Current Events > Mom refuses to pay for $31 gender reveal party cupcakes after dog destroyed them

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A mum-to-be has revealed her 25 gender reveal cupcakes were knocked onto the floor by the bakers dog but they are still demanding payment. According to the 22-year-old expectant mother she was left disappointed after the box of sweet treats was sent plummeting before a party she was due to hold over the Easter weekend for family and friends.

The baker still wants her to pay the 25 they'd agreed upon prior to collection, but she doesn't think she should.

A few days before the Saturday event, she reached out to a local baker to make an order of 12 cupcakes "with pink and blue icing on top, and pink icing in the middle". When she went round on Friday evening to pick them up, however, disaster struck.

the Mirror reports the fed-up woman recalled: "I drove to her apartment and knocked on the door. She greeted me there with the box of cupcakes and they looked amazing.

"They were exactly how I imagined them and I thanked her for them. She gave me the box, but just as she did, her large pet dog came running up to me, barking, and jumped at me, knocking the box of cupcakes all over the floor."

The baker apologised before shutting the dog inside, explaining that he just gets excited by visitors and wouldn't have meant her any harm.

At first, she didn't realise how much damage had been done to the cupcakes, as the box had landed upside down.

Upon further inspection, however, she saw how "the icing had smashed all over the box". Some of the cakes had even fallen out on the ground.

She continued: "The baker looked horrified as I understand she spent a few hours making them for me. She apologised and said she could remake them for free, but they wouldn't be ready until Sunday.

"I said, unfortunately, I'm expecting my guests tomorrow and Sunday is no good, as I already had other plans. I explained I wouldn't be paying for these cupcakes as they were inedible and ruined by her dog. We agreed payment upon receiving the goods, and since I never received them, I wouldn't be paying."

The baker went on to argue however that she should still pay, given that she'd been left out of pocket after buying the ingredients. She refused, and headed off without the cupcakes, but now feels guilty and wonders whether or not she did the right thing.

Full Article: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1759408/baker-dog-destroyed-cupcakes-payment-row

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Now that's what I call a sticky situation!

Probs a pibblle

lol paying for something your fucking dog ruined. no thank you.

The baker should be thankful its only a small loss instead of hundreds. Now she lost a customer for not being to realize how easily shes wrong here

I want to comment on this but I don't have any real input to offer.

I was going to side with the baker until I read it was the bakers dog that ruined them.

I wouldn't pay either.

Btw, gender reveal parties are dumb.

I mean, if its the bakers dog who knocked over the cupcakes and fuck that bakery, hes a greedy, douche bag.

St0rmFury posted...

Btw, gender reveal parties are dumb.

Why are these so irritable to people? The premise is a little hokey but what's the harm of getting everyone together to celebrate your upcoming birth, even if the reason for it isn't that big a deal.

I never thought I'd be asking this because I find them a little odd as well but people treat them like...I dunno...people who claim "YouTuber" as a career.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Why are these so irritable to people? The premise is a little hokey but what's the harm of getting everyone together to celebrate your upcoming birth, even if the reason for it isn't that big a deal.

I never thought I'd be asking this because I find them a little odd as well but people treat them like...I dunno...people who claim "YouTuber" as a career.

You just really want to argue with people don't you XD

I feel important if people want to take the time to bicker with me...

It's on the baker. If i'm at a restaurant and the server is coming to the table with my food, and they trip and drop it on the floor, I wouldn't expect them to just say "sorry" and give me the bill anyway without replacing it.

It's a pretty dumb move in general not putting the dog up when a customer is coming to pick up a food item, you have no idea if that person likes dogs, is terrified of them, that's bad practice in itself. She knows her dog, she knows it is likely to jump on visitors. That's on her.

She got the cupcakes in her hands and didn't secure it? Her fault. She should pay and tip the baker.

Sexypwnstar posted...

She got the cupcakes in her hands and didn't secure it? Her fault. She should pay and tip the baker.

Is there a tuck rule for picking up food orders or something?

