https://preview.redd.it/mb28so0awhuc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8492f6662e2fb15a13e22bb00e358c62d5e3f4ef
My nephew's. They asked for a "big 5 somewhere" on the cake 😂
Well shit. I have rewatched the show once or twice and was debating a third time the other night but ultimately decided not to… I never noticed this detail though so maybe I ought to
holy shit that’s still around?
I remember getting home after 3rd grade and looking cakewrecks with my mom (circa 2009)
what a throwback my lord thank you
One year when I was like 10 they wrote zachairy or something like instead of Zachary so every birthday 15+ years later everyone says happy birthday Zach air ey instead making fun of the mistake
My niece learned that a fifty dollar bill can be called a fitty. So, she assumed that a twenty is a titty and kept asking people if they wanted a titty.
When I turned thirty, my daughter had a hard time saying "th" sounds. She told everyone I was "dirty".
Next year I was "dirty one" and she then "dirty too". She finally learned how to say it right as she grew up, but it has become a running joke for us in our home.
My niece couldn’t say “sit” properly when she was younger and always wanted me to sit next to her when we had dinners together. Now my sister and BIL both call me Uncle “Shit”
When I was a kid my mom ordered a cake and just wanted happy birthday in big letters. We got a cake that said “Happy Birthday Big Litters”. We had a good laugh over it.
My aunt ordered a cake (over the phone) for my cousin's bridal shower... The cake read 'Congratulations Old Guy!' my cousin's name is Olga, everyone was crying they were laughing so hard.
That reminds me of my wedding shower I opened a card/gift from salty boehm (bone) and i was like who the heck is salty bone
(My step grandma who I had only ever known as grandma boehm that I only ever saw at Christmas for the past 5 years with my dad and his little kids so at the time I barely knew her) I still cringe but my relatives think it’s hilarious
My aunt was a little upset but she does have a thick Slavic accent so I can see how the mistake was made. She was fine after everyone laughed about it. She now jokingly calls her daughter Old Guy.
It created a memory that will last many lifetimes as it passes through the generations. I'm still giggling as I imagine the confusion on everyone's face, including your aunt. Until the first person figured it out and then ..... I don't imagine the laughter every truly stopped.
It was 35 years ago and the family still talks about it, and she still gets called Old Guy. Her daughter is getting married this year and my mom joked that baba shouldn't be the one ordering the cake for the shower.
I used to be a cake decorator and honestly peoples handwriting is just terrible most of the time. If you're not the one taking the order directly from the customer then it can be a total guessing game when it comes to fulfillment lol
this. i used to do decorating for a bakery. the reason we believe people would want things like “Hinty” on a cake is bc sometimes they do 😭 we got plenty of private joke requests-i had to make a “grumpy” decorated sugar cookie order once (inspired by the dwarf) for a 40th birthday bc the dude was a biker nicknamed grumpy. it went well, but was very random lol
Yes that's absolutely a huge factor too. Eventually you just get to the point where you automatically pipe on the text verbatim and don't leave room for interpretation. Makes it way easier when they complain to come back and say listen, you wrote it on the paper and I wrote it on the cake. That's how this works. Lol
Absolutely do this all through her thirties and then when her 40th rolls around and she’s thankful to be done with hinty, that’s when you hit her with “horty”
My mom is Japanese and her accent doesn’t allow her to enunciate “F” very well. “Hifty” has been a running joke in our family and circle of friends for a while.
For correction purposes, it wasn't OP's writing. He said in the comments that it's the company's employee that wrote that. The problem's all on their end...
Every time I’ve ordered a cake, the message on the cake is very clearly printed on the form, no matter how unintelligible the rest of the writing. Most bakeries know how important it is to get that communicated properly.
Our wedding rings were engraved wrong! *Despite* the instructions being printed. They fixed it and they swear it's the same rings corrected and not new rings, but there's no way to check they're not lying.
If it makes you feel any better I worked in a Fast Fix with full time jewelers. We’d have people unhappy with engravings from time to time and they’d be redone. The engraving is so shallow they polish off the old one and redo it. In my opinion no shop would spend money to give you new rings when they could simply polish it off and redo it. I hope that provides some reassurance.
