A Little White Lie

[DianaB]

I received this in an e-mail and thought that you might enjoy it!

Have you ever told a white lie? You are going to love this.
(Especially anyone who has baked for church events.)

Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church Ladies'
Group bake sale in Tuscaloosa, but she forgot about it until
the last minute.

She remembered it the morning of the bake sale and after
rummaging through cabinets she found an angel food cake mix and
quickly made it. While drying her hair and dressing and helping
her son Bryan pack up for Scout camp. But, when Alice took the
cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake
was horribly disfigured. She said, "Oh dear, there's no time
bake another cake."

This cake was so important to Alice because she did so want to
fit in at her new church and in her new community of new
friends.

So, being inventive , she looked around the house for something to
build up the center of the cake. Alice 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!

Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and
head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda and gave her some
money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the
minute it opened at 9:30, and to buy this cake and bring it
home.

When the daughter arrived at the sale, she found that the
attractive, perfect cake had already been sold! Amanda grabbed
her cell phone and called her mother.

Alice was horrified. She was beside herself.
Everyone would know! What would they think of her? She
would be ostracized, talked about, ridiculed.

That night Alice was lying awake in bed thinking about
people pointing their fingers at her and talking about
her behind her back.

The next day Alice promised herself that she would try
not to think about the cake and she would attend the
fancy luncheon/bridal shower at the home of a friend of a
friend and try to have a good time there.

She did not really want to attend because the hostess was
a real snob who more than once had looked down her nose
at Alice because Alice was a single parent and not from
one of the founding families of Tuscaloosa

Having already RSVP'd she could not think of a believable
excuse to stay away. The meal was elegant; the company
was definitely upper crust Old South...To Alice's horror,
the cake in question was presented for dessert!

Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw it
being brought in.
She started out of her chair to rush to the hostess and
tell her all about it, but before she could get to her
feet the Mayor's wife said, "What a beautiful cake!"

"Thank you", said the snobby hostess, "I baked it
myself!"
Alice sat back and smiled, "GOD IS GOOD".

[Tink]

ROFLMBO
How cute!

[Janet]

I rec'd that too a while back Diana. I love it then and read it again. Still love it.

[Marilyn]

I'd seen it before, too, but it was DEFINITELY worth enjoying again!!!!!!

I love this story.

[judy]

That's karma!

[AngieDoogles]

What a funny story! Like Judy said...Karma! LOL

[Chandra Amaya]

Never seen this one, but I *love* it!