LadyDy
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 WHITE LIE CAKE
Have you ever told a white lie?
You are going to love this,
especially all of those who bake for church events.
Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the
Baptist Church Ladies' Group in Tuscaloosa ,
but forgot to do it until the last minute.
She remembered the morning of the bake sale;
and, after rummaging through cabinets,
found an angel food cake mix & quickly
made it while drying her hair, dressing,
& helping her son pack for Scout camp.
When Alice took the cake from the oven,
the center had dropped flat
and the cake was horribly disfigured.
She thought,
'Oh dear, there is not time
to bake another cake.'
This cake was important to Alice
because
she did so want to fit in at her new church
and in her new community of friends.
So, being inventive,
she looked around the house for something
to build up the center of the cake.
Alice found it in the bathroom -
a roll of toilet paper.
She plunked it in and covered it with icing.
Not only did the finished product look beautiful,
it looked perfect.
Before she left the house to drop the
cake by the church
and head for work,
Alice woke her daughter Amanda and gave her
some money and specific instructions
to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at 9:30
and to buy the cake and bring it home.
When Amanda arrived at the sale,
she found the attractive,
perfect
cake
had already been sold.
She grabbed her cell phone
and called her mom.
Alice was horrified -
she was beside herself.
Everyone would know!
What would they think?
She would be ostracized,
talked about,
and ridiculed!
All night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking
about people pointing fingers at her and
talking about her behind her back.
The next day,
Alice promised herself she would try not to think
about the cake and would attend the fancy
luncheon/bridal shower at the home of a fellow
church member and try to have a good time.
Alice did not want to attend because the hostess
was a snob who more than once had looked down
her nose at Alice because she was a single parent
and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa but,
having already RSVP'd, she couldn't think
of a believable excuse to stay home.
The meal was elegant, the company was definitely
upper crust old South and,to Alice 's horror,
the cake in question was presented
for dessert!
Alice felt the blood drain from her body
when she saw the cake!
She started out of her chair to tell the hostess
all about it, but before she could get to her feet,
the Mayor's wife said, 'What a beautiful cake !'
Alice still stunned,
sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess
(who was a prominent church member) say,
'Thank you, I baked it myself.'
Alice smiled and thought to herself,
'God is good.'
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starzlookdown
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Re: WHITE LIE CAKE
That's the best one I've heard in a long time!
:^D
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The point of the journey,
is not "to arrive"...
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8/11/2008, 4:26 pm
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mom2acat
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good one!
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8/20/2008, 1:11 pm
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