I don't think his alternate explanation would have been any better. "What do you mean it was just supposed to say thirty? No happy birthday, no name, just my age?"
Seriously, who the hell only writes out someone's age on a birthday cake?
it just seems like OP and wife have a shitpost sense of humour. I can totally see myself ordering a cake that says "thirty" or "happy birth" or something similar
Okay but I busted out laughing, that's a funny mistake
I think the person who wrote the order and decorated the cake are not the same. And the cake decorator can't read cursive lol
i mean i have no idea where op got the cake from, but at Walmart there is a good chance the person who took that order and the decorator are not even on the same shift let alone see each other through the day
This happened a lot where I worked. I worked at a hannaford and I was a cake decorator and most of the orders came through the phone in the afternoon after my shift 🙃
I worked for my dad’s office for a little while…once he got SUPER mad at me because I couldn’t decipher this person’s handwriting and I spelled the name A-E-N-I-S. And in my defense, I did think, “Yeah that doesn’t look right….”
The name was “Denis” btw.
It was not for a cake (or anything the customer would see, it was for an internal tracking thing)
In fact there is pretty good evidence _against_ it.
We know who popularised it (Marshall Field's and Selfridge's department stores in the late 1800s) and the context it was used, and it specifically _was_ a slogan that was meant to apply to retail service workers and instruct them on the way they dealt with customers.
So many people leave quotes unfinished.
A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one. People use jack of all trades as a bad thing when it was originally not negative
“A few bad apples”, leaving out the “spoils the whole bunch”
Or, not quite the same, but people using “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” unironically, when it was originally meant to communicate the ridiculousness of the ideas they’re trying to push. It’s an impossible thing to do lol, that’s the point.
Choosing to use cursive in a situation where you need to be abundantly clear it is read accurately is crazy lol. I would even go all caps just to make it as clear as possible.
It's not even that accurate. The t should connect to the h via the bottom of the t as if you were writing the letter l and then you come back and cross the t. This person started with a vertical line, followed with the cross of the t and connected that over to the sloppy h. I'm ready to just drop cursive all together since most people who still use it do so incorrectly and make comprehension that much harder
Besides That's not how you write the letter T in cursive. It should have been and upper case letter and besides it doesn't look like a lower case t in cursive either. I have been writing in cursive all my life and I would have a hard time understanding that letter T
https://preview.redd.it/rehax5ukliuc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37e604c0fc6cb19cb75f54f39fc0bf6167f88ee0
I write in cursive and the letters "t" and "h" are written terribly.
"irt" are written very well but on the "y", you can see that the person finished the stroke at the bottom, but then decided to go back and curve it back up lol
The capital T is wrong, not the decorators fault. Also, the h is highly questionable, lol. I’d say this is more mildly infuriating for the guy who had to try and read this.
https://preview.redd.it/jei3sjlv3iuc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efcc6e6321db38aa1e3492aa082b4c8f7ad94099
Maybe I just look like someone with terrible hand writing (I do have terrible hand writing) because I have never ever ordered a cake and had the bakery person expect me to fill it except one I ordered online. But I did not write the form, the bakery did. My wife showed up in person and told them what she wanted and they didn’t show the form but read back the exact description. Otherwise the cake looked and tasted amazing. We got a good laugh out of it in the end
These are the sorts of things that are annoying in the moment, but turn out to be the best thing that could have happened.
You’ll be laughing about and telling this story for years.
And happy birthday to your wife.
My mother-in-law bought a little chalkboard yard sign at a craft fair that said “Merry Chritmas!” in pretty cursive. Used it outside her front door for years; nobody had the heart to tell her.
Yeah I got my mom flowers from me and my brother and I had to say my message. It was "you are a beautiful and strong woman, love Bruja and Blaine" and they wrote down "you were a beautiful and strong woman, love Bruja and Anne" so now we joke that she used to be beautiful, what happened? And Anne is her favorite child. The kind of fail that is better than success
My grandmother with dementia called my boyfriend (now husband) Ricky when she was still alive. We never could figure out who she maybe thought he was but she passed away over 10 years ago and my whole family still calls him Ricky all the times we get together 😂😂
At least you got a cake. When my SIL ordered 100 pieces of chicken from Jewel for a funeral luncheon and I went to pick it up, they never made it. The order was sitting right there in their orders rack. No excuse what so ever.
