popcorn

I am incapable of making an appropriate amount of popcorn.  Every time I make it I tell myself, “okay self, now last time you overflowed the pot, you don’t need all that popcorn, it just hung around for a week and you threw it away.  DO NOT cover the whole bottom!”  But I always do.  And even when i know there’s always too much in there, I figure, hey! a couple more won’t hurt right? 

So now, I sit with my normal sized bowl of popcorn, and a gigantic pot of it spontaneously popping those lonely un-popped kernels looming in the background.

Seriously, how is this a problem of mine?  I’m a grown woman, I should know how to pop a normal amount of popcorn.

Shit, I left it on the burner and it’s burning.... shit shit shit!