#5: The Cake Massacre

This story was lucky enough to be photo-documented.

Date: September 2006
Location: BYU Freshman dorm, Provo, UT, USA

So, my freshman year of college, my roommate and dear friend Reba and I had made this amazing new friend Lindsay, who lived just a couple doors down. We are all still great friends to this day. Well, it was Lindsay's birthday and we wanted to surprise her with a cake. So using the kitchen facilities of our dorm and Creamery-bought cake decorations, we made a wonderful little cake.

       We had Lindsay come to our room, and when she opened the door, there we were, with our glowing sugary gift. Her reaction was just what we were hoping: she loved it.

     Well, we decided we wanted a picture with the cake, so we propped it up onto one of the dorm-provided chairs, so that the letters would be visible. Unfortunately, we didn't take into account that the chair had a big opening in the back of it.

                                   Our beautiful cake!!! Lindsay's birthday!!! Noooo!!!






   All three of us just stared at the wreckage. Had we really just dropped Lindsay's birthday cake??? Yes. And had it really landed frosting-side down??? Yes. There it was. Destroyed. Ruined. Gone. On the disgusting warehouse carpet worn thin from the sweaty feet and dirt-covered shoes of hundreds of previous residents. We had successfully ruined our friend's birthday.
     But Reba and Lindsay are not the types to give up easily. A salvage-attempt was made.

                                         Reba, are you EATING it???? Off of the floor???
                      (editor's note: after serving a mission in South America, I would have done the same without thinking twice about it.)




     But, life had taught us to make lemonade out of lemons, so we made a cake fight out of cake.

    In the end, we just scraped off the frosting, put new frosting on...and ate it anyway. Lindsay, we're sorry we didn't think that one through better.
     .....but for the memory it made, I don't regret it too much. ;)

(2nd Editor's note: frosting is very itchy when plastered to your face. Avoid using it as a substitute make-up mask when possible.)