CASSIDY JANE’S BLOG

As a first-year college student, I lived off microwaved stuff this year. Microwaves, rock. Period.

I recall being a wee little kid, nonchalantly standing in front of the microwave, completely innocent of its horrors.

“Get away from that, you’ll get cancer!” my grandmother shrieked on one occasion.

Experience generally limits the average six-year-old’s perception of cancer. Though I had absolutely no idea what cancer involved, the word evoked sheer terror to me. I wanted nothing to do with it.

So, I spent the next few years steering clear of active microwave ovens. I’d pop something in, press start, then scurry away until a full 10 seconds after it finished cookin’.

After a semester alone in a 9X9 cracker box of a room with the microwave running for a good twenty minutes or so a day, I think I’ve been exposed to enough microwave radiation to haphazardly mutate the cells of all my major organs, then send them into an absolute frenzy of replications, if indeed microwaves are really capable of all this. I stopped fearing the microwave after elementary school, but sometimes I wonder… What if?

Anyway, this whole blog stemmed from this:

friend: microwaves were originally designed to be weapons, lol
me: omg that is so weird lol
friend: the waves that is, lol, not the devices. my mass comm prof told me this and the docu reminds me of it
friend: according to my prof, chocolate was left in a room that was exposed to the waves and when it was discovered it melted, they changed the blueprints
me: hmmm
friend: haha, yeah. when i was little, anytime i’d pass by an microwave in use, i’d duck so the rays wouldn’t hit me, lol
me: lol i pretty much did the same thing
friend: lol, good then. i wasn’t the only one, ha
me: at first i was nonchalant
me: but…
me: then my grandmother freaked me out
me: so i kinda steered clear
friend: lol, the news is what affected me. i used to be terrified of watching it
friend: i wanted to be blissfully ignorant before i even knew what that meant

So, microwaves stemmed from radioactive weapons testing? Creepy. Too, too creepy.