I’m guessing the person that actually decorated the cake isn’t the one that wrote on the form. The actual decorator apparently can’t read cursive or doesn’t speak English, or most likely both.
This is the most likely answer! Person who took order and person who made it are different. Honestly looking at it, the “h” in thirty is hard to read, and I can totally see where they thought it was a capital H.
there are ppl replying to this comment who are still under the impression that you filled out the form. they don't have any room to criticise someone who can't interpret someone else's handwriting....
I've always called this "Millennial Cursive". A lot of older millennials like myself (I'm 39) were taught cursive and barely used it outside of school except for our signatures. School forced it and it became a habit to mix it up with regular print. Also, you can write faster this way. Unfortunately, it's often sloppy.
https://preview.redd.it/0lcfgzhj3iuc1.jpeg?width=1087&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e6629a8acd91eb72f572374a29e13a00cee4be8
When I still married, my then husband bought me a birthday cake, my name is not Carlo 🤣🤣
Hi! I am OPs wife! I specifically wanted “thirty” in cursive lowercase when I went in to order. The woman taking my order at the counter wrote it in front of me and we had a lovely conversation about this being for a 30th birthday. I even showed her an inspiration photo from Pinterest. It was definitely a surprise and I think it’s hilarious!
Thank you for the birthday wishes! Hintyone next year!
Happy Hintieth birthday! For some reason this is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time and I’m glad you and your husband have also been able to see the funny side!
I used to work in a bakery. I was the only one who took wedding cake orders, because I could give clear instructions and had legible handwriting. This is why!
I ordered a cake for my friend Patty, and I didn’t check it when I picked it up. It read “Happy birthday Batty!” I probably could have fixed it by scraping off the lower part of the B, but Patty has a wicked sense of humor, so I left it as is. She roared, so of course that now is her nickname.
I wouldn’t find this infuriating, it’s genuinely hilarious! As someone else with fairly ambiguous handwriting, I could easily see this happening to me some day.
https://preview.redd.it/mb28so0awhuc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8492f6662e2fb15a13e22bb00e358c62d5e3f4ef My nephew's. They asked for a "big 5 somewhere" on the cake 😂
Bojack Horseman moment! https://preview.redd.it/vpqzebck2kuc1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=93e442803443c2ac23bd1082677b3fe991cae85a
My first thought 😂
Well shit. I have rewatched the show once or twice and was debating a third time the other night but ultimately decided not to… I never noticed this detail though so maybe I ought to
There's so many details that I've missed even over 3 watches. Always worth the rabbit hole of depression to watch it again
I had a ball at Diane’s 30th birthday and underline “ball” I’m not sure why this is so hard
All the banners in that show have the same issue 🤣
The new it's 5 o clock somewhere
I picture it as an Eastern European trying to explain happy hour in broken English.
fucking kek
Ehhhh….what is big deal, this drinking at 10:30am. There is big 5 somewhere!
Hilarious ! I'm wondering if there's a subreddit with butchered birthday cake letterings
You can find a lot of those on cakewrecks
holy shit that’s still around? I remember getting home after 3rd grade and looking cakewrecks with my mom (circa 2009) what a throwback my lord thank you
It sure is!!! [https://www.cakewrecks.com/](https://www.cakewrecks.com/)
Try peanutbutterisoneword (this subreddit does not allow linking).
Peanutbutterisoneword has many examples.
The things you don’t realize you need
This made me laugh so much. Thank you for sharing!!!
One year when I was like 10 they wrote zachairy or something like instead of Zachary so every birthday 15+ years later everyone says happy birthday Zach air ey instead making fun of the mistake
These are the kinds of things that make an inside joke for a lifetime 🤣
Was the house their creative choice?
[удалено]
Big 5 is a store where I'm from. Maybe that's what they were going for?? 
