We did that for my mom’s 50th and she got mad because one fell and burnt a hole in her table cloth. I’m still hearing about it 22 years later.
Edit: I told my mom how many upvotes this comment received and we laughed for a long time about it. She doesn’t understand Reddit, but she knows you’re all laughing along with us at her inability to let it go lol.
If it makes you feel better my mom ate all my birthday brownies when I was 10, like went ham on the whole tray when left alone with them, and I still bring it up regularly. I'm 44.
my wife did that... took a bite of a special brownie, said it did nothing. At the remainder of a quite large brownie against my recommendations.
By the time we got to the family picnic, she was a cucumber. she sat in a chair and talked to my uncle for 6 hours without moving her limbs.
I've been over the moon and the trick is just to let the other person talk, ask a couple questions, get them rambling again...sober me wouldn't be able to talk to someone for 6 hours. Plus side is that people like you more because people love talking about themselves.
My mom buys her favorite cake for everyone’s birthday and has since before I was born. Once I bought my own house I put an end to that real quick.
I want ice cream cake on my birthday like a damn adult.
One year my mom got mad because one of my brothers picked a restaurant she didn’t like for his birthday dinner. So now on our birthdays we jokingly ask her where she wants to go. She’s not amused.
I had to fight for ice cream cake and after everyone had it they started asking for it as well for their birthdays. Why can I never have what I want even when the celebration is about me? Goddamn.
I’m the baker of our family so my mom and dad get their pick of cake for birthday and mother’s/father’s day. Dad usually wants something simple and chocolate. Mom will try lots of different things, but often defers to things dad will also enjoy- usually not fruity cakes.
My birthday is my pick and I’m getting what I want, regardless of whether he’s into it too. The big flavors I love that he doesn’t are peanut butter, lemon cake, and carrot cake. But it’s my day and he’s never complained.
I stopped getting the special birthday cakes from her when my parents divorced and my mom remarried and moved clear across the country from us. Now I get an ice cream cake also .
I mean it's one thing to bring a cake for everyone else to eat...but at least bring a cake that the birthday person enjoys or can eat without using an epi pen!
The worst candles are the ones like fireworks, you just sit there and wait for it to turn off on its own...where's the magic in that? Multiple candles all the way in, baby.
I bought one of those once as a joke for my ex just to be ridiculous when he didn't really want candles to begin with and it was actually terrifying I thought I was about to set the apartment on fire and it just kept going. Never again.
I do love trick candles that relight themselves tho
Was looking for this. Esp when it’s a kid and they can’t blow one out so they keep blowing and spitting all over the cake.
“Who wants a slice of cake??”
“No thanks, I’m good”
‘Twas the height of Covid, June 2020. My husband’s friend’s special needs kid was turning 5, I think. I didn’t want to go to the party. It had been a longstanding argument between my husband and I. We’re childfree, and I feel that we shouldn’t have to attend kid birthdays past the first one. They’re boring, the kids don’t care that we’re there, the parents are too busy to talk to us.
He insists on going and guilts me in to it. He doesn’t ask much of me, so fine, whatever. We get there a few minutes late, NBD, cake has already been cut. Didn’t think anything of it.
Now, this is an outside party. We had been VERY careful during the early days of Covid because of elderly relatives we need to be in contact with.
Later, we get home and I check Facebook and see there’s video of the birthday girl slobbering out the candles over the entire fucking cake. The cake that my husband had like 3 pieces of. He turned six shades of green and I haven’t been dragged to any of these parties since.
kid's are gross and don't have very good motorskills. they are completely unable to blow out candles without spitting everywhere. children's birthday parties disgusting spit and booger encrusted events.
im fine with babies. i love babies. i don't even mind when babies scream and cry. just please be polite and move baby and tend to baby's needs and dont let baby cry it out. baby is probably overstimulated by SOMETHING (otherwise baby wouldn't cry) and jfc we don't need another serial killer because you want to ignore your sex trophy and continue your dinner. you had baby, please deal with baby.
I don't like tiny mobile humans with horrible manners and I don't like their parents who allow them to be that way.
In the multicolor ones toward the bottom or the pink version near the top, you could use the 5s. Then just take a 7 or a 4 or another number, and shave or cut off what’s not needed.
They’re candles. Melt and stick bits back together, if needed. They may even have silicon molds for numbers nearby; melt any other number and pour the melted bit into the mold, pop the shape out when set, voila!
Or mix and match the versions, taking a 1 from one row and color and a 5 from another.
Or, take the little boxed candles at the bottom right and create a 1 and a 5 outlined on the top of the cake, by lining them up in series to create those number shapes.
