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 it 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, and helping
her son pack for scout camp.
When she
took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped
flat
And the cake
was horribly disfigured and she
exclaimed,
"Oh dear,
there is not time
to bake another cake!"
So, being
inventive, she looked around the
house
for
something to build up the center of the
cake.
She found
it in the bathroom - a roll of toilet
Paper.
She
plunked it in and then covered it with
icing.
Not only
did the finished product look beautiful,
it looked
perfect.
And,
before she left the house to drop the cake by
the church
and head for work,
Alice
woke her daughter 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
the daughter
arrived at the sale, she found the
attractive,
perfect
cake had already
been sold.
Amanda
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,
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. She did not want to
attend
because
the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked
down her
nose
at the fact that Alice was a single parent and not
from the
founding
families of Tuscaloosa, but having already RSVP'd,
she
couldn't
think of an 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
desert!
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,
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