'No one ever admitted to [it]': Clueless rich kids take shortcut, cause school evacuation in the middle of the night

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 28, 2024 3:00 PM EST

For some teens, college is the first time they're out on their own, and it really shows. It's the first big step towards independence for many kids. After years of living with their parents, college freshmen suddenly realize they have to fend for themselves. 

A lot of colleges make this as easy as possible for the new students, especially for those who choose to live in a dorm. There's usually a nice cafeteria where they can get hot meals, and many colleges provide laundry on-site. Plenty of dorms have shared kitchen spaces for students who want to make some late-night ramen noodles. And since these spaces are designed for people of all walks of life, there are usually signs with warnings about how to use the appliances. 

No matter how many safety meetings are held or how many signs are posted, there are always a few teens who cannot figure things out. There's always at least one person who pours half a bottle of detergent into a washer, and then wonders why it's overflowing with bubbles. You might get a kid who has no idea how to cook the aforementioned ramen noodles, and cooks them for so long that the water evaporates and scorches the food. These well-meaning but clueless kiddos can really wreak some havoc if they're not supervised… just like the students in the story below. 

Next up, read this story of a Florida couple who just wanted to improve their roofs, only to encounter an HOA with a vendetta. 

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    Things Not To Microwave XL I randomly remembered this tonight and realized I had to share. The culprits were never identified, but around '95, I was in a dorm at Drury College, in Missouri. It had a lot of people who were on the wealthy side, and the rest were almost all there on academic scholarships. We
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    can assume these people (rumor has that there were two) were one of the first kind or one of the second kind that is brilliant with zero common sense. My dorm was three stories with a big basement, and laundry facilities in the basement. Each floor had a central room with cinderblock walls, a concrete floor, fire sprinklers, a metal counter with a sink in it, and a microwave nearby. It also contained the big trash cans; metal, with lids. This was where
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    you went to microwave your bag of popcorn, throw the empty bag away, and then wash your hands and whatever you'd cook ramen in earlier. It was idiot-proof, even had a fire extinguisher on the wall. They were prepared for all sorts of drunk college shenanigans with the microwave. So we all thought.
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    One night, we were all yet again rousted out of bed for a fire alarm. But this time, there really WAS a fire. Someone had wet towels, and didn't want to go downstairs to dry them. Maybe they were short quarters and didn't want to borrow two, maybe they were just in a hurry. So they microwaved the towels. This worked until the towels began smoking.
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    Now, college students do dumb stuff, it's part of being young, but there was a metal sink RIGHT THERE. Did they drop the towels in it and turn on the water? Nope! Floor is concrete, did they drop the towels there? If you guessed Nope, I have a prize for you! That would have just resulted in a little smoke and a scorched mark on the floor where they pulled out and dropped the smoldering towels on the concrete. But nooo... These young geniuses
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    went above and beyond on deciding what to do with their smoking towels! They threw them out INTO THE HALLWAY. The carpeted hallway. Surrounded by sleeping students. Apparently as the towels spread out, the air reached the smoldering parts and the cotton started burning really well. Lots of smoke, and there goes the alarm.
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    Cue some panic as they opened their doors to actual smoke. Good news is that the source of the fire was really, really obvious to the girls on that floor and actual panic was limited.
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    Thankfully the dorm evacuated, someone other than Kevina the Towel Bandit put out the fire, and we eventually got to return. We could smell the burned carpet in the entire building for days. No one every admitted to being the Kevina who chose a carpeted
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    hallway over a big metal sink in a fire-proof room after they'd microwaved their wet towels into smoldering ruin. I was told it was two girls, apparently Kevina and Kevinna had one brain cell between them and they'd left it in the microwave.
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    One commenter had another great story to share

    Mallardguy5675322. Speaking of microwaves, short story from me. I was the Kevin in this one. I had picked up a package of cheese spiral(a kind of Greek cheese pie) and it said bake in the oven for thirty minutes. You see, my oven and microwave are on top of each other, and they
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    correspond with each other. The microwave has multiple settings, but the two important ones are: Time entry and Timer. So, I go ahead, preheat the oven to 480° and put the spiral in there in a baking tray, and set the time to 30 minutes and went about my day. About 25 minutes later, I was upstairs doing homework when I smelled something
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    horrible: the smell of burned plastic. And yet, it didn't come with the scent of char that a true fire would come from. So I went outside my room and instantly scrunched up. The smell of burned plastic was EVERYWHERE, and my house (technically my parents house as the place is relatively close to my college such that I don't need to rent) house is two
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    stories tall. Medium sized house, but not too large. So I go downstairs and there is a nasty smelling steam in the room so bad that I had to go grab my dad's paint spraying gas mask to even think of continuing. I opened our sliding door and all the windows just to rid the house of the smell. Then, my blood went cold as I figured out what was happening.
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    The microwave was on. Instead of setting a Timer on, I had turned the microwave on via time entry: FOR THIRTY MINUTES!!!!. When I opened the infernal thing, a rush of steam flew out the thing, going everywhere-- after the fact, it turned out the burned plastic smell and steam had come from the microwave door: I had cooked the plastic rim
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    on that door to a melted perfection-- all over the room. Fortunately, the smell in the house disappeared after just a few hours, but the microwave continued to stink for 6 months after the incident. No, I don't have Cancer, thanks for asking. And the cherry on top: my spiral got burned because I didn't want to irradiate my food.
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    And that is the story of how I nuked my microwave. TLDR: pay attention to which microwave setting you put on. Or just use phone timer.
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