Entries Tagged as 'cake'

Let the rest of us eat cake.

January 12th, 2010 · 189 Comments

“My roommate in college was allergic to everything,” says Casey in Watsonville, California — and she talked about it ad nauseam. “For her birthday sophomore year, we went to buy her a cake but of course she was allergic to everything good. So in the end, I just got a cake I liked and we [...]

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Tags: birthday · cake · mean girls · non-apology apology · roommates

When a card just won’t do

February 22nd, 2009 · 78 Comments

Juan in Brampton, Ontario wasn’t persuasive enough to convince his girlfriend, kat, to skip work and go to her own surprise party. His friends were…not so happy.

Meanwhile, Sam’s best friend baked this for her husband after he re-arranged the living room early in the morning without telling her, resulting in some seriously bruised shins. “What’s [...]

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Tags: birthday · cake · canada · more aggressive than passive · ontario · p.s.

“I don’t need a birthday cake,” I said.

September 12th, 2008 · 112 Comments

(My roommate disagreed.)

Now it’s my turn: Happy birthday, Kim! (emoticon emoticon emoticon)
related: an occasion that blue mountain arts has yet to animate
extra credit: cake wrecks

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Tags: birthday · brooklyn · cake · new york · park slope · roommates · smiley