I work with a lot of dangerous things. Sharp knives, 350 degree grease, pots and pots of boiling water, PMSing waitresses, just to name a few. I get cut, burnt, yelled at quite a bit by the listed. However never did I think that I would recieve injury from pasta. The sad part was, it wasn't hard pasta that you know, you could maybe jab someone with or something. It was cooked pasta.. I didn't hurt myself cooking the pasta, or burn myself stirring it or anything like that, in fact, I was eating it. Yes, it was about that time at newicks where everyone just sits around and asks themselves 'What should I make to eat' ... and the answer to that question for me was pasta. Boy was that a mistake. Little did I know the noodles had it out for me. I began heating up the spahghetti, prepared some marinara sauce and some cheese, it looked delicious... but then it turned deadly. I began eating, sucking it in, slurping it down. It was great. Then it happened. You know how when you suck a noodle in, it kind of twirls and flips around like a propeller or something? Well I was sucking in a really long noodle and things went terribly wrong. The end of the noodle dashed upwards with lightning speed and cracked me in the eye ball like a whip. Not only did it sting, but the noodle had marinara sauce all over it, so it kind of burned my eye as well. Teary eyed and in pain I grabbed the nearest cloth and held it to my eye. James and Dave the two people near by just laughed at me... but had they experienced the noodle whip to the eyeball, I bet they wouldn't be laughing, nope.... not at all.

  posted by Darrell @ 5:10 PM