Ashes to ashes

I almost blew up my workplace yesterday.

I was trying to toast some bread and stupidly placed a paper plate by mistake inside the toaster.

Four minutes later the resulting smell was not that of bread but of burnt paper. Thankfully, I had stopped it in time. Should it have been toasted for a couple more minutes it would've caught in flames, I presume.

I couldn't stop laughing at my own stupidity for a good 30 minutes after that.