Archive for January, 2006
The toaster that took over the world
A Tefal Avanti Toaster
It was the week before Christmas when my toaster passed away.
Nursing a rather extreme hangover, I had located the kitchen and instinctively placed two slices of bread into the toaster in readiness for a breakfast of champions. As I blundered from the kitchen trying to locate first the bathroom, then my shoes, the sudden protest launched by the smoke alarm in the hallway indicated the toaster’s sudden demise.
My toaster, my provider of bread-based succour was now heating at a temperature normally associated with the surface of the sun. How was I supposed to spread the margarine when there was a huge hole burnt through the centre of the bread?