To begin with, the only reason I stopped to take this picture of a cake display in the bakery department of the local grocery store was for the typo.
I'm not the kind of freak who stops to admire cakes, and in my whole life I have never bought a pre-decorated cake, though I have nothing against anyone who does.
I just saw the misspelled word on their display case, shot this photo for evidence, and went on my way.
Not That Kind of Freak
I'm not the kind of freak who loses sleep over a misspelled word here and there, and in my whole life I've misspelled many thousands of words. In fact, it was only a few years ago that I learned how to correctly spell the word misspell because 'misspell' doesn't look right to me, and even now, I don't particularly like the way that word is spelled.
Again, it's no big deal, but here's the correct spelling of the word in their display sign, I looked it up and made a neat screenshot:
I'm no undercover grammar cop, I don't have what it takes, but I just took the picture, and forgot about it until I got home and uploaded it to stare at it for a while. Bored with grammar, I looked at the cakes, and then their prices. I guess I was a little surprised to see that one of those cakes cost nearly $80!
Cake- $75
Now, I'm not the kind of freak who squawks about the prices of things in grocery stores, I just calculate what I need to buy, and if they have what I need, I buy it if I have enough money. If I don't have enough money to get all that I need, I can hardly blame the grocery store for that.
It would be even sillier for me to complain about the cost of a product if it was something that I don't need, and I can think of dozens of products that I'm glad I don't need, but the cost of those products is not part of my consciousness at this point in time. This is one reason, for example, why I don't care how much a pickled egg costs. It's not interesting to me, though I have nothing against anyone who enjoys pickled eggs, or anyone who might subsequently complain about the price of said egg, but I am drifting here. Cakes.
Current Cake Costs Cause Local Shopper to Forget Typo on Display Case in Photo
I spent some time on that headline, so it stays. It was when I uploaded the photo of those cakes in the display that I finally got a good look at the two under the glass. Then I saw the price tags. Man was I glad I didn't need a cake that day.
Autumn Tree cake- $36.99
Sunflower cake- $75.99
What a strange world I live in. That's a lot of dough for a cake. I can't imagine needing a cake that badly. I can't imagine plopping down 75 bucks for a cake. Is this society really that rich?
I'm glad to see an artist getting rewarded for their craft, though, and if I was asked to build such a cake as either one of those in that display, it would cost my client hundreds.
I Can Make You a Cake for Less Than a Thousand Dollars
I can bake cakes, been doing it my whole life, but now I'm an artist, and if I'm commissioned to do an edible sculpture of any size, it's going to be expensive. Who needs cake that badly?
Of course, I'm the kind of freak who used to beg my mom to bake a cake, or make cookies, something, and finally one day she said, "Why don't YOU make a cake?"
I had honestly never thought of it, being only 7 or 8 years old, but she was right, and soon I was building double-tiered, fully iced cakes, I didn't need an occasion and didn't need to know how to spell it; my mom gave me the recipe, we cracked some eggs and got out the beaters and just made a cake. Easy as pie, as they say.
Anyway, as it turns out, this lesson in cake-baking was apparently a very valuable one. If I fall on hard times, I can always start baking cakes. Mispeled words cost extra.
