The Day We Ordered:
Us: We're throwing a baby shower for a coworker, and we want it to have a baseball theme (we had purchased baseball cups, napkins, and decorations... our coworker LOVES baseball and is having a boy, so it seemed appropriate)
Kroger: Hm. We don't really have a "baseball-baby shower" theme cake.
Us: No, that's ok, we don't want baby stuff on the cake, but do you have something you can do with a baseball theme?
Kroger: Oh, yes! Definitely. We do a baseball diamond on top of the cake with players and little baseballs. It's really cute. Would you like that?
Us: That sounds great!
Kroger: Is it going to be a boy or a girl?
Us: A boy.
Kroger: Well, I'll write down to do the colors in pastels so it looks a little more baby-showerish. But we'll go with the baseball cake.
Us: Alrighty.
Kroger (panicked, clearly): Ummm this is not turning out very good.
Me: What do you mean?
Kroger: Well, I'm trying to draw the baseballs on here, and it just doesn't look like anything. It's a big blob! I keep taking it off.
Me: I don't think you were supposed to draw baseballs on there. They said you had some sort of baseball kit. There's supposed to be a baseball diamond.
Kroger: Uhhh. What? This is what I did (Lifts up a crazy over-the-top baby shower cake with stuff all over it)
Me: What's that?
Kroger: Well it said to do a baseball baby shower cake. We don't do that!
Me: No, it's supposed to just be a baseball cake. In pastel colors or something like that.
Kroger: Well here's the note she gave me (she shows me the notes for how to make the cake, and it truly was GIBBERISH)
Me: Well, we really didn't want baby stuff on there. Just baseball stuff.
Kroger: Do you want me to start over?
Me: No, the shower's in 30 minutes. Uhhh, just make it look good.
Kroger: I have baseball players I can put on top! How about that? That will kind of make it baseball themed. And look! The box on top is a keepsake box for the baby! (Note: there is, indeed, a box on top. That I'm sure the baby will just LOVE. WHAT??? PS, it is Spanish on the inside.)
Me: Fine, just make it look good.
Kroger: We have black baseball players AND white baseball players.
Me: Oh, ok. That's good.
... And this is what we got, folks. A serious, serious CAKEWRECK. And a hilarious baby shower cake. AND AND a keepsake box. For the baby.
It was quite delish, however. And she didn't make us pay for it. So there's that.

2 comments:
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! that cake is HIDEOUS! but no cake tastes as good as free cake, so there's that. :) what a mess! thanks for posting the pic!!!
i keep coming back to read this. i love it so so so.
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