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"I was trying to make a kind of romantic holiday dinner for me and my girlfriend, so I decided to cook a lobster. I'm 26, and growing up my family never cooked lobsters, as they were too expensive. I have had them in restaurants before but this was my first time cooking one myself.

I bought a couple really nice, live lobsters, and I kept them in buckets with water until I was ready to cook them. I was planning on researching cooking methods, but some stuff came up with work and I kind of forgot about the lobster. My GF was coming over soon, so I just decided to microwave them, one at a time, and put butter and lemon on them later and serve on some rolls. That just seemed like the easiest way, and I thought the lobster would be knocked out and killed pretty quickly in the microwave.

My GF came over as I was putting the first lobster in the microwave. I just put it on a plate and stuck it in for a couple minuted. It didn't go well - the lobster made a whistling noise, then a few bumping noises, then it exploded in my microwave. It was disgusting, and my girlfriend got really upset. She left my apartment crying after she called me a bunch of names and swear words. She said that I "tortured him," but he was a lobster, not a person, and I was just trying to make a nice dinner. I texted my best friend about it after and he asked what was wrong with me, even though I had no idea you couldn't microwave it.

Right now I'm sitting in my kitchen, my microwave is probably destroyed, and I have another lobster sitting in a bucket. Everyone is pissed off at me, but I don't think I did anything wrong. I don't know why they expect me to be some sort of pro seafood chef. My GF won't respond to my messages, either. It was totally unintentional and I think they're being very rude and unfair. AITA?"

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