GAINES TOWNSHIP, Mich., Dec. 2 (UPI) — A Michigan woman’s Facebook post is going viral after she discovered the messy writing on her birthday cake was done by an employee with autism.
Lisa Aldrich said in her Facebook post she went to the Gaines Township Meijer during the weekend to buy a birthday cake and she asked a “bakery-looking-employee” to write “Happy Birthday Mandy” on the dessert.
“I looked her In the eye and said thank you before I even looked at the cake,” Aldrich wrote.
Aldrich said she “nervously laughed and headed to check out” after seeing the sloppy writing on the cake because it “didn’t really matter to me that it looked so bad — I thought people would think it was funny.”
However, she wrote the “cashiers at the self check out didn’t think it was so funny.”
Aldrich said employees offered to get her a new cake, but she refused.
“To my surprise, after they discussed it, one cashier put her arm on my shoulder and said ‘the girl who wrote that has Autism. Thank you for smiling and thanking her — even though she’s not supposed to write on cakes, you probably made her day.'”
Aldrich said she hopes people take a lesson from her post: “So I guess the moral of the story is that kindness is important!”
The shopper posted an update in a comment saying she later spoke with a manager at the store.
“The wonderful lady who helped me with the cake did NOT get in trouble — they told her to do whatever she needed to do to serve the customer’s needs, and she did just that,” she wrote.
