Company Picnic this weekend

And, since we are a bit of a low budget production, they put a monkey in charge of the catering and planning. I suspect they thought they'd get super brownies out of the deal or something.

I tricked them . . . I ordered the cake (with a strawberry filling . . . I hope) and got a local BBQ place to supply the eats. Now I need something called "badminton" rackets. I don't know these badminton people . . . or how I get them to play our party.

I'm not optimistic about the cake. I've only ever ordered a cake once before. I was put in charge of a pre-wedding party for one of the Phenom's fellow actors. I looked into all the possibilities . . . and finally decided to go with the mega mart bakery. I ordered a lovely cake . . . with creme filling . . . and chocolate frosting and lovely flowers all around. When I went to pick it up, they said they'd not made it because they ran out of chocolate frosting. I did an exaggerated look around the mega mart and said in a loud voice . . . in this WHOLE STORE, you had NO chocolate frosting . . . they shrugged and said no.

I asked why no one had called to see if my order could be changed . . . and they claimed they had called me. I whipped out my phone, showed them the list of incoming calls, and asked which number was theirs. They finally, rather than admit lying and fault, referred me to the manager. Only, the manager wasn't in at the moment (they never are when there is an irate monkey on the loose in a store, are they?) So, I called and left a very unsatisfyingly angry message on his voice mail about their lies, their incompetency, and how they had ruined the "shower."

He called back and acted as if I should be more understanding of their crisis . . . THE WERE OUT OF CHOCOLATE FROSTING FOR GOD'S SAKE . . . C H O C O L A T E F R O S T I N G.

That was the second time I was so angry on the phone I actually spit while screaming.

I didn't order the cake from mega mart this time, but I still will need convincing before I have confidence in any cake-pusher's ability to fill an order.