My old kitchen clock ran backwards for an afternoon

It happened last Tuesday, right after a brief power flicker. The second hand started ticking counter-clockwise, and the digital display on the microwave read 8:17 for over an hour. Has anyone else had an appliance just decide to break the rules of time like that?

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julia6226mo ago

Power flickers mess with cheap electronics all the time. It's just a weird glitch, not some time travel event. The clock probably reset to a default setting or the motor got a jolt. These things are built with the cheapest parts possible. It's a funny story, but it's not that deep. Your microwave holding a number is just a failed display.

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phoenixgonzalez6mo ago

But what if the glitch is the time travel, like a ripple effect?

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mia_park6mo ago

Seriously, it's just a broken clock. Those things glitch out all the time (mine shows 88:88 sometimes). We don't need to invent time travel to explain a cheap part failing.

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