'Some idiot put this cake's writing in cursive!': Upset parent roasted by employee over dumb birthday cake dispute

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    Font - 'Me: Oh, is there something wrong? Woman: Yes! LOOK at this cake!'
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    Font - r/Tales FromRetail Posted by u/rachelmaryl "Some idiot put this cake's writing in cursive!"
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    Font - In college, I worked for a floral shop that shared a space with a bakery. We had the space for both businesses to operate and it naturally was a good partnership. This story takes place near the end of my senior year. I was six weeks shy of graduating with two degrees. Although I cared about the stores and wanted them to do well, my nonsense- tolerance had dropped significantly. One day, a woman came to me for balloons for her son's 2nd birthday party. She had already picked up her cake.
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    Font - Woman (grumpily tossing her balloon choices at me): Ugh, I can't believe the bakery. Me: Oh, is there something wrong? Woman: Yes! LOOK at this cake!
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    Font - She opens the box. It's a nice looking cake, decorated with icing and trains. A scrolling script says: "Happy 2nd Birthday Jackson!" Me: ... Woman: DON'T YOU SEE IT?! Me: I think it's a lovely ca-" Woman: IT'S IN CURSIVE! WHY THE F#CK WOULD THEY PUT IT IN CURSIVE? HE'S TWO!
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    Plant - Me: Oh...well, it'll take me a couple minutes to fill these balloons. I bet you could take it back, and they could scrape off the old lettering, re- frost the blank space, and rewrite it for you.
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    Font - Woman (clearly hasn't heard a word I said): I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE IS SO STUPID TO THINK THIS IS OKAY!
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    Handwriting - Me (yelling above her): CAN YOUR SON EVEN READ?!
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    Font - She immediately fell silent, blushed a deep purple, and was silent while I filled her balloons. She paid without a word. Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger! My first gilding!!!
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    Human body - ComiendoBizcocho Don't they always write in cursive on cakes?
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    Human body - rachelmaryl OP Not always. You can get printed letters, if you want.
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    Font - emax4 CAN YOUR SON EVEN READ? Thank you for saying out loud what we readers were thinking.
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    Font - barntobebad She's probably complaining because she can't read it, or only with difficulty.
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    Font - BlueberryJackets Kids that little don't give a d. It is the crazy parents. For instance my SIL made a snide remark that we had forgotten to put our daughter's name and age on that freebie smash cake that some bakeries give out for a 1st birthday. No. We didn't forget. She doesn't care. She isn't old enough to care. She just just wants to destroy it. I promise she isn't going to wake up in a cold sweat in her thirties thinking mom didn't even love me enough to even get my name on my fing s
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    Font - RscMrF The thing about working in retail is that you get to interact with people who you would never, ever, normally have to deal with and in a position where they feel they have the high ground to be able to act like a brat, when they would probably never do so to a random person on the street.
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    Font - typhoidmarry Nephews cake had "Happy Birthday Brain" on his cake. Name is Brian.

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