There Apparently Were Decepticons In My Microwave
I was recently disconcerted to find out that I had Decepticons in my microwave. As you all remember, the Decepticons were the evil robots from the Transformers. You can imagine how concerned I was.
Out microwave recently stopped working. Well, it still appeared to work. The carousel rotated and the light lit up. The controls worked and so did the timer. There was even that little wind while it was going. However, nothing got hot. Unfortunately, this is the main point of a microwave.
My wife went looking online to see what the problem might be. She mentioned that it sounded like something that was called the megatron or something like that must have gone out. She wasn’t sure about the exact word. She couldn’t remember for sure.
Now, neither I nor my wife know much about microwaves other than they use microwaves and how to use them. We know not to put metal inside, but we don’t know what their parts are called. I felt sure it couldn’t be a megatron. I thought for certain it had to be magnetron or some other ‘M’ tron kind of word. Again, I know nothing about microwaves.
One thing we decided was that a new one would easily be cheaper than paying someone to try to fix our current one. Believe me, we would need a repair person. Since a new one like our old one started at about $200, a home visit from a repair person would already likely exceed that, much less considering the cost of parts, and then we’d still have an old microwave.
So, we went to buy a new one. While there, we told the salesperson what our old one had done. She said: “Oh, it sounds like your megatron went out.” Huh. Turns out my wife had remembered correctly. Turns out that Megatron (leader of the Decepticons) had been inside my microwave:
No wonder my microwave stopped working. Megatron was inside.
Of course, then I looked this up online myself. Turns out, the clerk was just as mistaken as my wife had been, though my wife knew she didn’t remember the word correctly. Megatron had never been inside my microwave. The problem was likely the magnetron after all.
