The Great Cake Debate

I just need piece of mind

Generally, I do not be caring.

Social media is a place where people come to be—well, social. For some that means needlessly argumentative, and insufferable, but for others, it’s a joyous place where we can see photos of dogs who look like celebrities, read about new movie news, or come together as a cheering collective to watch a former president get locked up. Me myself personally, I like to keep my social media joyous, I mean just LOOK at my Instagram explore page.

I dare you to have a bad thought when you open up Instagram and this is the first thing you see. You won’t! I guarantee it!

However, sometimes posts about real life debacles, gibes, and overall annoying situations trickle across my feed, as is what happened yesterday. Now, this isn’t one of those situations where it’s like omg, you need to get out of there, you’re going to killed! It is merely a very annoying thing that happened, needlessly—but it happened all the same. Still, I can’t get it out of my head. Here’s the post:

It’s kind of funny how this ties into Now That I Mention It turning a year old. Where’s my birthday cake!!!

Now, if you have more pressing things to do than read this newsletter—you must Beyoncé, otherwise, you got time! But if it’s still too long for you to read, I’ll summarize it for you.

Essentially it’s this guy’s birthday, his girlfriend offers to make a cake, he tells her he wants a chocolate cake, with chocolate icing—that’s it. She makes the cake, but puts vanilla icing in between the layers. She asked if he was disappointed, he said yes, because it isn’t what he wanted, and now she’s mad.

Like I said before—it’s not a huge thing, but it’s also just so… weird? If you offer to do something for someone—they didn’t ask—you offered, why wouldn’t you just do that thing instead of going off script? It reminds me of those friends (and sometimes parents) who go out of their way to do things for other people, and then demand this outpouring of thanks (which you should absolutely do when people do things for you, show them you appreciate them!) but don’t understand when you aren’t ecstatic about it. This is also known as martyrdom.

The thing that’s so funny to me is that she went through more effort to include the vanilla icing than if she just did the chocolate icing he asked for. It’s not a big deal! Technically, he didn’t overreact or make a scene, but she’s still upset, and the internet is split. What do you think?

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