Black is the new WHITE!!

I woke up a bit late last weekend owing to a "cocktail" of cocktails I had had from the previous nights/early morning festivities. I distinctly remember the cab pull over a block before my address and went on to empty out the contents of my stomach including that brilliant Martini with 3 olives which I had quaffed down at 0430.

I was late on a Saturday morning. Brush my teeth, shower, and breakfast; pack my kit bag to head to the important league game in Holland!!! I wasn't a spectator, I was playing. – "Damn where are my cricket whites??? SHIT!! They're still in the washer from the night before. I need to get them dry ASAP… what do I do?"

- A humongous light bulb went on in my head; it even made that "kling" sound! "Just bung it in the Microwave you dimwit!!"

In go the whites, these are the "quick dry" 100% nylon version whites, 2 mins should do the job. There they go. I turn away to go brush my teeth. The strong smell of burnt toast greets me in a bit!! Alarm bells are ringing.. I don't have a toaster!! I don't even have bread!! What the hell is burning? A cursory look in the direction of the kitchen reveals no smoke that could be responsible for the smell, "Must be the neighbour" I say to myself.
Feeling well refreshed after the mint rinse, I return to the kitchen to a debilitating smell of carbon!!! I open the doors and windows to the balcony before I go about looking for the source of the smell. "Oh darn it, just leave everything open and the smell should go away in a bit, lets get that bag packed to head out"

Open the microwave…. Where are my whites?? All I got is a lump of BLACK!! Charcoal BLACK!!! I know that Black is the new white and all that.. but my white cricket pants lay there in one ugly lump of BLACK!!!... I did venture to pick it up and bring it out with very high hopes of being able to salvage a pocket or something out of it. But of course the microwave had had a field day with it. I brought out a really old pair of whites from '98 and decided to look like Michael Jackson in white pants and a HUGE arse and play a game of cricket !!!

I recounted the story to my team mates and one of the lads said, "Were you hungover, 'cause that is exactly the kind of stuff people do, when they wake up hungover!!!" There is no wisdom that can come to you without experience you know!!!

Lesson of the day: Do not believe that you have had a brilliant idea when you're hungover and do not try to dry nylon clothes in a Microwave.