Crashing My Stove

It's a well-known fact among my friends that I'm an absolute loser in the kitchen. So tonight I decided to prove them all wrong and to cook for myself. I bought some store-made pasta (tortellini with beef and red wine - a poor choice, as it turns out, because last night I consumed an overabundance of red wine while having dinner with friends - nevertheless, I soldiered on) and some tomato sauce (spouse is insisting I try to eat more vegetables - I thought this was a clever choice). Anyway, I carefully read the instructions, filled a pot with water, got it boiling, added salt and the pasta, set the stove timer and retired to the living room and my laptop.

I waited and waited and thought it funny that time was not fleeting and eventually went in to the kitchen to find my pasta mush. Turns out, I'd managed to crash the stove's computer and it was stuck on 4:48. Last week, I nearly set the place on fire (a dishwasher incident).

(Edit to add: Oh dear, how even-more embarrassing...turns out as I sit here 5 hours later, with my stove beeping in the background, that perhaps I was hasty in posting this - it could be that I'd inadvertently and without knowing, set the timer for 5 hours instead of for 5 minutes as was my intent - in my defense though, there was an hour glass that made it appear the stove had crashed.)

(a further Edit to add: Days later I've discovered that the hour glass means that the timer is working - silly me, a Mac person, used to Windows machines crashing - I just assumed that the timer in this case meant that the stove had crashed)