Cake. I got a full-fledged birthday cake for the big 40. A big rectangular one with a guy shooting pool ac the confectioner’s decoration in the center. We went out for a great dinner, and when we came back, the cake was different. It looked as if someone had taken a knife and spatula, cut around the pool table and player, and carefully removed it from the cake without dropping a crumb anywhere or disturbing any other part of the cake. My wife immediately said our Belgian Shepherd, R1, did it. I though, “Impossible! How could she cut around it so cleanly and remove it without any damage to the cake?”
But she called R1 into the kitchen and pointing at the cake, asked R1, “Did you mess with the cake?”
R1’s head hung down, her tail went between her legs, and she slunk out of the kitchen with guilt written all over her. My wife was pretty pissed at the dog, because she’d gone to such lengths to get a cake with a guy shooting pool, a game I love. But I actually felt sorry for the poor pooch as much as for my wife’s disappointment. The cake was fine without the hard candy thing in the middle, and R1 got to enjoy my birthday too, even if she did have to pay for it in the heavy guilt trip after getting caught.