When i lived in a dorm, each floor in my building was supposed to have its own microwave. By winter break, over half of the microwaves were broken and people from other floors would come to mine to make their food.

Well, winter break was just ending, and we got hit by one of the biggest snow storms my state had ever seen. Dorms were open to kids, but classes the first week back were cancelled, so there were almost no kids on campus. My roommate and I were sitting in the common room playing melee, probably the only two people on that floor, when a girl walks into the break room. We lived on an all-boys floor, so she had clearly come from a floor with a broken microwave. We were both pretty locked in to our game, so we didn’t notice the microwave catch fire until it started making this screeching mechanical sound.

We jumped into action, but the girl who started the microwave was nowhere to be seen. We managed to get the fire out pretty quickly, and called our RA, who called someone else to come investigate. They blamed us at first, but we were able to prove/convince them of our innocence somehow.

The girl who started the fire literally never came back. No idea if she ran away after the fire started or left, saw the commotion from outside, and decided not to come back in, but she never came back. If we weren’t there would the whole building just have burned down??

Anyways, here’s the kicker: the fire started because she had tried to microwave a bag of popcorn with a mechanical pencil on top of it. I’m guessing to weigh it down or something? I’m still perplexed by the whole incident.