Little Sumo Girl

On most days, my parents and I have toasts for breakfasts…If you read my other post, you know that they get the good stuff (Skippy or Nutella) while I get to have ‘dry toast’ or “Vache qui rit…” cheese, which is actually really yummy – so I’ll stop complaining now!

But since arriving here in Bali, we noticed that the toaster takes an extremely long time to ‘toast’ the bread…When I say a ‘long time’, I mean almost an ‘eternity’… Five minutes in the toaster, and the bread still does not come out brown/golden even when set to maximum…We thought it may have something to do with the electricity, or perhaps the toaster was simply broken…

Well, we may have figured out the problem this morning! Mom had placed a few smaller pieces of bread into the toaster and one piece was just too small and got stuck. Poking through with a knife (Note that you must always unplug the toaster when doing this, as mom & dad have gotten a few shocks here in Bali) and turning the toaster upside down did not manage to get the piece of toast out. So the last option was to open the toaster from the bottom (like when you want to clean out all the accumulated bread crumbs from the toaster)

Well, guess what we found? It’s quite sad, but to our surpirse, we found a poor gecko that got ‘fried’ in the depths of our toaster. Who knows exactly what he was doing there? Maybe he was there to get slight tan, like people who go to tanning salons. And as he was relaxing with his eyes closed in the initial warmth of the toaster, he may not have realized that it was getting hotter and hotter in there and that the tip of his nose was starting to burn. By the time he realized what was occurring in his ‘spa’, it was probably already too late for him to make a speedy evacuation from the toaster. The poor thing! All people who go to tanning salons should take heed – these rooms heat up pretty fast, and by the time you feel the heat/burn, it may already be too late – Result: Orange skin (not so bad compared to our ‘toasted friend’ here, but is it really the look you’re going for?)

In the end, we finally got our little piece of toast out…Who knows, perhaps the toaster will start working properly tomorrow now that it’s been ‘cleaned out’!