Cake

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

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Elizabeth went to Hy-Vee to order her birthday cake. She and Chris went the day before her birthday party. Elizabeth told the woman there she wanted fondant on her cake. The woman apologized and said that they needed at least a few days notice to do a fondant cake.

Then the woman asked Elizabeth if she had ever used fondant. Elizabeth told her she had made some herself and played with it to try to see how it would be used.

The woman looked at Chris and said, "I can do it, but it will be between $40-$50." Chris said that Elizabeth didn't need a fondant cake for her 11th birthday sleepover party. The woman told Elizabeth she'd make sure she made a really nice, very smoothly frosted cake for her.

The next day when Chris went to pick up the cake, there were fondant stripes along the side. The morals of the story are:

1. Know what you're talking about when you go to make a purchase.

2. Be kind.

3. Show people that you appreciate the talents needed for their work.

4. Be a reasonably cute and clean 11 year old when you do steps 1-3.

On a loosely-related note, the girls have taken to calling one another "ugly cake." Maddie started it and said that to her it's the opposite of "cutie pie."