‘Her fault so she eats the cost’: Woman hires baker for gender reveal party, baker’s dog destroys the cupcakes

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 18, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

We all know that gender reveal parties can lead to wild results. These parties represent yet another unnecessary (and expensive) trend where people find an excuse to celebrate themselves. However, in this instance, the lady throwing the gender reveal party is not to blame for what happened. In fact, she learned the hard way that simply inviting friends and family over to reveal the gender of her unborn child verbally and without any crazy hijinks might be the best way to go.

 

Rather than a crazy fireworks show, all this Redditor wanted was to order cupcakes from a local baker. However, when she came over to the baker's home to pick up said cupcakes, the baker's dog went crazy and knocked the cupcakes out of the lady's hand, destroying them. Of course, this is an unfortunate situation that no one could have foreseen, but the Redditor is certainly not responsible for paying for those cupcakes. That much is clear.

 

Keep scrolling below to see how others reacted to the whole cupcake fiasco. For more stories like this, here are some cringeworthy texts about scaring your significant other with baby talk!

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    Blue - "AITA for refusing to pay for my gender reveal cupcakes?"
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    Font - AITA for refusing to pay for my gender reveal cupcakes? I(F22) found out last week my first baby's gender, and it's a little girl. My family are excited about I decided to do a small gender reveal over the Easter weekend. I had this planned for Saturday, so a few days before, I asked a small local business if she could please make 12 cupcakes with pink and blue icing on top, and pink icing in the middle. She agreed and said they would be ready to collect Friday evening
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    Font - the plan was to pick the cakes up friday, invite friends and family over saturday and give some guests a cupcake which would reveal the gender. i only invited a few guests as my apartment is fairly small, and i didnt want to do a large gender reveal anyway, just something cute and fun, plus, everyone loves cupcakes
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    Font - So friday evening came, the small business owner (Claire) gave me her address to collect the cakes from, said they would cost £25 and they are ready to collect whenever. i drove to her apartment and knocked on the door. she greeted me there with the box of cupcakes and they looked amazing. they were exactly how i imagined them and thanked her for them. she gave me the box, but just as she did, her large pet dog came running up to me, barking, and jumped at me, knocking the box of cupcakes
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    Font - Claire apologised and shut the dog inside he was still barking and jumping at the door. She said it's because he gets excited when people come and visit, but he wouldn't have hurt me as he's friendly. At this point i didn't know the damage to the cupcakes as the box landed upside down, i picked it up and the cakes were ruined. the icing had smashed all over the box and some cakes had spilled out onto the ground
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    Font - Claire looked horrified as i understand she spent a few hours making them for me, she apologised and said she could remake them for free, but they wouldn't be ready until Sunday. I said unfortunately im expecting my guests tomorrow and sunday is no good, as i already had other plans. i explained i wouldn't be paying for these cupcakes as they were inedible and ruined by her dog. We agreed payment upon receiving the goods, and since i never received them, i wouldn't be paying
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    Font - She said that I should still pay as she had to buy ingredients for the cakes and the costs of eggs has gone up meaning she would be out of pocket. i said if she had control of her dog, then they wouldn't of been dropped and im sorry but again, i wouldnt be paying
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    Font - i got in my car and left without the cupcakes. I still had guests attend on saturday, i announced the gender in person, rather than with some cupcakes but it was still nice spending time with my friends and family. my family were all happy, but my sister in law said i should of still paid for the cupcakes as she accepted it was her fault, and offered to remake them for me
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    Font - i personally don't think i should of had to pay for them, but now im feeling slightly guilty as i understand it's a small business and a loss of profit would affect her a lot harder than a larger business AITA?
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    Font - workphoneguy. 5 hr. ago NTA why on earth would you need to pay for something you didn't receive? I know it would be nice to help out Claire a little bit if you guys were friends but if this is just some lady then no 17.2k Reply Share
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    Font - AITACupcakes Ruined OP . 5 hr. ago she's not a friend, just a recommendation of a small business who sells cupcakes. i don't even think it's her main job, im pretty sure she does it in her spare time for a little bit of extra cash 5.4k Reply Share
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    Font - workphoneguy 5 hr. ago Yeah so NTA you shouldn't have to pay anything. Her dog jumped on you end of story. She should have had the dog under control. 4.3k Reply
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    Font - avocadosdontbite 5 hr. ago ΝΤΑ She is a business owner. She needs to act like a professional. Having a wild, uncontrollable dog jumping all over your customers and knocking your product out of their hands as they're trying to pick it up is not acting like a professional. This has nothing to do with the cost of eggs. She knows her dog doesn't behave and therefore should crate it or lock it in another room when she is meeting customers.
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    Font - No way should you pay a dime for those cupcakes you couldn't use. If she could have remade them for you that day and delivered them to your house, sure. But you had no use for them a week later. Her fault so she eats the cost. 7.5k Reply Share
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    Font - Snekathan 4 hr. ago A little piece of him in every bite 590 Reply Share lambeau_leapfrog. 4 hr. ago Canine reveal party. 174 Reply Share
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    Font - Sinnamon-Buns 5 hr. ago NTA. She should have put the dog away knowing he "gets excited" when people visit. Small business or not it's just common sense. 3.9k Reply Share
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    Font - COLO PlagueeRatt 4 hr. ago . This!!! They were incredibly negligent and irresponsible. For them to even think OP owed a dime for a product they never received is honestly laughable. And from this interaction, Id warn others. If a dog is that uncontrollable, imagine how unsanitary that kitchen is. I wouldn't doubt there may even be traces of fur or slobber in those cupcakes. 640 Reply Share
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    Font - Rainbow62993 - 5 hr. ago Colo-rectal Surgeon [45] NTA - she should be a responsible dog owner and have her dog kept elsewhere when guests are coming - especially since she openly admitted that he "gets excited" like that with new people. 2.1k Reply Share
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