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I time it right so that I can run towards “in slow motion” and pretend I’m stopping a bomb from going off, 1 second before it blows. My kid loves it. 🤷‍♂️

Almost always.

Only when microwaving something that might overflow… like oatmeal.

Aside from that… I want every last second of microwaving that I can get and beeping!

Only if I'm standing across the room and my brain calculates that the time it takes to close the distance is within the time remaining on the countdown and I get to do a badass flip, twirl, and slide to stop it just in the nick of time so I get to pretend I have super hero level reflexes.

I cannot do badass flips but the point still stands. I can twirl and slide though, as long as I'm wearing socks.

I have kids that I enjoy keeping asleep. There is no reason for that fucking beep to ever occur.

Me in the break room stopping the microwave before the beeps:

Here future microwave user, have these free nine seconds I'm leaving you.

Me finding the timer is not cleared when I want to use the microwave:

Ugh, now I have to press the reset button before I can enter the length of time to warm my lunch. Who was the accursed person who left time on here?

I used to stop my microwave a few seconds before it finished, like many others, due to the annoying unstoppable beeps. But then I got this smaller unit that happens to let out the faintest confirmation of doneness that I ever did, or rather almost didn’t, hear. I don’t mind it now.

I have this annoying microwave that beeps 5 times when it hits zero, even if I open the door in the middle of it. Kinda rude honestly

People who leave those few remaining seconds just hanging there for the next person to have to deal with are called “microdanglers.”

Someone at work does this and doesn't clear the remaining time. Pisses me off. Press the stop button for the love all that is holy. Look, I know it's petty.

No, unless I want to set it up for period shorter than what is available but that hardly ever happens.

I usually leave and come back when it beeps.

I have my microwave on silent so I actually prefer to let it finish so I don't need to press a button to clear those few seconds to have a useful clock back

It depends on how annoying a noise it will make if allowed to finish. I find it odd that the option to disable the beep on completion isn't common. There's rarely any urgency to remove what I just heated.

I hate the beep in every form so far, and I avoid using microwaves every chance I get.

It beeps 5 times if I don't. Super fuckin annoying, are those beeps.

Yes, regularly AND I leave the remaining time on the microwave. It's pure chaos over here.

The beep from the microwave hurts my ears. So I stop about 1 second before it beeps.

Only if I think I set it for too long.

No, if I wanted to microwave something for 57 seconds I'd put 57 seconds in. I don't practice brinksmanship

Microwaves stop by themselves? /j

No, my microwave has a nice chime instead of a beep

If you time it right, you can stop my microwave on 0. I also like to avoid making noise if I can. So every time I microwave anything it’s a little minigame for me.

Well yeah that's when the bomb goes off, gotta stop it

Yes, because of the stupid turntable. 1:30, the water isn't hot enough. 2:00, the water is too hot and cup is at the back of the oven. The right amount of time, for tap water, in the summer, is 1:47, that puts the water at the front of the oven at the right temp, but I don't want to punch in 1:47, so I just hit the 2 to start and run the oven for 2 minutes, and then pull the door open at 1:47. Also, no beep that way.

Commercial microwaves, like in a restaurant, have a row of numbered buttons that can be programmed for time and power setting. That's the best way to control a microwave.

Yes especially at night cuz I don't wanna wake up my parents and my sibling lol