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I love Wednesdays because I don’t get home until late because I do the church thing right after work and have to speed through the streets of Denver to get there on time. We watched a video about the people in Tibet and there was a scene in which a guy was cooking popcorn on the street and tapping the metal pot with a stick and all of the sudden….
KABOOM! Steam and smoke everywhere. And the happy music went on through the transition to another scene of Tibet and the people. The movie never told us what happens to all the popcorn makers on the streets of Tibetan cities and if they live or die. I suspect limbs may be lost once or twice. Maybe it’s like the Mafia or something. The Tibetan Popcorn Mafia. We had several classes that rotated and each time the scene happened I laughed.
It was wrong to laugh but it was just an odd thing to see in a documentary movie like that without an explanation.
Winter is closing in and I thought I saw snow tonight as I drove into my apartment complex but I could be seeing things. The Rubber Cement smell is gone from yesterday but I think I lost a few brain cells in the process. I’m ready for the weekend because then I’m out of training and on Monday I start doing my real job.
As for the popcorn exploding, it looked something like this only lots more steam, smoke and exploding sounds.
Chinese popcorn vendors all use the same kind of contraption; it’s like a pressure cooker that pops all the kernels at once. When I lived there, we looked forward to hearing the explosion in the distance; fair warning to run out for a snack. Which they sprinkle with sugar, like kettle corn.
I’m hungry now. Dang it.
Also, that’s pretty awesome!