Evil Appliances

So I'm sitting here waiting for a repairman to magically appear "sometime between the hours of 8:00am and 12:00pm, however we are experiencing delays in your area so it may be after 12:00pm" and thinking about how evil electrical appliances are. First of all, they think nothing of consuming all that energy. They can burn you, shock you, flood your basement, blow up, fry your hair....the list goes on and on. So why do we take them in and give them good homes? Well, it would be hard to live without them. Personally, taking my laundry down to the pond and pounding it with a rock is not my idea of a good time.
Yeah, so here I sit.......with a dead microwave. My husband put a piece of chicken on a plate one night, popped it into the microwave and suddenly.....ZIIIIIIP SSSSST POWIE!! Dead microwave. Being the understanding wife that I am, I immediately yelled, "DID YOU LEAVE A FORK ON THAT PLATE?"
Thing is, we purchased this appliance 15 months ago and had it installed by the contractor who redid our kitchen. The wiring was inspected (I have the certificate to prove it!) so I didn't think that was the problem. I contacted the company that made the oven (begins with an "S") and their first response was, "Oh, I'm sorry. You didn't purchase the extended warranty." EXCUSE ME? I paid all that money for a microwave destined to exist for just over a year?? I had this sudden vision of evil little people with pointy hair and squinty eyes sitting in front of special "warranty screens," just waiting for those one year warranties to expire. "Hey, Nerdy, look at this! The Haydens didn't buy the extended warranty." Dorky, "Hee! Hee! Hee!! Let's fry 'em!" Nerdy, "No, let's give 'em an extra 2 months. You know, nuke 'em by surprise!" And 2 months later, they press the red button and KABOOM! There goes Karleen's microwave. Maybe those noises I heard coming from the microwave weren't really frying noises - maybe they were the high-pitched laughter of evil warranty elves.
Meanwhile, I'm using my back-up microwave - a little thing manufactured by GE about 10 years ago and hauled from dorm room to dorm room by my 3 daughters! It's been used and abused and hidden under beds and stuffed in closets to avoid detection by RA's and fire inspectors. "Hey, I know! Let's put it under the bed! I bet they'll NEVER look there!" College kids. But I digress.....That little microwave has taken a lickin' and kept on tickin' and I made no bones about informing the people from the "S" company about that!! I told them that I would never, ever recommend their company to anyone. After some hemming and hawing and checking with supervisors in India and Mexico and Mars, they finally agreed to give me a FREE EXTENDED WARRANTY! Be still my heart. And they sent a repair guy, too!! Who informed me that it was factory defective and he would order the parts and I could call when they arrived and he'd come back and fix the evil appliance. 
So here I sit with a box full of microwave parts. Waiting. 8:00am to 12:00pm. With delays in my area. Sigh.............I think I'll cook a hotdog over the fire for lunch.