Current mood:	amused
Current music:	FFX - Underwater

Behold the Power of Cake
I always knew people liked cake. But I didn't know how much until yesterday...
I'm serious. There I am at work, decorating a cake at the end of class. (Instructors don't have to bring a cake, but I feel my students are happier without me hovering over their shoulders the last 30-45 minutes of class while they decorate their cakes. So I bring one in to decorate. Keeps them happy and me in practice. But I'm going off subject.)
My boss from that account, Catherine, is there and she's like - "I love the smell of icing. I love when you teach class. Mmm, it always smells so good."
So, I had just had one class at a different account Saturday, so I told her "This cake is for you guys, I'm leaving it."
And she was all excited. She was like - "Really?! Oh, I can't wait. I'm following you to the break room, cuz I know the minute you put that cake down everyone will close in, like vultures. I'm serious, in a matter of minutes noone will be working, they'll all be in the break room eating cake."
And I was like - yah, yah, pretty funny.
But when I was cleaning up after class one of the other employees came in and she told her. "She's leaving us cake."
And the other lady was like. "Really? Cake?"
So I finish. I pick it up, and I told her. "I'm taking it to the break room, you wanted to come?"
"Oh, yes, I'm coming."
So as we're walking back there, me carrying the cake, two employees come out of the break room and they stop, and watch us. "Cake?" One asks.
"Yah, it's for us." - Catherine
"You sure you want to leave early?" She asks the other worker.
"I don't know now..." - Employee #2
So we enter the break room and there's 5 or 6 people, and they're all like. "Cake?"
"Is that for us?"
"Is it real? We can eat it?" (Explanation - I made one out of styrofoam to advertise the class previously.)
So Catherine is like - "See, I told you? Vultures."
"Yes, it's real, it's for all of you." I tell them.
And they're all like, "Cake!"
"I want a piece!"
So I say goodbye and Catherine is already washing off a cake cutter, go back to the room to get my collection of stuff, and one lady comes in, picks up the phone and dials, and I hear her go. "We've got cake in the break room. Yep, come get some."
And as I'm leaving with "Mom" (She gives me rides to work.), here comes another employee, heading down to the break room. "They called me about the cake."
I'm sitting there thinking - Wow, I never knew cake had this much of an effect on people.
Okay, had to share that. Oh, by the way, I changed my journal's look and pictures. Cool, huh?

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