Fish Story

T is out of town again - he left Wednesday morning before sane people are up, and just a couple of hours after I went to bed.

He leaves on Wednesday mornings because he has to be in the office on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.

On office days, I pack him dinner to take along (he works from four to midnight), usually a sandwich, some chips, a few cookies - you know, standard lunch/dinner-at-the-office fare. Once in a while, though, I pack him leftovers from the previous night's meal...especially on Tuesday, when he missed dinner on Monday and it's something I know he'd like.

Monday this week, I cooked a bit of salmon for dinner - and by "bit", I mean half a sockeye caught wild in Alaska. Mmm. While T has tastes that often run to Krystal burgers and whatever's on the dollar menu at the local drive-through, he does like my cooking enough to eat things he wouldn't have before we met - including salmon, and new potatoes with dill-butter.

Since he missed dining with us Monday, I packed it for his Tuesday dinner and gave him the usual microwave re-heating instructions - heat for thirty seconds at a time, turn over, repeat until food is warm enough for you, enjoy.

It usually works just fine.

Usually.

On Tuesday night, though, something went horribly (and hilariously) wrong. All I can say is, it's a good thing that T works alone in the evening.

He set things in motion, thirty seconds at a time, and left the room for a moment to check on...whatever.

Boom.

No kidding. Boom.

Apparently, I packed him a loaded fish.

Yep. It exploded. All over the interior of the microwave. With a boom.

He said he ran into the room thinking the microwave had exploded or something.

Heh.

It was fine, just redecorated with a salmon-pink interior!

He called me and wanted to know why I didn't warn him, but honestly? I've never exploded anything in a microwave. I don't use them often - just to re-heat the occasional meal when I'm in too much of a hurry for the oven or stovetop, and to make popcorn.

I'm kinda sorry I missed it.