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)
RottenKid 0
Ouch! anyone who said "YDI" is a prick but seriously, did everyone forget?
vanityinsanity 0
why is this such a big deal, that you are picking out your own cake? like this is hardly a FYL. its a freakin cake - like if you wanted your mom to get it im sure she wouldve, but like personally, i would like to be the one picking out the cake...it's YOUR grad!
wbrycem 0
She could be picking out her cake because no one else would. It's her graduation, she shouldn't have to buy a cake. It's like buying yourself a cake for your birthday. That's the family's/friend's job.
Emwo 0
If the cake was delicious, how is this an FML?
elemandem 0
I had to order the cake for my graduation party. Get over it.
saxlover 0
Yeah, I usually leave a fake name like when I'm at Starbucks or any other place. (Mostly because my name is hard to pronounce).
magmafire93 0
She needs to suck it. Tell customer service on her ass.
anniesaysbueno 0
my name's annie too (: congrats on graduating!
jagg3d3d93 0
This made me sad.
greeneye_fml 12
You can lie, you know. Annie is a common enough name to say its someone else. Maybe its just me but I don't want to be the joke of a bakery staff.