Under The Microwave…

I recently did some serious housecleaning, which I don’t do all that often. And I have never moved the microwave. I mean, I’ve pushed it a little this way or that to get to the outlet behind it or retrieve the pencil that rolled under it or whatever. But I had never picked it up and moved it off the counter. This is mostly because I figured that area of the counter was pretty well protected. It’s always covered, right? Nothing had spilled and run underneath it, I hadn’t lost anything under it. We’re not talking about a toaster oven, which is a couple yards down the counter. Crumbs are going to be all over that thing, you expect that. But what could be under a microwave?

It was the dirtiest part of the counter. There were tons of crumbs. Now, I expect that from the toaster oven, but the microwave? I don’t even know what they were crumbs from. I can’t imagine how they got there. Seriously. I do not put anything with crumbs into the microwave. I do not make sandwiches or deal with anything crumb-y in that space. What, did the crumbs migrate over from the toaster oven? That seems to me as plausible an explanation as any. Ah, well. I guess it’s just one of those imponderables, like where the other sock went.