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..

I just had a flashback of an assistant years ago saying to me ‘Ooh, you buy a lot of tins, don’t you? I always prefer to make things from fresh, myself’. Apart from the fact that I couldn’t care less whether she makes food from fresh, uses tins or eats roadkill, they were tins of chickpeas. How am I going to MAKE chickpeas?

@StillCoughingandLaughing ffs 😂😂😂 we'll maybe she also harvests them herself, clearly you're slacking 😇😂😂😂

Well**

I feel like we should turn this thread into "what's the most smug/ unreasonable things a cashier has ever said to you..."

The cashier sounds like a bundle of joy. Eat what ever cake you want. Next we will be selfish if we buy two bottles of gin.

Maybe she thought you was panic buying it in advance for next year as some people seem to be extremely over invested in others weekly shop. Hence why I click and collect or only very rarely pop out in person after 9pm when no on is in the shops to judge. Her problem, not yours

@00100001 my DP is vegan but I'm not. What would this cashier be thinking when our shop goes through?

'You're buying vegan mince AND chicken thighs????'

This makes me want to go and buy a birthday cake right now

Yes I think the cashier is a candle short of a birthday cake and has issues so sure odd what she said but her opinion does not mean you buying the cake is wrong at all so you can dismiss her thoughts as they have nothing to do with you

You did nothing wrong so accept that

We regularly (around twice a month 😳) buy a birthday cake just for the households dessert option.
Just the cheap £3.50/£4 ones which come in chocolate or vanilla. Not the best but you get a lot of cake for your money and we get a couple tins of custard too so its not too dry.
Sometimes birthday cake is what you fancy, and if you're paying then I don't see why it matters.

You could've made up some insane sob story... "Ok, I lied. I'm celebrating my grandmother's birthday because she raised me after my mother went missing while studying an Amazonian tribe when I was a toddler. We were deep in the jungle & there was an altercation with a rival tribe & my mother & I were separated. I wandered the jungle alone for weeks, surviving on nothing but rainwater collected in giant leaves & any small insects I could pluck off the trees, until I happened upon a village where, as luck would have it, a group of English explorers were passing through. Being an incredibly eloquent 2yo, I explained the situation to them & gave them my grandmother's address in England so they immediately abandoned their expedition to escort me safely home. Many years later I discovered that my mother had thought I'd died & had gone on to marry someone from the tribe & had several more children. My grandmother was my mother figure for most of my life so I still celebrate her birthday, even though she died several years ago now when some wolves escaped from a local zoo & she valiantly tried to fight them off with her bare hands to defend me... ... Obviously, I don't really like discussing it with strangers, which is why I pretend to just be buying a cake for no reason..."

"Pre kids we went to Toysrus for the nephews and nieces, DH bought a pot of playdoh just to fiddle with and sniff. Like a toy serial killer."

@MiddleClassProblem this is one of my favourite MN comments ever

You don’t need to make up some sob story. Any person with basic social skills would’ve cracked a joke along the lines of ‘good for you’..

Boris does the same it seems:

There are often birthday cakes in the fridge, which I'll eat for breakfast: Betty Crocker's cakes are my favourite.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/may/25/foodanddrink.boris

[quote DuzzyFuck]@00100001 my DP is vegan but I'm not. What would this cashier be thinking when our shop goes through?

'You're buying vegan mince AND chicken thighs????' [/quote]
No doubt they're one of those people who "can't understand" why vegans want to replicate meat products

[quote dontwantamirena]Boris does the same it seems:

There are often birthday cakes in the fridge, which I'll eat for breakfast: Betty Crocker's cakes are my favourite.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/may/25/foodanddrink.boris[/quote]
This makes for rather...prescient reading, in light of his covid experience.

How odd! A cashier discouraging sales

*There are often birthday cakes in the fridge, which I'll eat for breakfast: Betty Crocker's cakes are my favourite.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/may/25/foodanddrink.boris*

So that's why he hides in fridges!

If I were you I would buy a birthday cake every time you spot her ( and choose her checkout)
Well probably not every time if you shop there daily but fairly often.
What a weirdo.

It was for the Mad Hatter’s Happy Unbirthday party

Good lord, we get birthday cakes all the time! We call them celebration cakes and then make up whatever crap we can to warrant a celebration.

"What, you didn't get lost the whole way to school? Hurrah! Do you want the chocolate one or the one with the stars?"

If there's something that really does deserve a reward, we have a take-out too to make sure that there is a step-up celebration too. Sometimes we get fizzy drinks if it's really amazing.

I feel like we all put so much pressure on ourselves to be amazing that we forget that sometimes good enough is good enough. Sometimes wanting birthday cake is enough reason to buy birthday cake.

YABU, because I don’t believe this actually happened.

@Osirus are you disbelieving someone would buy a birthday cake or that the cashier commented?

When I was a child my mum use to get us a birthday cake every week in the weekly shop Imagine what the cashier would say about that

Oooh! I like cake but had never actually thought of buying birthday cake on a non-birthday. Enjoy your

I'm so gonna do this

@Osirus I don't blame you for that vote, I can't believe it happened either!!

Had to pop in to Tesco today for a few essentials (Not birthday cake this time!) happened to go through the same cashiers lane again, not sure she recognised me though, as she never said anything