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The Cake. Alice forgot to bake her cake for a church bake sale until the last minute. Rummaging through cabinets, she found an angel food cake mix and rushed to make it. When she took it from the oven, the center dropped flat. It was horribly disfigured. She thought, "Oh dear, there's no time to bake another one." This cake was important; she wanted to make friends and fit in at her new church. She desperately searched the house for something to prop up the cake's center. She found it in the bathroom: a roll of toilet paper. She set it in and covered it with icing. The finished product looked perfect. Before dropping off the cake and going to work, she instructed her daughter Ann to be at the bake sale when it opened and to buy back the cake. But Ann called her later to say that the cake had already been sold when she arrived. Alice was horrified. Everyone would know! She'd be ostracized, ridiculed! All day, Alice fretted about the embarrassment. The next day, she tried not to think about the cake as she attended a fancy luncheon at the upper-crust home of a prominent member of the church. Alice didn't really want to go because the hostess was snobby, but she'd already RSVP'd and had no good excuse to stay home. The meal was elegant and, to Alice's horror, the cake in question was presented for dessert! Alice blanched when she saw it. She started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor's wife said, "What a beautiful cake!" Alice, still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess say, "Thank you, I baked it myself." |