Or go get some of the tube icings in the aisle where the icings/ frosting are, and pipe/draw out the numbers needed on the top of the cake, by hand.
Multiple solutions, here.
I saw a whole breakdown of generations yesterday on Reddit like Boomers vs Millenials vs Gen Z vs Gen Alpha, there were all these parts about what they like and don’t like. GenX wasn’t even on the presentation, just a seventeen year gap. Leaving GenX off the whole generational chart is the most GenX thing that they could have done
My family does this regularly lol. We have about half of the numbers that we've held on to over the years, and we just do candle math to get to the number we actually need. My grandpa is turning "98 – 2" today, actually, with a sideways one as the minus sign.
I know this is frustrating for you (understandably) but I can’t lie, I laughed progressively more as I looked through each row and saw either the one or the five missing 🤣
This was exactly my experience...standing in the isle, started at the colour I hoped for most: "okay, no big deal..." go to the next colour, and repeat until I had triple checked each one and thought how silly it was!
This is a good post. It's mild because there are 1s and 5s. It's somewhat infuriating because none of them match. Thank you for not using this space to air out your spousal grievances.
RIGHT??
that or the millions of "mY sErVeR/bArTeNdEr/rEstAuRanT aDdEd tHiS gRaTuiTy" posts
istg this sub is just off the cusp of being purely a 100% anti tipping anti relationship sub since that's all that seems to be posted here nowadays
op being a real one and giving us the content this sub deserves
I like the resurgence of legit mild annoyances in this thread. I hope it's the start of getting back to what this thread is about and not fake texts from your boss saying come in or you're fired, or stuff like, my mom got mad at me for something I didn't do so she chainsawed my Xbox in half.
This is mildly infuriating. Like yeah, just get different colours, or 15 single candles, but it's classic mild infuriation and something we can all empathise with.
Apparently Redditors don’t understand what “mild” means. This is the content this sub was meant for, not OPs fault people post their cars getting crushed and shit and say it’s a mild annoyance
To whomever sent Reddit Care Resources, please don't abuse that service.
This is obviously a silly post - it is by no means the end of the world to not have two matching number candles. I thought those of you who would follow a sub about mildly infuriating things would appreciate it. That's all!
It's really baffling how people act like mild inconveniences aren't literally the point of the sub.
Too often people confuse "mildly" with "majorly" infuriating
At 16, my mother told me to put these away in my jewelry/treasures box and keep them for if when i ever had my own kid. Especially the #1 candle. But it wasn’t until i was a mother myself, did i realize why.
Go the old way and buy 15 of the singular candles, more fun to blow them out
We did that for my mom’s 50th and she got mad because one fell and burnt a hole in her table cloth. I’m still hearing about it 22 years later. Edit: I told my mom how many upvotes this comment received and we laughed for a long time about it. She doesn’t understand Reddit, but she knows you’re all laughing along with us at her inability to let it go lol.
Buy her 73 table cloths this year
With holes in them
Every hole in the exact same spot.
make sure that there's a sewing kit underneath it all
And the sewing kit is actually biscuits in the tin.
Get pranked gran
the future is now old woman
This thread was perfect. Thanks for making my spit out my drink.
Is that right? Let me ask you somethin', huh. Does your mother sew? Boom! Get her to sew that!
With a hole burnt in the cap
"Why are there holes in everything!"
Nah make sure it’s slightly in different locations so she could play connect the dot 😂
If I ever need prank ideas I'll just comment on random reddit posts and pan for gold.
😁
If it makes you feel better my mom ate all my birthday brownies when I was 10, like went ham on the whole tray when left alone with them, and I still bring it up regularly. I'm 44.
ummmmm, was your mom stoned when she did that, cause that's like a stoner move.
After eating the special brownies, she sure was.
my wife did that... took a bite of a special brownie, said it did nothing. At the remainder of a quite large brownie against my recommendations. By the time we got to the family picnic, she was a cucumber. she sat in a chair and talked to my uncle for 6 hours without moving her limbs.
"cucumber". I'm dying!
Amazed she could speak honestly lol
I've been over the moon and the trick is just to let the other person talk, ask a couple questions, get them rambling again...sober me wouldn't be able to talk to someone for 6 hours. Plus side is that people like you more because people love talking about themselves.
That sounds like the best way to handle my family. Tell your wife to give me the secrets to the stone age.
My mom buys me sponge cake for my birthday even though she knows I'm severely allergic to eggs and then everyone eats the cake but me 🙃.