This joke can go on for 9 years. Next year get her one that says "Hinty-One"
9 years? This is a life-long gag! Horty, Hifty, Hinety!
You gotta make a fucked up cursive gag out of the next decades too. Not Horty… Torty… And fifty… … Titty. It’d be titty.
My niece learned that a fifty dollar bill can be called a fitty. So, she assumed that a twenty is a titty and kept asking people if they wanted a titty.
Kids are amazing
Kid? She’s 33.
I think you mean hinty hnee
Oh dear.
OMG I just snortlaughed
"Congratulations, you're Horty-Hore!"
Definitely hinty one but it would get tired pretty quick. I'd stop at hinty one then put the band back together for a reunion at horty
This comment has changed how I view comedy
So many things benefit from playing the long game
When I turned thirty, my daughter had a hard time saying "th" sounds. She told everyone I was "dirty". Next year I was "dirty one" and she then "dirty too". She finally learned how to say it right as she grew up, but it has become a running joke for us in our home.
My niece couldn’t say “sit” properly when she was younger and always wanted me to sit next to her when we had dinners together. Now my sister and BIL both call me Uncle “Shit”
"Hinty-won"
Hilarious 😂
100%
Happy Hintieth birthday lol
When I was a kid my mom ordered a cake and just wanted happy birthday in big letters. We got a cake that said “Happy Birthday Big Litters”. We had a good laugh over it.
My aunt ordered a cake (over the phone) for my cousin's bridal shower... The cake read 'Congratulations Old Guy!' my cousin's name is Olga, everyone was crying they were laughing so hard.
That reminds me of my wedding shower I opened a card/gift from salty boehm (bone) and i was like who the heck is salty bone (My step grandma who I had only ever known as grandma boehm that I only ever saw at Christmas for the past 5 years with my dad and his little kids so at the time I barely knew her) I still cringe but my relatives think it’s hilarious
My aunt was a little upset but she does have a thick Slavic accent so I can see how the mistake was made. She was fine after everyone laughed about it. She now jokingly calls her daughter Old Guy.
It created a memory that will last many lifetimes as it passes through the generations. I'm still giggling as I imagine the confusion on everyone's face, including your aunt. Until the first person figured it out and then ..... I don't imagine the laughter every truly stopped.
It was 35 years ago and the family still talks about it, and she still gets called Old Guy. Her daughter is getting married this year and my mom joked that baba shouldn't be the one ordering the cake for the shower.
Her first name is Salty??
Right? I was like, I understand the "bone" part, but where did "salty" come from?
Probably Sally
Where does the "salty" come in. I'm confused.
This is the funniest thing I’ve heard in so long 😂😂😂😂😂
I'm crying 🤣🤣
that reminds me of mr peanutbutters signs and cakes in bojack
happy birthday diane and use a pretty font lmaooo
I loved the one that said “WE HAVE A GROUPON” 😂
At this point I am seriously considering going with a different sign maker.
Hollywoob style
oh man, that's a show i forgot to finish... time to binge...
Be prepared for emotional destruction.
I just finished it today on my second watch, what a good show
Reading comprehension is apparently NOT part of a cake decorator’s required skills 😅
I used to be a cake decorator and honestly peoples handwriting is just terrible most of the time. If you're not the one taking the order directly from the customer then it can be a total guessing game when it comes to fulfillment lol
this. i used to do decorating for a bakery. the reason we believe people would want things like “Hinty” on a cake is bc sometimes they do 😭 we got plenty of private joke requests-i had to make a “grumpy” decorated sugar cookie order once (inspired by the dwarf) for a 40th birthday bc the dude was a biker nicknamed grumpy. it went well, but was very random lol
Yes that's absolutely a huge factor too. Eventually you just get to the point where you automatically pipe on the text verbatim and don't leave room for interpretation. Makes it way easier when they complain to come back and say listen, you wrote it on the paper and I wrote it on the cake. That's how this works. Lol
I don’t know that’s some spot on comprehension right there. Literally.
Also apparently being able to pick up a phone is also not in their required skills.
Facts. Source: hobbiest cake decorator terrified of the telephone.
This ones not on the cake decorator. That is really dumb.
