Is There No "Just Us"?
November 30, 2016 After you see the word "just" written on a cake enough times, you start to ask yourself, "How does this keep happening?"
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I don't know. I honestly don't.
But it still cracks me up.
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Sometimes I can't help imagining the conversation:
"What would you like the cake to say?"
"'Happy Birthday.'"
"Anything else?"
"Just 'Happy Birthday.'"
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BAM.
(I see "Just Happy Birthday" so often that I'm starting to wonder if bakers think it's a "thing." You know, like Man Showers or Dubstep.)
Then there are the perils of ever thanking your baker:
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Not to mention the perils of writing anything out with instructions, really:
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And just like that, CC's hysterectomy cake would never be forgotten.
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No, not "nothing ON IT," I mean just, you know, NOTHING.
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You're killing me here.
Ok, what if I tell you to leave the cake blank?
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As I suspected:
We're doomed.
Thanks to Ginger E., Anony M., Jenny C., Nathan B., Nicole P., Cristina B., Kristen H., Erica, & Ross E., who know you can't take anything I say literally, because I only speak in similes. LIKE A BOSS.
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Reader Comments (19)
I think at least one of these bakers used to do surveys at a mall. One gal stopped me, asked questions, and then jot down my answers.
"Anything else?"
"No, that's all."
And she would carefully write down "that's all" and the end of every response.
I'm glad to see she went on to better and better things.
Just a haiku:
Hoping for nothing
I asked for a special cake
As blank as my mind
At first I thought the cake was a nice way of telling the "birthday girl" that 34 was not all that old. (Especially when compared to oldie-mouldies like me) Then, I realized where you were going with this post.
Geez, a cake with a turnip as a decoration...
Oh! that is supposed to be a strawberry!
This post still cracks me up, and caused multiple -facepalms-
Bwahahaha@suebee. :D as for the cakes this is what happens when things are taken way too literally O_o
Why complain if it means more ICING??? 8-d
I wouldn't pay. I hope no one else did either. Stupid idiots on both sides if they did.
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I like that Barbara!? has so many unnecessary question marks. ?Thanks?!
A testimonial to "the gene pool needs bleach" fer shure!
The "Nothing" cake is... weird. What is that? A gardening cake gone wrong with too many gummy worms? And then there's the word 'nothing' floating there in the corner. Ay carumba!
This could also be a testimonial to what happens to cakes in states that have legalized the use of marijuana!
@ SuBee - Too funny, as always!
MaryO1230
Is it just me, or does that last cake look like a guy in a tuxedo that was run over by a truck?
It makes me really angry when I see wrecks like these. I do find them hilarious, but the customers were probably given a form that said something along the lines of 'your message exactly as you want it to appear on the cake:'. In that case, it's entirely the customer's fault. Phone orders, on the other hand, could cause confusion leading to wrecks like these, I suppose...
At first I thought "nothing" was a two way wreck: because of the word and the decoration. But then I connected the dots: that freshly removed soil look...the worms...IT'S A CRIME SCENE PEOPLE!!! And the word "nothing" is there on purpose, so we don't ask questions that were already answered, like:What's buried here?
... the worms have hats?
...special green buttercream hats?
Also, I came here looking for a Terry Pratchett reference. I still think there might be one in there, somewhere.
Did anyone else have to look up "Man Showers" to see what kind of gender specific bathing that men are doing these days?
No? Just me?
Alrighty, then.
I had no idea that a male only baby shower was a man shower. And this whole "man xxx" naming trend always makes me think of this comic
Lol just gimme the cake is what one customer should have said. Then they would have a cake with only the word Just on it. Sheesh.
I keep looking at these like one of those word riddles, you know the ones. e.g. May then below that AAA. Answer - mayonnaise. So ... nothing pink in wormy poo. Do I win a prize?
@theangelJean - me too. But it seems there is no justice, just us.
"How does this keep happening?"
I just don't know; it just does. I guess it's just one of those things.