sorry for exposing your tags but this is hilarious

OP, I hope you don’t mind me making an addition:

When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.

The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?

This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.

I love a botched cake.

[image 1: a decorated rectangular cake. text written with icing is supposed to read “congratulations”, but the letters become squished closer together as the word goes on, and the word becomes illegible, though obviously misspelled.

image 2: tags reading:

i had to get a cake for my brother's graduation. the employee came out with this. he didn't even seem embarrassed. he just looked so tired. he offered to try again but i said that it was perfect. couldn't have asked for a better cake for my brother. even my grandma thought it was funny. the cashier thought i was crazy but i was too busy crying. i mean look at it. how many letters. congratutalations. i don't know how to spell congratutalations either man i get it

image 3: another decorated rectangular cake. text done with icing reads, “Happy Birthday Courtney, Mily, Jaun, Pablo”. /end description]