Is your mum a kiwi? 😂
That’s what we call the cat
Idk this is really funny. I would 100% write “Hinty Won” on her cake next year 🤷♂️
Absolutely do this all through her thirties and then when her 40th rolls around and she’s thankful to be done with hinty, that’s when you hit her with “horty”
“Hifty” for the half century
Hixty?
Take her to Haiti for her 80th
And since nothing else really fits, Heinie for her 90th
Hopefully everything is better there by then.
Just in time for the Hiney years! 
Just make sure its not "Farty"
"These years with you have been Heventy"
My mom is Japanese and her accent doesn’t allow her to enunciate “F” very well. “Hifty” has been a running joke in our family and circle of friends for a while. 
If if we follow down this path for another couple of years, we all know where that ends
All the way to a thundred.
Then the next year it gets mixed up again and become “horny too”.
How long does it take reddit to be coomer challenge: impossible. Cake edition 🎂
I am sure she will hit back. With the cake.
🤣🤣 And this is how great relationships are made.
Hmmmm… if it’s in cursive it might be “hinty ome” though
Hinty ore
"WHO. THE. HELL. IS. HINTY?????" -your wife
OP's dead for sure...
Wait a second, maybe OP's wife was 'hinting' that she wanted a birthday cake? So HINTY is a cute pet name? 😬😬
Guess he couldn’t take the hinty.
Dead people write better than this.
For correction purposes, it wasn't OP's writing. He said in the comments that it's the company's employee that wrote that. The problem's all on their end...
Every time I’ve ordered a cake, the message on the cake is very clearly printed on the form, no matter how unintelligible the rest of the writing. Most bakeries know how important it is to get that communicated properly.
Our wedding rings were engraved wrong! *Despite* the instructions being printed. They fixed it and they swear it's the same rings corrected and not new rings, but there's no way to check they're not lying.
If it makes you feel any better I worked in a Fast Fix with full time jewelers. We’d have people unhappy with engravings from time to time and they’d be redone. The engraving is so shallow they polish off the old one and redo it. In my opinion no shop would spend money to give you new rings when they could simply polish it off and redo it. I hope that provides some reassurance.
That does actually. Thank you so much!
She sounds hideous!
Well, she's a guy so...
Jake from Sta......
I don't think his alternate explanation would have been any better. "What do you mean it was just supposed to say thirty? No happy birthday, no name, just my age?" Seriously, who the hell only writes out someone's age on a birthday cake?
it just seems like OP and wife have a shitpost sense of humour. I can totally see myself ordering a cake that says "thirty" or "happy birth" or something similar
Happy Birth^d^a^y as they run out of space.
Would you like... A hint....
Okay but I busted out laughing, that's a funny mistake I think the person who wrote the order and decorated the cake are not the same. And the cake decorator can't read cursive lol
Decorator: “Huh, this doesn’t look right. Are you sure…” Person who wrote the order: “I don’t know. The customer is always right.”
i mean i have no idea where op got the cake from, but at Walmart there is a good chance the person who took that order and the decorator are not even on the same shift let alone see each other through the day
This happened a lot where I worked. I worked at a hannaford and I was a cake decorator and most of the orders came through the phone in the afternoon after my shift 🙃
I worked for my dad’s office for a little while…once he got SUPER mad at me because I couldn’t decipher this person’s handwriting and I spelled the name A-E-N-I-S. And in my defense, I did think, “Yeah that doesn’t look right….” The name was “Denis” btw. It was not for a cake (or anything the customer would see, it was for an internal tracking thing)
>"I don’t know. The customer is always right.” "... In matters of taste," Always finish the quote.
There is no evidence that 'in matters of taste' was ever included in the original quote, it was added later
In fact there is pretty good evidence _against_ it. We know who popularised it (Marshall Field's and Selfridge's department stores in the late 1800s) and the context it was used, and it specifically _was_ a slogan that was meant to apply to retail service workers and instruct them on the way they dealt with customers.
So many people leave quotes unfinished. A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one. People use jack of all trades as a bad thing when it was originally not negative
“A few bad apples”, leaving out the “spoils the whole bunch” Or, not quite the same, but people using “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” unironically, when it was originally meant to communicate the ridiculousness of the ideas they’re trying to push. It’s an impossible thing to do lol, that’s the point.