@solid_sonic

I'm glad you called me out on it. After letting your words stew for a bit, I realised deep down I wasn't really annoyed at gender reveal parties and was just parroting the sentiments I've seen on reddit & YouTube because I was under the impression that almost everyone thinks it's stupid. So yeah.

Sexypwnstar posted...

She got the cupcakes in her hands and didn't secure it? Her fault. She should pay and tip the baker.

Domino's doesn't hold it against you if you screw up your pizza on the way home. They guarantee it since otherwise it'd be their own driver taking the liability (they also comp you for pickup for the same reason).

Too bad their pizza sucks...

St0rmFury posted...

@solid_sonic

I'm glad you called me out on it. After letting your words stew for a bit, I realised deep down I wasn't really annoyed at gender reveal parties and was just parroting the sentiments I've seen on reddit & YouTube because I was under the impression that almost everyone thinks it's stupid. So yeah.

Gender reveal parties have gotten somewhat notorious since people tend to make them into flashy spectacles that wind up backfiring in spectacular and destructive fashion but that isn't necessarily endemic to the concept (you could just as easily have an over-the-top birthday party go off the rails and have a similar outcome).

Wasn't there a guy who started a forest fire when trying to do a gender reveal party?

Yeah, it was a massive forest fire from one of these, 23,000 acres burned. They got charged with a ton of shit from what I remember.

Solid_Sonic posted...

people tend to make them into flashy spectacles that wind up backfiring in spectacular and destructive fashion

That having happened a handful of times out of thousands upon thousands of gender reveal events does not mean they tend to end up that way.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Gender reveal parties have gotten somewhat notorious since people tend to make them into flashy spectacles

The original gender reveal party involved cutting into a cake and seeing what color the middle layer of icing was. I have no idea how incendiaries became a requirement.

BB_mofo posted...

The original gender reveal party involved cutting into a cake and seeing what color the middle layer of icing was. I have no idea how incendiaries became a requirement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0SdxF0-pA

lol That baker is entitled. Fuck 'em.

Bakers dog=bakers fault
customers dog= customers fault

it really is that simple.

This one is on the baker. Her dog did the damage.

Do they have People's Court in the UK?

Solid_Sonic posted...

Why are these so irritable to people? The premise is a little hokey but what's the harm of getting everyone together to celebrate your upcoming birth, even if the reason for it isn't that big a deal.

I never thought I'd be asking this because I find them a little odd as well but people treat them like...I dunno...people who claim "YouTuber" as a career.

I find them irritable because people (usually) tend to use them as just another reason to get gifts.

If you have a baby shower, don't have a gender reveal party. No need to double dip.

And there's no real payoff, unless the Dad show obvious disappointment when it's reveled to be a girl.

Sexypwnstar posted...

She got the cupcakes in her hands and didn't secure it? Her fault. She should pay and tip the baker.

The baker ran her business from her home. The customer picked up and the stupid baker didnt secure her dog before opening the door to give the customer her cupcakes. Totally the bakers fault.

Cuticrusader09 posted...

The baker ran her business from her home. The customer picked up and the stupid baker didnt secure her stupid dog before opening the door to give the stupid customer her stupid cupcakes. Totally the bakers fault.

fixed it up to reflect my views

Cuticrusader09 posted...

The baker ran her business from her home. The customer picked up and the stupid baker didnt secure her dog before opening the door to give the customer her cupcakes. Totally the bakers fault.

This. She even says that her dog gets excited by visitors. If you know you have a large dog that's going to run up to people, maybe don't leave him out when a customer is coming for a pickup.

Bass_X0 posted...

I was going to side with the baker until I read it was the bakers dog that ruined them.

Sexypwnstar posted...

She got the cupcakes in her hands and didn't secure it? Her fault. She should pay and tip the baker.

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bigblu89 posted...

I find them irritable because people (usually) tend to use them as just another reason to get gifts.

If you have a baby shower, don't have a gender reveal party. No need to double dip.

And there's no real payoff, unless the Dad show obvious disappointment when it's reveled to be a girl.

