Good Idea...bad results...Stiff Neck Nearly Caused Fire!

Wow...I woke up with a really stiff neck on Saturday morning....I didn't do anything to 

cause it on Friday, so attributed it to sleeping with my head off/on the pillow, having no 

pillow or I just plain "slept wrong"....whatever....happens sometime.

By Monday it was really bothering me, aspirin and Ibuprofen wasn't helping...so decided

 to put heat on it (yeah, wrong, should have iced it) Anyway, I rolled up a hand towel and

 popped it into the microwave for a minute to warm up.

It did a nice job of warming and it felt great on my stiff neck.

Ken was reading the morning paper, looked up and said "are you cooking something?" 

By then, I could smell something.....actually it smelled pretty good...a little like bacon. 

Then I saw a wisp of smoke float past my nose.

I took the towel off my neck and noticed that I had burned a spot on it. When I unrolled 

the towel, there was a smoldering fire in the middle...it was round, about the size of a

 dime and looked like a cigarette burn....the edges were red and smoking. When the 
towel was unrolled, it exposed the smoldering area to air, and wham, bang, I had a little 
fire in my towel.

I had absolutely no idea that the microwave would cause the center of the towel to 

catch on fire. I suppose that's how food cooks, from the inside out.

A little longer and it could have burst into flame, caught my hair on fire, and do some 

serious damage. At it was, I smelled like a bonfire ....