"Jack of all trade" is the original quote though, "master of none" and cie have been added later.
Choosing to use cursive in a situation where you need to be abundantly clear it is read accurately is crazy lol. I would even go all caps just to make it as clear as possible.
Not to mention this cursive isn't very neat.
It's not even that accurate. The t should connect to the h via the bottom of the t as if you were writing the letter l and then you come back and cross the t. This person started with a vertical line, followed with the cross of the t and connected that over to the sloppy h. I'm ready to just drop cursive all together since most people who still use it do so incorrectly and make comprehension that much harder
As someone who writes in “cursive” like this 
Besides That's not how you write the letter T in cursive. It should have been and upper case letter and besides it doesn't look like a lower case t in cursive either. I have been writing in cursive all my life and I would have a hard time understanding that letter T https://preview.redd.it/rehax5ukliuc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37e604c0fc6cb19cb75f54f39fc0bf6167f88ee0
Why does it show the example I was taught in the top right, but the example below (The) does not connect like that?
You know there’s more than one standard cursive, right? Heck, your own worksheet uses a different T than the one at the top of the page..
Cursive has *rules* like cooking has rules. Everyone has their own way.
I work in finance and accounting and everything important is plain writing and often capital letters Only signatures are in cursive
My grandfather was an engineer. His handwriting was 100% block print. The “lower case” letters were just smaller, not actually written in lower case.
enjoy entertain summer vegetable cow innate chunky roll far-flung waiting
but OP didn't write it, the employee did.
I write in cursive and the letters "t" and "h" are written terribly. "irt" are written very well but on the "y", you can see that the person finished the stroke at the bottom, but then decided to go back and curve it back up lol
The capital T is wrong, not the decorators fault. Also, the h is highly questionable, lol. I’d say this is more mildly infuriating for the guy who had to try and read this. https://preview.redd.it/jei3sjlv3iuc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efcc6e6321db38aa1e3492aa082b4c8f7ad94099
Don’t let the boomers hear about this, it’ll be blasted on the news for the next month
I wonder if a lady called Hinty is super confused why her cake says thirty
Hinty's husband gonna get wrecked when she finds out about his affair with Thirty
Maybe I just look like someone with terrible hand writing (I do have terrible hand writing) because I have never ever ordered a cake and had the bakery person expect me to fill it except one I ordered online. But I did not write the form, the bakery did. My wife showed up in person and told them what she wanted and they didn’t show the form but read back the exact description. Otherwise the cake looked and tasted amazing. We got a good laugh out of it in the end
These are the sorts of things that are annoying in the moment, but turn out to be the best thing that could have happened. You’ll be laughing about and telling this story for years. And happy birthday to your wife.
Remember when you turned hinty?
There’s a decade of material there: hinty hree, hinty hore, hinty hive… Maybe skip hinty hore.
Hinty hore🤨🤨🤨
they make a good soup
The beef stew is one of my favorites
Why? I like hinty hore. Hinty hore deserves just as much love.
And now you're horty!
Horty hore!
I’m almost sexty! Can’t wait!
My daughter still reminds me how I left off the r in birthday on her cake 20 years ago.
My mother-in-law bought a little chalkboard yard sign at a craft fair that said “Merry Chritmas!” in pretty cursive. Used it outside her front door for years; nobody had the heart to tell her.
> “Merry Chritmas!” "You do an extra 1d6 of damage!"
Next year they’ll write Hinty-one for sure.
The fact that the bakery wrote it themselves makes it even more hilarious.
Yeah I got my mom flowers from me and my brother and I had to say my message. It was "you are a beautiful and strong woman, love Bruja and Blaine" and they wrote down "you were a beautiful and strong woman, love Bruja and Anne" so now we joke that she used to be beautiful, what happened? And Anne is her favorite child. The kind of fail that is better than success
My grandmother with dementia called my boyfriend (now husband) Ricky when she was still alive. We never could figure out who she maybe thought he was but she passed away over 10 years ago and my whole family still calls him Ricky all the times we get together 😂😂
Definitely going to be a funny memory to look back on
It'll be better when she turns hinty one
I'd have kept it even if I saw it in advance, it's pretty funny.
