Impatiently Baking Bread
17 seconds that make me wait instead
of pulling out the freshly baking bread
that looks as ready as when the timer beeps
but someone long before me insists that it keeps
on baking until the timer finally beeps
and leaves me with a 40 minute loaf of bread
I wish was 39, 43 instead.
BonjourPoetry 
I bet you open the microwave when there is 3 seconds left. I admit, I am often guilty of the same.
curious thing you bring up… I open the microwave early for the purpose of silencing the beep. I don’t really pull stuff out of the oven early though. I wait for the beep and then pull.