Microwave Etiquette

At school today, we got out of class a little bit late at lunch, so I rushed with my lunch downstairs into the dungeon. We go down there because it is usually less busy than the lunch room upstairs, even though there is only one microwave in the dungeon (compared to 3 upstairs). Well because I got out late, there were already 3 people in front of me in line to use the microwave, so I just put my food down in line and went an sat until I saw the person before me put their food in. I walked over to casually check the amount of time I had to wait until I could at last heat up my leftovers. Well she had put her food in for FIVE minutes. Now, her food wasn't frozen, and it wasn't one of those premade lunches (aka Michalina's), just some rice and chicken with sauce or something that looked like that. So I went and sat down and commented (probably a little too loudly) "Who's food needs to be heated for 5 minutes?!?"

I was hungry, and we ONLY get 40 minutes for lunch, and by this time there was only 30 of those minutes left. So I went and sat 'patiently' until I saw her get up to go check on it, and I was excited because I had a leftover hamburger that I was REALLY looking forward to eating, and not to be redundant, I was hungry.

Well I think she had heard my previous comment about the FIVE minutes, and saw the excited/drooling expression on my face as I jumped up, and she proceeded to put it back on for THREE more minutes!! Is there not microwave etiquette?? And there were 3 more people in line after me still anxiously waiting to eat their delicious reheated leftovers. So I freaked out a little....I walked back to my table and said to my friends, loud enough for everyone to hear, "WHO NEEDS TO HEAT THEIR FREAKIN' FOOD FOR EIGHT MINUTES!!??"

So Trina and I sat there (her food was in line after mine), and we griped for the next 3 minutes. We came to the conclusion that she probably liked to burn her food before she ate it. Like really, who needs 8 minutes to heat food, on high in a microwave?? My hamburger was SO hot after ONE and a HALF minutes that I couldnt even touch it to put it on the bun....had to borrow Larissa's fork! *sigh* Some people really need to learn microwave etiquette!!! :þ