Home Ec.
Home Economics. Making food that tastes bad.

I can't remember what we were cooking, but I remember we were working in twos. We had to warm up our plates.

'Put your plates on the hob to warm them up' announces the teacher to class.

Me and my compadre look at each other. She did say 'hob' didn't she? How odd. Surely you warm plates in the oven. Still, she's the teacher and knows these things.

We put the plates on the hob, and bung the heat on full.

Five minutes later...BANG! Plate one explodes, shrapnel flying across the room. Teacher locks on to us - 'you boys! What are you thinking of?!'

BANG!
Plate two explodes, fragments embedding themselves in the wall.

Teacher goes mental. 'You idiot boys, why are your plates on the hob?'

'Er, we thought it rather strange, but that's what you SAID!'

'Don't be so stupid..!' At this point, seeing the rage of our teacher, all the other groups are surreptisously turning the heat off on their hobs, and breaking out the oven gloves and removing their plates...

Teacher notices this. You can see the mental cogs whirring - 'shit, I must have said 'hob'...'

'Er, Don't do it again!'

'Righto miss.'
(inflateable, Sun 16 Aug 2009, 22:01, Reply)