To buy a birthday cake.

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Even though we are in lockdown and it's not actually anyone's birthday?

Well the cashier in my local Tesco has given me a royal earbashing. Purchased a birthday cake amongst my groceries cause I fancied bday cake and I just thought fuck it, I've had very shit week so I'm going to sit tonight and have a slice or 2?!

Cashier says ooh, is it someone's birthday today?

Que my response, oh, no just fancied birthday cake. I know it's a bit strange.

Cashier replies, well that's selfish.

Me: I'm sorry?

Cashier: You should leave them for people who are actually having their birthday.

I was so baffled I just paid and left. Am I really being unreasonable to buy birthday cake when it's not my birthday?

Fwiw the shelves were not exactly bare in the birthday cake section..

Go back tomorrow and go to her till with the birthday cakes. As she rings them up, say ‘I dare you to say one word’. Once the sour-faced cow has ring them all up, say ‘Nah, I’ve changed my mind’ and walk out.

TEN birthday cakes, not the.

This is just the sort of thread I love when I'm feeling a bit down. It's also one where I think both women are typical mumsnetters in their own way.

When I was pregnant I almost had a special birthday cake made for £200 because I had a craving. So yanbu.

I ogled Colin the Caterpillar just this afternoon but wish I'd not been so restrained now so I could have shown solidarity.

Actually had a few nice cakes from supermarkets. Not dry at all!

When I was pregnant I almost had a special birthday cake made for £200 because I had a craving.
This sounds wonderful.

Maybe the cashier had a flashback to a time she tried to get birthday cake and they were sold out of the one she wanted.

I’ve brought reduced birthday cake before: DP and I had crisps, Prosecco and birthday cake for tea. It was amazing. No judgement here.

@DataColour

Supermarket birthday cakes are tasteless....the only kind of cake I wouldn't want to eat. What's so special about them? Although i don't mind a slice of M&S caterpillar cake...

LOL... Colin is a supermarket cake...

@DuzzyFuck

I don't really like birthday cake OP, so you're welcome to my share of them!

I wonder if the cashier employs the same tactic with other items? Someone with baby wipes in their basket.....

'Ooh have you got a little one at home?'
'No, I just use them to take my make up off'
'You selfish cow, put them back, how dare you take wet wipes from helpless babies'

God forbid a man buying Sanpro ever passes through her till.

i wonder if i'm allowed to buy my veggie sausages, when I'm not even a vegetarian... :/

I have literally ALWAYS wanted to do this but felt like too much of a fatty (yet will happily devour an entire non birthday themed cake )

You are my hero 😂😂

And f*ck the miserable cashier. It's always somebodies birthday somewhere 🤗

How bizzare.

Anyone wanting a lockdown treat? Recommend making brownies using the BBC recipe. I use Sainsburys Belgian cooking chocolate at £1.10 per 200gm. Secret is beating the sugar and eggs for up to 8 mins so you get a cracked top.

Cooked in an 8" square tin cut into 4 length pieces. divide each length into 4 for adults or 6 for younger dcs. Pop in a warm oven and serve with ice cream. Supposedly lasts for two weeks - never had that issue.

Happy fake birthday! Hope the cake was lovely

If you want cake buy it.
A similar thing happened when I was chair of the PTA and bought loads of little gifts such as erasers, stickers and bouncy balls.The conversation went along the lines of:
Cashier: you are buying an awful lot here
Me: yes I know, it’s for school
Cashier: school??
Me: err yes school children
Cashier: all of them?
Me: err yes I’m chair of the PTA and these are rewards for all the children
Cashier: well I suppose that’s ok then. Will you use them all?
Me: yes, yes definitely.
Cashier: Hmm
Me: thank you very much!
Running red faced out of the shop.

@Lauren1983

It's actually my birthday today OP. Feel free to eat it on my behalf!

Mine too!!!

Enjoy you cake everyone 🍰 😘

. Bizarre!

Some people could argue with a cardboard box.

I buy tampons when I'm not in my period

I buy shampoo when my hair is clean

If I was feeling mean I'd have had a word with the supervisor

We should all go and buy birthday cake in that cashiers aisle tomorrow

What she said was the craziest thing I’ve ever heard!! Enjoy the cake!!

Enjoy your cake. It’s a celebration cake. You’re celebrating the end of a shitty week.
She ought to mind her own business.
I am amazed you didn’t tell her to keep her beak out.

Next time you crave birthday cake... you all need to get to Costco and grab one of their massive white rectangular ones, £15 with personal message iced on if you choose and it is literally the BEST cake

This is such a genius idea! I would never av thought to buy one when not for a bday but why ever not! I'm gonna get one next time I go!
After this thread, there may well be a shortage

You should have told her as it was a shop you could buy whatever the fuck you liked and maybe she was mistaken about the place she worked.

Thought you were going to say she was going to have a go at you for celebrating a birthday during lockdown - even that would have been preferable to what she actually said!!