Popcorn will never taste the same. Ever. Again.

Tonight, there were 2.2 mins that were so full of win, it was EPIC!
I've never popped stove-popped popcorn before, at least it was never me that popped it.  When I was little, before we got a air-popped popcorn popper, Friday night was POPCORN NIGHT! Dad would stand by the stove, for the first and only time all week, and make popcorn.  Sometimes, if we were good, we got popcorn on Saturdays too, but we had to be really REALLY good.
In Saskatoon, I'm lucky enough to be the proud owner of a hot-air popcorn popper (circa 1994, it was my Gramma's before she moved into the nursing home), so popcorn is a regular snack around here, but only air-popped corn.....UNTIL TONIGHT!
I got adventurous but didn't quite know what I was doing, so I did what every kid who's moved away from home does, I phoned home to ask Dad for instructions on how to make popcorn on the stove.  Turns out he was at a meeting (typical) so Mom helped me out instead, which is almost as good....almost.
I put just enough oil to cover the bottom of the pot, and just enough corn so that it's covered in oil.  Mom's advice, "Don't forget to shake it, or it'll burn".  2.2 minutes of shaking later I have a wonderful pot full of delicious popcorn.  I wasn't sure if it all had popped or not, so I lifted up the lid ever-so-slightly, and to my delight and amazement, I had put in EXACTLY enough corn so that it didn't push the lid up (Dad was always worried about the lid lifting up because it was right at eye level for us kids.  AHHH, oil in the eyes!!).  I was so amazed, I did a little victory dance, too bad I was by myself and Chaos was sleeping, so no one saw it....but there was dancing! (If you have a victory dance and there's no one to see it, is there still a victory???)
A second victory dance followed when I dumped the popcorn in a bowl and I didn't burn any of it.
I'm not quite at the bottom of the bowl by this point (but my keyboard and trackpad have a certain glisten :P) so I can't say how many un-popped kernels there are, but hey, even if there's lots, I'll be more than satisfied.  I didn't get oil in my eyes!

...and no I didn't butter my popcorn...oil gives it enough flavor....it's delicious...