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My mom just told me her own cake wreck story. A few years ago, she ordered a cake for her sister-in-law, who is named Elvira, but who goes by the name Teeny. (I don't know how this got started, but it's what we all call her.) So, my Mom calls Wegman's and asks for the message "Happy Birthday Teeny." When she went to pick it up, she discovered that instead it read:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FANG
Eventually, she and the woman behind the counter traced the mistake back to sloppy handwriting on the part of whoever took the message. The "T" became an "F", the two "e"s mushed together into an "a", the "n" stayed intact, and the "y" looked like a "g." Mom was quickly given another cake, and she tells me that Teeny probably wouldn't have found as much humor in the "Fang" cake as my Mom did.
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