Today, I ordered a graduation cake from a woman at the grocery store. She asked me what I wanted the cake to say and I said "Congratulations Annie". Then she asked me who was ordering and I said "Annie". I had to order my own cake. The woman was silent. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, at the supermarket, I bought a cake and had my friend's name put on it. It wasn't anyone's birthday, I just wanted to feel less ashamed about buying a whole cake for myself. FML
Today, I was at the bakery I work at. A man came in to pick up a cake he said he ordered, but we could find neither the cake nor the order form. He yelled at me about being 'incompetent' before remembering that he had ordered the cake from a different bakery. FML
Today, I bought a large ice cream cake. No, there's no occasion, but I did ask the cashier to write "Happy Birthday" on it, just so she wouldn't know I was going to eat it all myself. FML
Today, I bought a cheap cake topper online for my sister's birthday. It arrived with the words “Happy Birthday Mom.” I covered “Mom” with icing and thought nobody would notice. My sister's first comment was, “Why does my cake call me Mom?” FML
Today, I was ringing up a woman at work. I saw she'd bought a birthday cake, so I smiled and said I hoped whoever it was for has a happy birthday. She looked at me in disgust, told me to mind my own business, then called me a "chucklefuck bitch." Okay then. FML
Today, it was my son’s birthday. I took him out to a eat and wanted to surprise him with a new iPhone. I handed the waitress the iPhone and asked her to bring it out with the cake I brought. The cake comes out, without the iPhone. The waitress said she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. FML
Today, after I'd ordered a birthday cake with my name written on it, I went to pick it up but the bakery messed up and wrote the name of the person who ordered one right before me. I stood at the party smiling while everyone congratulated “Kevin.” I am not called Kevin. FML
Today, it's my birthday. I'm a pastry chef by profession. Not only did my family buy a cake from my bakery, I had to make it myself and inscribe it with 'Happy Birthday Dad'. The worst part is, they asked money from me to pay for it. FML
Today, it was my friend's birthday, so I baked him a cake complete with his name written on it in homemade frosting. After I gave it to him, his mother berated me for it, saying I should have checked with her first before making a cake for her son. He's 28. FML
Today, a coworker left a chocolate cake on the "free food" table in the office. I had a slice. She's just called to ask if she left her grandmother's birthday cake at work. She made it from scratch. Now I'm baking a new cake in the office kitchen. FML
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purple5 0
Aw, you had to order your own graduation cake? That really sucks :( But as long as it tasted good, that's all that matters, right? :P You could've said it was for a friend with the same name to shut her up, though it doesn't really matter what she thinks. Congrats on graduating anyway :)
above_the_birds 0
:( aww, congrats though!
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Comments (119)
Serafie 0
Aw, don't worry. #8 is right, it's often better to plan your own party/cake than let someone else do it and mess it up. D:
rukusrazor 0
More deserving people thinking everything should just be given to them. Boo-hoo.
yupp_onlyymee 0
Life blows. but funnyyy
guitardedman 0
i..do not understand this. was everyone in your family too busy to arrange this, did you feel so special about something that you had to congratulate yourself with a custom cake? wtf?
lovelymess 0
Awhh, that sucks. But really, who cares what that woman thinks? Congrats anyways. :)
genius_man16 1
i don't get the FML here
Lindzzz 0
#9 & 13 totally
deaditegirl 0
Not an FML.
ladyeinstein 0
Congratulations on graduating! Nothing wrong with ordering your own cake, at least you know you'll like it! :)
wompwompwomp 0
um. **** you OP. youre graduating from something. Start taking control of life and stop feeling bad for yourself. Maybe focus on the positive of the situation, ie graduating from something. Since you consider this an FML , you must be a 40 yr old with a recent associates of arts with a major in general studies at go **** yourself community college. wow, the above was completey unnecessary. :-) CONGRATS on Graduating...not an FML