Best Living - Community Manager's blog

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Trying to slow down my ever tech life, a friend gave me an old-fashioned, fireplace popcorn popper for the holidays.  So after years of having microwaved or movie popcorn, I tried to pop popcorn in my fireplace with it.  It was quite the adventure.  First, the popcorn popper (which is not sold at Best Buy) was difficult to put together.  I had to drill its wood topper just so I could get a screw in to hold it to the top of the popper.  I oiled up the popper and put in popcorn kernels.  Within a couple of minutes I heard the first "Pop!"  It was bit challenging holding the heavy popper in the fire.  I had to gently rock it from side to side to get the popcorn to pop evenly.  After a plethora of popping sounds, I decided to take it out of the fire. 

The natural popcorn was a nice change from microwave and movie popcorn.  I added a little sour cream and onion popcorn seasoning and feasted on my hard labor.  Afterward when I began to clean up I realized the popcorn popper's bottom was melting black paint on to the floor.  I cleaned up and put the popper in the kitchen.  It then got black paint on the stove and popcorn bowl. 

Consequently, I've decided to use the popcorn popper as a decoration. It was nice to try the low-tech way of making popcorn, but I missed my microwave.  Come to think of it, I think I will go pop myself a bag now.

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I love this story. It gave me a good laugh to start my day.

Thanks for sharing it!

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LOL! I read this to my husband.  You are so silly!