Dear Self,
Blindly trusting your microwave autocook settings is not always (or usually, for that matter) a good idea. Making excuses for the absurd cook times by telling yourself things like, "Oh, maybe Autocook has set a lower power level" or "Well, I don't want an undercooked potato" is a silly idea, especially when the kitchen starts to smell like burning and fills with smoke. Maybe if you had done it yourself, or been more alert and stopped the microwave earlier, your apartment would not smell like it was blowtorched, and the potato that looks like it reentered the atmostphere after orbiting the earth would not be sitting in the sink on a burn-stained plate. That's all.
Love,
Nutmeg
