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SPOOF: Don’t fall asleep with your microwave!

Microwaves cook our meals, keep our time, make phone calls, scan and interpret our Internet history, store our music, create social media posts on our behalf, and do just about everything else. But did you know that microwaves don’t like being coddled? An angry microwave is more likely to steal your identity — seventeen microwaves were convicted of doing just that in 2015 alone! Your microwave is warm, but it isn’t a teddy bear: keep it strapped to your back where it was designed to be!

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