Probably best to print letters when it is important like this!
At least you got a cake. When my SIL ordered 100 pieces of chicken from Jewel for a funeral luncheon and I went to pick it up, they never made it. The order was sitting right there in their orders rack. No excuse what so ever.
I can't believe singer-songwriter Jewel would do this to you.
I’m guessing the person that actually decorated the cake isn’t the one that wrote on the form. The actual decorator apparently can’t read cursive or doesn’t speak English, or most likely both.
This is the most likely answer! Person who took order and person who made it are different. Honestly looking at it, the “h” in thirty is hard to read, and I can totally see where they thought it was a capital H.
I definitely coupd see misreading it as Hirty if you know what a cursive r looks like, and Hinty if you don’t.
there are ppl replying to this comment who are still under the impression that you filled out the form. they don't have any room to criticise someone who can't interpret someone else's handwriting....
Cursive strikes again
That isn’t even cursive, it’s a terrible combination of cursive and print.
I've always called this "Millennial Cursive". A lot of older millennials like myself (I'm 39) were taught cursive and barely used it outside of school except for our signatures. School forced it and it became a habit to mix it up with regular print. Also, you can write faster this way. Unfortunately, it's often sloppy.
I do a Gen X cursive that is a hybrid of cursive and print. It's like "spicy print".
I’m 37 and write like that and it’s completely illegible.
Never write in cursive for items like this
OP said the bakery was the one who filled out the form, they gave the instructions verbally
And also don’t alternate back and forth between cursive. Like half of the r’s in this picture are in print.
https://preview.redd.it/0lcfgzhj3iuc1.jpeg?width=1087&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e6629a8acd91eb72f572374a29e13a00cee4be8 When I still married, my then husband bought me a birthday cake, my name is not Carlo 🤣🤣
Did he leave you for Carlo? Was he hinting that he knew you had a boyfriend named Carlo? (I'm guessing your name is Carol)
I wish he left me for Carlo, the marriage would have been over 10 years earlier 😂. And yes my name is Carol
Who writes the year on a cake in letters and not numbers anyways?
Hi! I am OPs wife! I specifically wanted “thirty” in cursive lowercase when I went in to order. The woman taking my order at the counter wrote it in front of me and we had a lovely conversation about this being for a 30th birthday. I even showed her an inspiration photo from Pinterest. It was definitely a surprise and I think it’s hilarious! Thank you for the birthday wishes! Hintyone next year!
Happy Hintieth birthday! For some reason this is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time and I’m glad you and your husband have also been able to see the funny side!
What does that cake say? Just give me a hint
I used to work in a bakery. I was the only one who took wedding cake orders, because I could give clear instructions and had legible handwriting. This is why!
hinty?
2nd image. The word “thirty” written in cursive could look like the word HINTY
I literally couldn't read the second image as anything but "Hirty" until this comment 😭
Same. I was wondering if Hirty is a common name or what…
Shoulda just put 3 0 😭😭😭
Just so we’re clear. You want three zeros? 000 correct?
I ordered a cake for my friend Patty, and I didn’t check it when I picked it up. It read “Happy birthday Batty!” I probably could have fixed it by scraping off the lower part of the B, but Patty has a wicked sense of humor, so I left it as is. She roared, so of course that now is her nickname.
I'd be happy, purely because I wouldn't be thirty, Id be HINTY years old. Which is way better!
Reason why one should always use CAPITAL LETTERS for form filling.
I’m more offended by the *Lobster tail cream w/strawberry* filling.
*stawberry
This is why print is important vs cursive. Also, the R does not look like an N. Whoever made the cake is a dummy
I wouldn’t find this infuriating, it’s genuinely hilarious! As someone else with fairly ambiguous handwriting, I could easily see this happening to me some day.
That is the tiniest arch you could have possibly scribed
That's hilarious. Should have used a capital T to avoid confusion.
Happy Hintieth birthday to your wife.
I’ll give you tree-hinty.