Don't Know How I Feel About This Customer
Business By littlecake Updated 2 Aug 2008 , 8:03pm by Denise
Do you have a picture of the cake she wants you to test run?
-Debbie B.
she said they got it out of a brides mag....i'll see if i can find it online...it is kinda cool...icing ferns...real acorns and leaves...she said they are having a "fairy" wedding...there is a garden fairy bride and groom the bride has already bought.
the lady did seem pretty cool...i guess most of my customers treat me like i'm the best thing since sliced bread, i'm just not used to being doubted....it is kinda cool being in a smallish town, the locals get very loyal and think their cakelady is da "bees knees"...i need to have a customer apprecaition day or something, they really are good to me here. 
The more I think about it, the more I think that the next time I want to order a big cake, I might by a small one first, actually. Certainly it gives more enjoyment than the two or three bites you get from the average sampling at a tasting, and I can share it with family and friends. ...it was pretty tactless to call it a "sample" cake, though. At least without more of an explanation than that! ("Yes, I'd really like to try this specialty flavor, and I like to share it with my family, so can I purchase an 8" round cake in that flavor?")
my most hated thing, is when they call asking for directions to the shop...and then wanna know if it's on the west or east or north or whatever...i just tell em i dunno...i left my compass at home.
And it's usually a guy doing that right? I just tell 'em, "Look, you're talking to a girl, so you're not allowed to use words like "north" and "west". You turn left at Burger King."
my most hated thing, is when they call asking for directions to the shop...and then wanna know if it's on the west or east or north or whatever...i just tell em i dunno...i left my compass at home.
And it's usually a guy doing that right? I just tell 'em, "Look, you're talking to a girl, so you're not allowed to use words like "north" and "west". You turn left at Burger King."
I can give directions somewhere unless I have a migraine...then I just tell them they'll have to mapquest it because I already know I can't do it. I'm good at the compass thing, though, I always know which way I'm facing without a compass (drives my husband crazy, I have some little issues like the bed needs to be set up so our feet point south when we sleep, and my stove needs to face north, which it doesn't in this apartment, it faces east 
shouldn't matter, but it always has)
I never used to be able to tell left from right, but I had to teach my daughter so I just told her that there's the hand you write with (right) and then the one that's left over. Since I came up with that for her, I've been able to remember it myself
My daughter brought in a cake I made for a bake sale where she works. Her manager loved it and in fact, bought quite a few pieces herself at the bake sale. A few weeks later, the same manager asked my daughter to ask me if I would make a cake for her daughter's birthday, but she wanted a cake to sample beforehand. I told my daughter I was sorry but I didn't do sample cakes for anyone. Her manager had already tasted one cake at the bake sale, but then wanted another free one before she wanted to order her daughter's birthday cake. Wasn't going to happen with me.
Littlecake, it is always good to meet successful women who are dyslexic. My daughter will be 11 soon and she is dyslexic. I'm still having a hard time getting her school to admit to it though. They call it an unidentified learning disability but she could potentially be going in 6th grade this year and still reverses things constantly. Whole pages of math problems with reversed answers. She is almost 11 and STILL has problems knowing right from left, over and under, telling time (gets the numbers switched around).
ACK! Can you tell I'm frustrated. However, she is an extremely bright young lady and an incredible artist. I know she will go far but it is hard to keep her from getting frustrated so I like to remind her of the extremely successful dyslexic population.
It just dawned on my I totally hijacked this. Sorry.
My opinion on the cake is...do it. They are paying you for it so do it and knock their socks off. Make sure your contract is in order and go for it. If you do this for this guy, he may have quite a bit more business for you down the line.
I'm just reading through this and got this far so I am jumping on the hijack here for a second. I know littlecake won't mind.
My kid is adhd with a learning disability in reading. He has a near genius IQ. I homeschooled him for two years early on. He was 'on' this particular day because he had signed a greeting card and got it right. He was standing at the board gonna copy spelling words. The book was on his left--he got them alllll backwards.
sigh.
For some reason I set the book on his right side to copy from we knocked it down or something. He got every one spot on.
When the book was on his left, his eyes had to track from the board all the way across the page and then start reading left to right and transfer all that to the board.
When the book was on his right, his eyes tracked from the board to the first letter of the word and across and he got every one perfect. He did not have to track all the was across the page to begin. The first thing his eye landed on was the corect way to reproduce the letter/word.
Y'know maybe that's well known for folks who work with reading disabilities but it was a breakthrough for us.
The other thing is something kinda crazy but it works. At the time nobody knew why. Placing a red transperancy on top of the page of reading they need to do will help those little eyes track better. I still don't know why but it's easy to try and it worked for him.
Fast forward about 15 years~~he got a 4.0 in college.
So now I will go back and finish reading the thread. Sorry for continuing the hijack but I have to share those hard earned lessons.
Yes I can see how that would be annoying to do a sample like that kinda sorta. I mean if they come back and critique your work and say they want it less sweet or more sweet or something that would bite.
During one of my 'retirements' from caking my boss (who hated me btw) asked me to do her wedding cake. Y'know, I was just surprised someone actually wanted to marry her icey little self but anyway. She asked me and I said yes. How you gonna tell hatchet lady no I don't think so.
So she called me in her office one day (help me mommy) and said just humor me for a moment, I need to ask you a question, Do you put the little squigglies and shell borders around your cakes? I said yes. She knew I did because of the cakes I'd done for whatever work event over the years. So she had to ask because her beloved wanted her to clear that up.
Oh my gawd I don't think I ever stressed over a cake like I did that one. But all that to say there's no tellin what the real reason is for that request. Maybe someone in the family got a bad cake once and blabla who knows?
It's interesting that she spied out the land in such a round about way though.
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