True story involving the destruction of a microwave - many years ago when microwaves were a new and expensive gadget and few people knew anything about them, a nice new microwave was installed at great expense in the canteen in the business where my uncle worked at the time. One day, he was a bit late for his tea break and everyone else had left and the pot of tea was a little cold, so not knowing any better, he thought he'd heat it up in the new-fangled microwave thingy, so he placed the stainless steel tea pot in it, switched it on and left the room and went to the toilet while he was waiting for the tea to heat up....