This troper works in a bakery. While she can understand the anxiety someone might feel at the prospect of their $500 wedding cake ending up smashed on the floor, it's a little irritating hearing, "Be careful! Don't drop it!" when she carries out several large cakes a week without a single mishap yet.

Gravity seems to like me when I'm holding some food that would seem hard to carry and easy to drop, as the food I'm holding doesn't even seem to drop when It's tilted, when I'm actually ''eating'' it however...

This troper's carrying a cake story led into a tragedy. My grandmother was carrying a cake when she was hit by a car. She wasn't very injured, but the hospital found she had to have surgery on her heart. She died before she was able to return home.

This is why this troper's mom needed her engagement ring replaced the second time (the first time we were mugged and the bastard got away with all Mom's jewellery). She was carrying a cheesecake from the car to a party and tripped over a crack in the side walk. She managed to save the cake but she landed on the diamond in a funny position and it cracked.

The diamond cracked? Isn't diamond supposed to be the hardest substance on earth or something?

They're hard but brittle. It's quite easy to smash one with a hammer.

To this day, This troper's mother refuses to carry a cake. When she was young, this troper's grandmother decided to buy a plain cake for my grandfather and decorate it at home. My mother begged to carry it. Once they were outside - she dropped the cake. They went back inside, bought another cake, and my mother promised not the drop it. They got outside - she dropped it. She wasn't allowed to carry the third cake.

This troper bought five cupcakes, arrived at the bus stop just in time for the bus home after walking as fast as she could without actually running through the middle of town, sat in the last available seat, and then carried them about a mile home from her stop. They arrived okay, but damned if I wasn't thinking of this trope the whole time. ''"It's my biiirsday..."''no, it's not. But that's the song!

This troper's 8th grade history class made pyramids out of sugar cubes. Her (tiny) friend brought her group's home. This troper cheerfully relegated her friend with "dooooon't drop it!" the entire way home.

This troper once worked in a grocery store which sold wedding cakes, but did not deliver. Once one customer, who was already a jerk anyway, absolutely insisted that the cake be delivered so this troper was tasked with delivering it. In the back of a pick-up truck. With no box. At the reception, there was no one there to recieve it, and this troper had to unload the cake, which probably weighed about thirty or forty pounds, by herself. By this point, the cake had pretty much been reduced to a pile of crumbs. So, this troper had two choices: load the cake back into the truck and drive back, or just leave it on the back step. This troper was already pissed at the idiot customer so she just left it there. A few hours later, the customer called back, furious, to which the manager simply said, "yes, and '''''this''''' is why we don't deliver", and slammed down the phone.

This Troper and his family were once taking some pies to a family Thanksgiving at his aunt's place. Carrying a lemon meringue pie out to the car, his foot hit a slick spot and he fell over backwards. You know what you get when you subject a lemon meringue pie to a sudden shock? You get lemon soup.

This Troopers dad was driving his car up a hill, cake in the back seat, when he got rear ended... needless to say, the cake went everywhere.

Additinionally, this Trooper once attempted to bring a Strawberry Cheesecake for her friends to enjoy on the bus (afternoon) for her birthday... by the time she met up with her friends, the cake on the top-tier had started getting really mushy... yet the bottom tier seemed just fine.

Moral of the story: if you plan on hauling a cheesecake around for 10 hours, make sure that it's been frozen when you get it out and try to keep it cool if you can.. OR be sure to wrap ALL of it up in aluminum foil! (The trooper only used some to seperate the pieces stored on the bottom from the ones put on top, and carried it all in a plastic container. (that apparently had an air vent of some sort))