I Never Inhaled
April 29, 2015 This was ordered for a school competition called the Academic Decathlon:
;)
Or, as Wreckerators know it, "AcPec."
Now, I'd like to say that at least they spelled "capitalize" right, buuuut...
they didn't.
*sigh*
The following is a dramatization. The Wreck, however, is very real.
Bakery: "Yello!"
Jenny C.: "Hi, I'd like a cake with 'Happy Birthday' on it."
Bakery: "Sure! Anything else?"
Jenny C: [shaking head] "Just 'Happy Birthday'."
Bakery: "Okey dokey!"
;)
*sigh*
Two friends nicknamed Frizz and Kermit ask a baker to hold a blank cake for them while they finish their shopping. The baker agrees, and sticks a hold tag on the box.
What happened next? Only the Wrecker knows.
;)
"On hold regularly."
Well that clears things up.
*sigh*
And finally, Anda ordered a couple of cakes for a birthday party. To keep it simple, she asked for the same inscription on both. Which is exactly what she got.
;)
Yep, despite the fact that the Wreckerator wrote "bath," s/he actually did write the same thing on both.
I don't have a photo of the second cake, but Anda assures me it looked a lot like this:
;)
Really.
And the kicker?
The store refused to fix them.
Why?
Because - waaaait for it - that's what she asked for.
Really.
All together now: *sigh*
Kristy M., Jenny C., Ellen K., & Anda S., this post would make a great breathing exercise. :)
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Reader Comments (34)
Let me guess, the next Dumb & Dumber movie is going to be filmed in a bakery. Am I right?
They should have inhaled.
=^e.e^=
Happy Birthday on Both
Happy Birthday on Both
It's just what she asked for
Happy Birthday on Both
*head desk*
The human race has reached the pinnacle of evolution some time ago and is now moving BACKWARDS.
Refused to fix them because that's what she asked for.
Do they go to work on the short bus or WHAT???
Inhale and.......AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Ay yi yi yi yi!!!
Inspired by Cake #3:
Statler: "I can't believe I'm saying this, but that cake has something I want--to be regularly & on hold."
Waldorf: "But it's for Frizz & Kermit."
Statler: "Well, this show is enough to give anyone the wrecks."
Both: "A-hah-huh-hah!"
Anyone else miss that show?
The store refused to fix them and she still paid? Then she got exactly what she deserved.
"Just Happy Birthday". Some time back, I was stopped by one of those survey folks in the local mall. She asked me several questions, and wrote my answers verbatim. After I stopped talking, she would ask "Anything else?", and I would reply, "No, that's all".
And she would write on her paper, "No, that's all".
Apparently, she left that job and went to work in a bakery.
I find it hard to believe that the last wreckers have not yet heard of the "scrape off the extra words and throw a squiggle of icing on the smudge to disguise it" fix so beloved by bakers everywhere.
I want to know the bakery that refused to fix the cake!
I actually would have liked to get Number 2, because that's just my sense of humour.
I agree with Jennifer. That refusatorium needs to be outed.
I've always wondered if most bakeries fix their mistakes. Any idea how many, as a general percentage, do fix them?
Adding insult to injury, they didn't even spell "Frizz" correctly!
My guess for Friz and Kermit is that the bakery worker that agreed to hold the cake for them picked up the nearest piece of paper, which happened to be a cake order form, and wrote "On Hold Regularly..." (as opposed to some sort of special hold status I guess) then taped it to the top of the cake. Enter unsuspecting wreckerator #2, just tying to be helpful and fill orders by copying things verbatim without any sort of reading comprehension whatsoever, and voila! this cake is born.
@Bea:
Careful, there, ma'am! BOTH my princesses ride to school on the short bus (the big bus is just too much sensory input for a sane autistic to handle--& despite all appearances and my OWN mental state somedays, they're sane)
The ironic thing is I have not the least doubt either of them could have done a better job on any of these cakes :)
Cake #2 seems to ooze world weariness. "Happy birthday. Just... happy birthday." <walks away sighing>
I don't think a lot of the cakes with misspellings are professional cakes. They look to me like cakes someone picked up at the store and wrote in with decorating gel. They look like the ones I write with decorating gel! It's hard to tell a true wreck anymore. My daughter wanted a cake for passing a state board exam. She said to have them write "Congratulations or something like that." So, I had them write just that. It wasn't wreck, it's what I ordered.
Did you notice they dotted the U in underline?
The last set of cakes are literally identical, check out the curls. Is that actually even possible, or did someone send you double of the same picture by mistake?
Hi, I'm visiting by way of Nagzilla. The cakes are hilarious! Thanks for my laugh of the night.
I'd like to know the name of the store in Anda's case. The mistake is bad enough, but to refuse to fix it? I'd like to know the name of the place I'm going to avoid.
After looking very closely at the last example, they have the same swirls and even the exact same little 'jiggle' on the green one at the top. This has to be the same cake, just two pictures of it.
That's not two different cakes, that's just the same picture twice.
reminds me of the time I gave my e-mail address over the phone. It had an _ between my first and last name.
I never got the information requested because the company person I got wrote out "underscore"..
Really? I bet they also used "dot com".
If you'll read the narrative, it says clearly "I don't have a photo of the second cake, but Anda assures me it looked a lot like this:" I love this site!
I want to Like so many of these comments. Jen, John and your fans have brought me so much joy and laughter since you started this blog. Thank you.
Oh my god. I coach Aca Deca. I desperately want to order a cake like this for my kids. Hahahaha.
a lot of these have got to be folks who don't speak english well, trying to faithfully reproduce the original message as written - kind of a culture-shock mad lib
Doesn't anyone understand cursive writing? Is it a dying art? HOW can you POSSIBLY get bath, out of both, webmaster? Look at the last cake, it is definitely a cursive 'o' because cursive o's have a tail going through the top of the o. That o is a classic cursive o. Webmaster, please go back to school and learn how to write a cursive o. Here is an example of a cursive o: http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/cursive-o-third/ I notice on a more recent entry that you couldn't make out a cursive 'r' either. Is cursive really that much a dying penmanship?
I meant 4th photo, not last, sorry.
Lets order a cake for heather...hmmmm...what should it say?
I actually can't see right now im crying. HELP