Okay, is there a "please be diffcult with me sign on me?" Okay, if you saw my cake I posted this weekend, you saw where I actually had a friend of the bride try to work and change my cake, while I was taking pictures of it! Anywho....
Okay, I last week I meet with these two sisters and they pick out several cakes for me to email to their cousins in FL. After taking all this time, they don't even look at the email and I have to meet with them, the sisters and their cousins, this week. They arrives 45minutes late, and it's five women and a child. They are talking and fussing, eeerr! Anyway, they preced to tell me how this lady, what's her name, KNOW'S about cakes, she worked at Publix for a few months! Okay, what's that supposed to mean??
She keeps saying things like she could do this and this, and then looking at me and saying, "Right?" She keeps filding with my stuff and all around driving me crazy! Well, they finally pick a cake and she says to me, " Can you do this cake by Saturday?" Now this was on Monday. I reply back, " Honey I am doing this cake plus three others and if I get the chance I'll do more!!!"
Right before I get her out the door they mention that they would like something that says happy b-day, but they don't want it wrote on the cake, it's a present cake. I suggest a name tag or writing on the board, and that she could make a card to match the decorations and place it next to the cake. They don't like any of those ideas, and she asks well don't you have any of those glass peices you write on and put into the cake? I tell her I don't know what she's talking about, why is putting glass in a cake? She laughs and tells me how she will have to come out and show me how to work on cakes!!!
Okay, I know this is long, but lord this made me so mad!!! Thanks for listening!!

i think i would have told her that if she needed to show me how to decorate that she could have done this herself and NOT been wasting my time! I dont mind when more than one person is involved when deciding on the cake but i dont like it when they fuss like school children! Sorry you had to deal with that! hope it gets better

Exactly what Whitney (MissLady85) said.

And again, why even bother you when they have a resident cake decorator in the family.

To me it sounds like a fishing expedition on their part and all that flam about 'worked at Publix' was to let you know, none too subtly that you wouldn't be pulling the wool over their eyes or 'robbing them blind' if you were lucky enough to get the order...

As everyone knows, all independent cake bakers and decorators are genetically programmed to take advantage of unsuspecting 'lambs' - you're all 'wolves in fondue clothing'.

So I'm confused, did you accept to do a cake for these people or what? I agree it sounds like a fishing expedition too. I'm curious to know what happens. You make pretty cakes by the way.

This is the funny part, I guess... ..if there is one, I had done agreed to do the cake before meeting with them, when we were emailing each other. I had the job...I was stuck with them !

My mother came throgh while they were there and was trying to calm the little boy down that was screaming bloodly murder! Somehow something was said about my my mother being a hairdresser and one of the said oh, I do hair. She asked my mom if she owned her own shop and she told her, " yes, I do own my shop, We have just been open a year and half and we just found out we've been approved as a Paul Mitchell Signature Salaon, we're really excited!" She rolls her eyes at my mother and tells her she doesn't use Paul Mitchell.

Okay...things are still okay...then the *#&! hits the fan! This lady tells my mother, " Yay, some people tell me I should open up a shop here in Tenn, but I've seen what you people charge! I couldn't make a living here!" My mother looking like this at this point sits the child down and walks off. My mother told me after they left, she almost told her to leave her home, that she had made a living and paid for, and never come back !! But ,being a wonderful mother, she didn't.

Oh, you poor child.

We'll all be praying for you.