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To think if you're going to make a cake for my son's birthday, you don't make one like this!?

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user1491737694 · 09/04/2017 12:39

I'm guessing it's supposed to be some kind of funny joke but I had a lot of bloody miserable kids who got no cake, especially a very upset 7 year old. All the other parents found it funny (or were just being polite) it was a disaster.

To think if you're going to make a cake for my son's birthday, you don't make one like this!?
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HecateAntaia · 09/04/2017 14:47

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thenewaveragebear1983 · 09/04/2017 14:49

It's not s cake. And let's be realistic it isn't particularly aesthetic or even carved with any degree of skill. It's just a hacked up watermelon.

This is as shit as arseless Colin (taat)

NeedATrim · 09/04/2017 14:52

Dona - I can never get over how people are so comfortable with being an arsehole towards others. Ever. IF a friend made a cake like yours for me, I would have tucked in right away. Just out of courtesy for the effort made and because I am so grateful for homemade cake.

Hoooow the bloody hell can someone agree to making a CAKE but instead rock up with a lump of hacked fruit. Knock me down with a feather.

bittapitta · 09/04/2017 14:53

Does she have kids? Did you tell her the convention that kids take a slice of cake home in their party bag and ask her what she was thinking?

Photograph · 09/04/2017 14:53

She hadn't even tried my beautiful vanilla and strawberry birthday cake I made her because I wasn't aware of the golden rule that birthday cake must be lemon drizzle. Needless to say, I never made her a birthday cake again.

some people do have issues. It's beyond rudeness. I would have loved to try your cake.

Greystars · 09/04/2017 14:53

I'd have wrapped it round her neck and said 'Oh look it can be a scarf as well - multi purpose or what ????'

Having considered it, this is the only reasonable response.

StrangeLookingParasite · 09/04/2017 14:56

They are quite popular in Australia from what i can gather from my old bosses pinterest they cover them in some sort of white frosting I suppose it beats baking in the awful heat.

It's not that bloody hot in Australia.

And I'd tell her to piss off, she's an arsehole. Fancy doing that to a seven year old.

Jux · 09/04/2017 14:56

What did she say when it became clear that you had expected her to make cake cake, not melon?

donadumaurier · 09/04/2017 15:00

NeedaTrim and photograph I'll wrap you a slice of my cake in a themed-party napkin and put it in the post Grin

My biggest mistake was being polite and eating the lemon drizzle. Which was a massive gesture of politeness given how much I hate lemon flavoured baked goods, and she knew this.

Guess what she baked, unprompted, for my birthday the following year? I would have been quite happy with no cake over that!

Jux · 09/04/2017 15:00

Oh, and when she saw the children, esp birthday child, were so unhappy?

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user1491737694 · 09/04/2017 15:01

Ah it's now become clear that she was probs having a dig at his behaviour.

"Some children definitely don't need the extra sugar"

And he isn't overweight... So I can't see what else that could mean

He has ADHD

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VestalVirgin · 09/04/2017 15:02

What did she say when it became clear that you had expected her to make cake cake, not melon?

Wasn't that clear from the beginning?

Words mean things. Or, well, at least, used to mean things. Apparently we live in a time now where the meaning of words can be changed at will.

But I am pretty sure this person still knew what was expected.

Floggingmolly · 09/04/2017 15:02

She deliberately engineered it so your ds wouldn't have a birthday cake, as a dig about his behaviour?

witsender · 09/04/2017 15:03

Ooooooh, what a cow!

MakeItStopNeville · 09/04/2017 15:03

It's a Pinterest fail AND a crap idea for a 7 yo. It's not even watermelon season.

To think if you're going to make a cake for my son's birthday, you don't make one like this!?
CouldntMakeThisShitUp · 09/04/2017 15:04

she's definitely having a passive aggressive dig at you/your dc, OP.
It's a shady thing to do to a child but she went ahead anyway just to make her 'point'.

what else has she been doing that you've been 'letting go'?

i would have pulled her up on it and refused to accept she thought it was acceptable.

nackle · 09/04/2017 15:05

She's plain nasty.

VestalVirgin · 09/04/2017 15:05

Ah it's now become clear that she was probs having a dig at his behaviour."Some children definitely don't need the extra sugar"

Wow, how nasty! If she thought he shouldn't have cake, she could just not have offered to make any. (Or really, at least put the effort into it and made a sugar-reduced actual cake)

Doesn't watermelon have a lot of sugar? So it is just plain nastiness.

givemestrengthandgin · 09/04/2017 15:06

Tell her to go to fuck and keep going ! That is exceptionally cruel and bloody rude Angry

donadumaurier · 09/04/2017 15:06

Please, please, please volunteer to make her child's cake and get them an ice sculpture. Please Grin

What an absolute cow.

HecateAntaia · 09/04/2017 15:07

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VestalVirgin · 09/04/2017 15:07

@MakeItStopNeville: that picture there is actually rather nice. A nice dessert, made to look beautiful with the carvings and berry decorations. Not a cake, but I'd find it funny if someone brought it to my party ... without having promised cake beforehand, of course!

SafeToCross · 09/04/2017 15:07

You can now have years and years of telling the funny story about when mad cousin x gave you a watermelon instead of a cake, what was she thinking.

kali110 · 09/04/2017 15:09

Even though i'm on a diet i would be pissed if i was expecting cake and got this Shock

VestalVirgin · 09/04/2017 15:10

Please, please, please volunteer to make her child's cake and get them an ice sculpture. Please

I agree. But warn the child beforehand, after all, it was not the child's decision to come up with this shit.
(If you make a nice Frozen-themed sculpture, the child might actually like it. ^^)

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