...there's no payoff? The payoff is learning the gender. Obviously you don't care about that, but I can assure you the parents and their family do and get their "payoff" out of finding out. Who actually says edgy stuff like this anymore?

codey posted...

...there's no payoff? The payoff is learning the gender. Obviously you don't care about that, but I can assure you the parents and their family do and get their "payoff" out of finding out. Who actually says edgy stuff like this anymore?

I think his main point was you dont need to TWO parties to celebrate your upcoming baby, and theyre being a little greedy lol

well the payoff was going to be cupcakes...

I would think multiple hours of work and $31 would be for more than 12 cupcakes. Obviously this was a drug deal gone bad thanks to a drug sniffing dog.

codey posted...

...there's no payoff? The payoff is learning the gender. Obviously you don't care about that, but I can assure you the parents and their family do and get their "payoff" out of finding out. Who actually says edgy stuff like this anymore?

Yes. There's no payoff to anyone attending other than the parents.

And it's something that a phone call would also reveal. No need to have a 2nd party where you expect more gifts. Have you baby shower then call it a day till the kid is born.

codey posted...

...there's no payoff? The payoff is learning the gender. Obviously you don't care about that, but I can assure you the parents and their family do and get their "payoff" out of finding out. Who actually says edgy stuff like this anymore?

It's an entire event that could have just been a text message.

I should have been a journalist, then I could get payed for browsing reddit lol.

But yea, saw this a week or two ago, she posted this in AITA (am I the asshole) and it was pretty unanimous.

While I do think gender reveals are stupid, this one is completely non-destructive so "live and let live" imo.

A_Good_Boy posted...

It's an entire event that could have just been a text message.

So could birthday parties. Or weddings. Bar mitzvahs. Anything, really. People want to celebrate a life moment, why are we shaming that? Because 1 out of every 100,000 people goes to far with it like pretty much anything else?

bigblu89 posted...

Yes. There's no payoff to anyone attending other than the parents.

And it's something that a phone call would also reveal. No need to have a 2nd party where you expect more gifts. Have you baby shower then call it a day till the kid is born.

Ive never even seen gifts at a gender reveal party, but that's besides the point. The payoff is for the parents, quote obviously, but it's also for their family and friends to celebrate a.major.life moment. The gender is often the first thing you learn about a person you're going to raise for the rest of your life, it's a pretty big deal. Even before parties, it was a big deal to learn the gender, and shaming people for wanting to celebrate that and share it with their loved ones is bizarre.

The bakers dog did it, thats the bakers responsibility.

Im normally very anti-customer lol but theyre in the right for a change this time.

rexcrk posted...

Im normally very anti-customer

bruh

BB_mofo posted...

I have no idea how incendiaries became a requirement.

when explosives caused that forest fire it went too far.

UnfairRepresent posted...

bruh

Most customers are wrong though.

lww99 posted...

I think his main point was you dont need to TWO parties to celebrate your upcoming baby

TWO social events to celebrate one of the biggest life changing milestone moments in many peoples lives that will also directly impact the lives of those people invited to varying degrees!? How obnoxious can people be. Its a good thing the internet is swarming with curmudgeonly edgelords ready to shut down people trying to go beyond their allowed joy quotas.

lmfao what a melty

just say you want more free shit bruv

lww99 posted...

lmfao what a melty

just say you want more free shit bruv

Dont have kids, dont plan to have kids. Swing and a miss.

Thats probably a good thing.

GranQroppoop posted...

I would think multiple hours of work and $31 would be for more than 12 cupcakes. Obviously this was a drug deal gone bad thanks to a drug sniffing dog.

That's an interesting theory. Pot cupcakes?

I totally read this story on reddit the other day.

Dog is at fault, and the owner is to fault for the dog not being secured so..

Baker was a dumbass to think she would still be paid after that.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Gender reveal parties have gotten somewhat notorious since people tend to make them into flashy spectacles that wind up backfiring in spectacular and destructive fashion but that isn't necessarily endemic to the concept (you could just as easily have an over-the-top birthday party go off the rails and have a similar outcome).

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/8/3/AAEhCpAAENA7.jpg