Yesterday was one of my co-workers birthday's and one of the other girls decided to buy her a cake. It was a nice gesture, and we always try to celebrate everyone's birthday with something. But this ended up being kind of funny because the girl who bought the cake, accidentally dropped it out in the parking lot!
Luckily it was still in the box, so it didn't smash on the asphalt or anything. But when we opened it up, the frosting was all over the box and it was squished on one side. And instead of reading: Happy Birthday Courtney! It had morphed into something that read: J beb y cow n. I'm not even sure how that turned out like that, but it was the funniest damn thing ever. I wished I had a camera to take a picture of it. What a sad birthday message. It even had the word COW in it.
Luckily Courtney has a good sense of humor and said the cake was even better all smashed up like that. It looked like it had been fished out of a dumpster, but it still tasted good! I love finding the humor in stupid things like that. I think next time there's a birthday at the office, we'll drop the cake again just to see what the new birthday message might say.....
It reminded me of my 18th birthday cake where the foreign cooks in the kitchen at our hotel didn't know how to spell Happy Birthday. So it ended up: Pappy Birthday! But the best part of something like that is, that's the cake I always remember. Not all the others that turned out correctly.....
evil_twin posted on Nov 19, 2008
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fragglesrock said on Nov 19, 2008....
that is hilarious! i wish someone would screw up my cake...haha! -
the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 19, 2008....
That is funny. :-D Stuff like that really does make it more memorable!
My best friend in college and I went to get a cake decorated for the RA on her hall. We just wanted it to say Happy Birthday and his name. But apparently the WalMart bakery genius on staff that day was stoned or something, because we got this cryptic writing that said something closer to Hay Birdy. WTF?
We bought a tube of icing and squeezed the rest of the letters on there as best we could and hoped he wouldn't notice, but we laughed our asses off the whole way to his room with that pathetic cake! :-p
~Infernal
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uniquely-ironic said on Nov 19, 2008....
On boss/coworker was turning 40 so the gang bought him a sagging boob cake. Yup, we ordered a boob cake and told them to drop them down a few inches. Well, the words somehow slid into what looked like boob job scarring, much to the delight of the gang and embarrassment of the guy. -
evil_twin said on Nov 19, 2008....
fraggles--It was funny!
Infernal--I would have loved a cake that said, "Hay Birdy" on it! That's great. I love screw ups like that because it really does make the whole thing more memorable.
uniquely--A sagging boob cake? :-P That's funny! You got any pics of that masterpiece?
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uniquely-ironic said on Nov 19, 2008....
Sorry, no. It was back when my son was about 2 years old, so it's been quite awhile. -
wombat said on Nov 19, 2008....
Isn't that the way? Something "unusual" and different finally is a much better memory than the ordinary. I guess that's why people have so many "wedding bloopers" etc...to tell. It keeps the memory alive of the special event!
I remember the beautiful bouquet of flowers my ex got me when he picked me up from the hospital with the new baby. I was in the wheelchair surrounded by people----and all of us going, "OH no! He had put them on top of the car and then drove around the parking lot to the door. Yes, they fell and the vase smashed!
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nytquill17 said on Nov 19, 2008....
I got one thing for ya: cakewrecks :D -
queenparanoia said on Nov 20, 2008....
hahahahaha thats really funny!!!! ;-) -
evil_twin said on Nov 20, 2008....
uniquely--It was worth a shot asking. That was a long time ago!
wombat--That's horrible about the flowers :-( I would have been so mad at myself if I had done that! But I do think it's the little bloopers in life that always seem to stand out and make things more memorable.
nyt--You always seem to find the funniest websites! Nat and I looked at that one last night for almost an hour :-P There were some REALLY bad cakes there. My personal favorite was the baby riding a carrot and some other baby bursting out of what looked like a decapitated woman. I never laughed so hard!
queen--It was funny!
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uniquely-ironic said on Nov 20, 2008....
Just goes to prove that I can't blame my mischeiveous nature on old age and senility :) -
evil_twin said on Nov 20, 2008....
uniquely--I think a mischievous nature is an excellent quality in a person of any age :-P -
uniquely-ironic said on Nov 20, 2008....
than I'm definately a person of excellent quality! :)How's the weather down there? Are you dealing with a lot of smoke? I swear this weekend we had some pretty thick smoke smelling stuff, but I didn't think the most recent fires were that big -
quietone said on Nov 20, 2008....
That is pretty funny, you sure do work with a great bunch of people kyle! -
Hegemone said on Nov 20, 2008....
ET - That was absolutely hilarious, and what an interesting new office tradition for birthdays. Dropping cakes, lol. It's kind of like a VERY hands on way of playing Mad Libs or something like that, lol. Thanks for sharing that! -
evil_twin said on Nov 20, 2008....
uniquely--The weather has been pretty warm for this time of year. I hate it! I'm ready for it to feel cooler finally. And the smoke was pretty bad for a few days, but it's better now. We need rain so bad so everything can stop burning down!
quietone--I do work with some really cool people :-)
hegemone--I'm glad you enjoyed this :-) I think we have another birthday coming up in January, so we'll see what happens if we drop that cake!
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