Stop. Helping.
August 22, 2017 It's only natural, I know. You see all the wreckage on this blog and you think, "Ok, but surely I can keep my order from being wrecked, right? I mean, all I have to do is help the baker out a little!
"Why, if I just spell it out clearly, military style..."
Nice job, Ace.
"Or maybe if I write it all down...
;)
"And if I indicate which part is the actual text..."
"Um... Or what if I ask for just a single letter? That's easy, right?"
Color me impressed. Or magenta.
"Ok, fine, I get it. You've made your point. No text. I guess I'll just ask for a flower or something."
;)
"AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGHHH!!"
Thanks to Katy E., Cristina B., Terry M., Brandt H., & Anony M. for making this post literally painful.
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Reader Comments (15)
My dad used to say, "You can make anything foolproof, but NOTHING is damned-fool proof."
I believe this proves the statement that you cannot help people who do not want to be helped. Clearly, wreckers live in their own little world, surrounded by weird cakes and other wreckers and are apparently unaware that they are being exemplified as "these are the cakes your mother warned you about!" :)
That shirt CCC is one of the most tolerable CCC we've seen.
Lady Anne, wise words from your father!
I actually kind of like Wrecky #1, if that's a school cake; reminiscent of spelling lessons. Should it be ironic that Wreck the Second is written in red icing? No? TMI? Okay, then. What amazes me about the third wreck is that it's a Hawaiian shirt CCC (ptui!). Magenta T is is the musical artist who starred in the latest Crayola advertisement, of course. The final cake celebrates Magenta T's latest hit, "Just a Flower."
I was wondering if the "CC" cake was actually celebrating menopause. :-)
To be fair to the wreckerator, possibly CC just had a hysterectomy and her friends are throwing her a party.
My first thought at the second cake is that it was a hysterectomy cake. Are those a thing??
Lady Anne - I love it!
I'm CC, the cake was for my birthday, NOT a menopause cake! The lady asked if there were periods after the Cs, I told her no, and she wrote that phrase for the decorator. I don't think I've laughed so hard when I opened the box!
Oy..kay, then!
Here's my two cents... That shirt cake is worth every penny. And, I'm not Hawaiian to ya.
Me, I'd prefer shortercake.
=^-.-^=
CC:
So my theory on your cake got shot to pieces. Does that mean that the cake two after yours isn't for Ice T's daughter, after all?
NN
I think the first cake is fine. I can imagine, for example, a school finishes up trying out the new (mandated) A.B.C. (whatever that might be) Program. They had success with it. Cake appears at staff meeting. Is there any mitigating data that makes it unquestionably a wreck?
I know cursive isn't very popular, but I'm not too sure about the spelling on that first one. Looks like 'celelrating' to me...
sue: I know! That is way more and way nicer decorating that a CCC usually gets.
petra: Well, I'd say so, myself. They didn't get what they wanted and I'm sure all that "a as in apple" stuff would seem a lot weirder and more baffling to them than it does even to us. No mitigation here!! :)
It's been pointed out, I know, that grocery and supermarket 'bakeries' are often staffed by people for whom English is a second/third/fourth language, and that really does explain cakes like these, but I do think there's a touch of passive-aggressiveness in a lot of similar 'mistakes.' Such a weird thing to do to customers.