Occasionally, I eat breakfast here at work. Usually, I order scrambled eggs with veggies and cheese. And, usually, it only takes the cook 30 seconds to grill my order.

When the cook sees me coming, she cracks two eggs into a stainless steel bowl, adds some milk and then takes a whisk to the contents. Once they are whipped up, she dumps them onto the griddle, throws in some veggies and cheese and then cooks them for 30 seconds.

Well, the other morning, she followed her usual routine but when she dumped the milk and egg mixture on to the grill, she noticed a whole egg yolk staring back at her.

Not to be deterred from her 30 second cook time, she picked up the spatula and whacked the yolk with the edge of the spatula. Then she hit it two more times. And finally, after she stared at it for a  few seconds, she gave it one last death blow.

With a big smile on her face, she then proceeded to add the veggies and cheese to the mixture.

Lizzie Borden would have been proud.