When I'm not working on school stuff, I've been trying to call caterers and bakeries and get price quotes. We have a tasting set up for tomorrow night. Burgess Bakery said they only do tastings on Mondays, Tuesday and Wednesday. So I asked how I could get samples for Aaron if I took an appointment during one of those days. I tried to tell them that he works out of town and is unavailable those days.
So basically they said that if I found anyone to do a tasting on the weekend, they weren't very good bakers and I should really wonder about them. That they have a life too and can't meet on Sundays. Friday and Saturday are their busiest days and they can't take anytime out to meet with anyone those days as it would be unfair to anyone whose cake they are working on. Well you know, a simple "no, I'm sorry but we can't accomodate you because those are our busiest days" really would have sufficed.
Plus they went on to chastise me for not being able to pick out a cake without my fiance. Well Aaron and I have two very different tastes in cake. He has to be able to try the chocolate because if its too chocolate-y he won't eat it. Plus some of the white/yellow cakes he doesn't like either. So yeah, he needs to try it because its really important that he like the cake too.. it is his wedding too after all.
Yeah so I'm picking up samples from them tomorrow after school and they are letting me take them home. Then if I like them, I can make an appointment. I know its an exception but this was only after asking to speak with the manager - the person who picked up the phone kept confusing me, didn't seem to know what she was talking about and couldn't seem to answer simple questions if it wasn't included in her little rhetoric already.
The original person who answered the phone, actually suggested that Aaron take a day off so that he could come in. What?!? Yes Aaron will call in sick to his job just so he can come taste some cake. What planet are these people living on?
I doubt will go with them. Its just they were recommended to us by someone who has eaten their cakes. They are letting me pick up three samples for us both. I'm just hoping they had a bad day the day that I called. I can't possibly be the first person who can't come in on those days. I find it really hard to believe that they get much business that way.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
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