Need a chuckle?

[Kelly]

Here's something that I thought would make some of you laugh.

Over the weekend, I was making what I planned to be a great dinner - the first "real" Sunday dinner in weeks. My husband was down in the basement working on a project and making a whole lot of noise. I heard a muffled bang and asked him if he was OK - he looked at me kind of funny and said he was fine. 20 minutes later, I heard the same noise again. Again, I checked on him & got the same response. Then it was dinner time. I opened the oven and discovered that the baked potatoes I put in for dinner had exploded - There were potato fragments all over the oven! (Turns out the bangs were the potatoes blowing up!) I got a really good laugh out of the whole thing; I haven't had that happen to me in years.

[This message has been edited by Kelly (edited 11-14-2000).]

[emilycat]

Oh, my gosh, I think I would have cried...then laughed. Why did your potatoes do that?
I can't really talk, though... two years ago, I blew up a pyrex bowl when I put it on the stove...yeah, you're not supposed to do that...

[Kelly]

I'm not sure why they exploded this time. I stabbed them several times with a fork before I put them in, but I must not have stabbed them enough. The whole thing was just too comical to cry over. Here I was thinking my husband got hurt and it was really my potatoes blowing up.

I always wondered if the pyrex bowls would explode - I guess they really do.