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- From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Burnt Popcorn Peeve
- Followup-To: alt.peeves
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 22:23:40 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
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- Have you ever noticed that whenever you burn microwave popcorn at the
- office, people come from miles around to comment on it?
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- I stuck some popcorn in the microwave across the hallway a few minutes
- ago, then got sidetracked with an urgent but essentially boring issue.
- So by the time I got back to the coffee-and-junk-food room, the micro-
- wave was beeping and my bag of popcorn had just started to scorch. It
- was still quite edible, but the smell started spreading as soon as I
- opened the package. It hasn't been five minutes, and already five
- passersby have stuck their heads into my office to joke about it.
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- I wonder why it is that people feel this is a significant enough event,
- in the greater scheme of things, that they must not only devote
- valuable cogitation time to it, but verbal comment as well? People will
- materialize out of the woodwork like wraiths, when the building seemed
- virtually empty shortly before. It reminds me of the equally peevesome
- way that people feel compelled to jokingly ask, "Hey, wanna do mine next?"
- whenever they see someone washing his car.
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- Geoff
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