Sometimes, when you're ordering a custom item, it pays to be very specific about what you want done – other times, if it's taken too literally, it doesn't happen.
Such was the case for Chicago-based woman Peyton Chimack, who went viral on TikTok after posting a cake she ordered from her local Walmart.
In the post, which has been viewed more than 703,000 times, Chimack says an inspiring cake that she wanted for her birthday, noting that she asked the vendor to write “Aries Baby” in black on a white cake and make the writing “small, curved and in the middle of the cake” like this example:
(Tiktok via Peyton Chimack)
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However, the cake decorator took Chimack's instructions literally and wrote “(small, bare, middle of the cake)” on the cake in big black letters underneath which read “Aries Baby”.
(Tiktok via Peyton Chimack)
“When I tell you, my mouth dropped when I got into the car and opened the cake,” she wrote.
Chimack said today that she went back inside to tell the mistake to the cake decorator. She was on vacation, but the butcher working in the shop gave her a good laugh. When the cake decorator returned, Chimack said today“(S)he was kind of confused about what she did wrong. She didn't realize she put the instructions on the page, she thought that's what I wanted.”
Viewers of her post were in stitches over the wrong cake decoration.
“I need to know what goes through people's heads while they are actively on what is clearly a note,” one viewer wrote. “Are they really like 'Yeah, perfect, no worries!'
“That's better than getting what you wanted in the first place,” noted another. “You can watch it anytime and just laugh.”
Chimack eventually fixed the cake and shared the result with viewers in a follow-up video.
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“She did the best she could,” Chimack wrote in the caption.
Walmart did not immediately respond of the entrepreneur request for comment.