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All I could think about is who has a microwave that beeps while it's still cooking?
maybe it's carbon monoxide detector going off, it would make more sense
Mine does if I use the defrost setting. I assume it wants me to rearrange the contents, but when it beeps the contents are still one solid chunk of ice. It doesn't make sense, especially for a device that claims to have a "smart" sensor.
It's a bit like the excerpt. It feels like someone is trying to rewrite the American Psycho routine, but it hammers the obsessive compulsive tropes with all the subtlety of a brick to the face while simultaneously lacking an overall purpose. It's just noise.
I had the thought, that maybe the author could be intentionally trying to be mind-numbingly boring, but that just killed it. Into the slop jail!
I mean maybe it's poorly worded and there's only one set of beeps at the end. But then why would the protagonist be reminded multiple times?
Unless she's remembering all the times in the past that microwaving bland chicken reminded her of the world being orderly?
But now I think I'm thinking too deeply about microwaves.