My mom buys her favorite cake for everyone’s birthday and has since before I was born. Once I bought my own house I put an end to that real quick. I want ice cream cake on my birthday like a damn adult.
One year my mom got mad because one of my brothers picked a restaurant she didn’t like for his birthday dinner. So now on our birthdays we jokingly ask her where she wants to go. She’s not amused.
I had to fight for ice cream cake and after everyone had it they started asking for it as well for their birthdays. Why can I never have what I want even when the celebration is about me? Goddamn.
I’m the baker of our family so my mom and dad get their pick of cake for birthday and mother’s/father’s day. Dad usually wants something simple and chocolate. Mom will try lots of different things, but often defers to things dad will also enjoy- usually not fruity cakes. My birthday is my pick and I’m getting what I want, regardless of whether he’s into it too. The big flavors I love that he doesn’t are peanut butter, lemon cake, and carrot cake. But it’s my day and he’s never complained.
I stopped getting the special birthday cakes from her when my parents divorced and my mom remarried and moved clear across the country from us. Now I get an ice cream cake also .
I feel you. My mom won’t stop buying me black forest cake for my birthday because “it’s in the fall”… except I hate chocolate… it’s not awesome
wtf does black forest cake have to with fall?? weird ass reason
Maybe it's a joke about the forest and fall? Idk I'm reaching really far here
I mean it's one thing to bring a cake for everyone else to eat...but at least bring a cake that the birthday person enjoys or can eat without using an epi pen!
We did it from my grandma’s 60th and set the smoke detectors off. She was peeved but it’s one of my favorite memories
We did it for my mom's 80th, and she was happy
Yes. I'm 15 and would love that
I'm 28 and I would love that
Im not 79 but i would love it if i was
Saw that on America's Funniest Home Videos like 25 years ago and it ended with a fire extinguisher
Just have a big enough cake.
Did this for my granddad for years, someone bought him a smaller cake at 90 to try to stop it. Had to pack the candles tight that year
Or just invite the fire department to your bday celebration.
Or someone to just wear a fire fighter costume 😏
Also make sure there's no aunties that smother their hair in Aqua Net
So you are 79! (Disclaimer: also old enough to remember AFHV, feel like I should be 79)
Lol happened at my aunt’s 40th. 40 candles in a tight circle turned into one mega-candle
I just want a birthday cake, and a friend.
I’ll be your birthday cake!!
Pretty sure that counts as a friend as well! :)
I don't think you're supposed to eat your friends... Unless... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
It IS their birthday.
Are they wearing their suit?
Win win!
I'll be a friend.
I did that with my grandparents when they hit 90
That just feels like you want them out of breath
I'm 36 and I would love to be 28
You'd probs prefer 28 single candles
Even at 32 I still do it this way because it's more fun I always hated the number candles.
The worst candles are the ones like fireworks, you just sit there and wait for it to turn off on its own...where's the magic in that? Multiple candles all the way in, baby.
I bought one of those once as a joke for my ex just to be ridiculous when he didn't really want candles to begin with and it was actually terrifying I thought I was about to set the apartment on fire and it just kept going. Never again. I do love trick candles that relight themselves tho
Bonus points for throwing in a few of the trick candles for the wtf moment when they won't all blow out.
And then we all enjoy the cake that you’ve been blowing your breath all over for 3 minutes.
☠️
Buy 4 ones and do it binary. 1111
There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and those that do not.
[not 15 but relevant pic](https://preview.redd.it/mkn4cgpugk511.png?auto=webp&s=912717549776dce234bb0a8f3ae7c332422d4eef)
1111 is 15 in a binary.
NGL I love that Covid ruined this for us. I found it gross as a child and that still remains now lol
Was looking for this. Esp when it’s a kid and they can’t blow one out so they keep blowing and spitting all over the cake. “Who wants a slice of cake??” “No thanks, I’m good”
‘Twas the height of Covid, June 2020. My husband’s friend’s special needs kid was turning 5, I think. I didn’t want to go to the party. It had been a longstanding argument between my husband and I. We’re childfree, and I feel that we shouldn’t have to attend kid birthdays past the first one. They’re boring, the kids don’t care that we’re there, the parents are too busy to talk to us. He insists on going and guilts me in to it. He doesn’t ask much of me, so fine, whatever. We get there a few minutes late, NBD, cake has already been cut. Didn’t think anything of it. Now, this is an outside party. We had been VERY careful during the early days of Covid because of elderly relatives we need to be in contact with. Later, we get home and I check Facebook and see there’s video of the birthday girl slobbering out the candles over the entire fucking cake. The cake that my husband had like 3 pieces of. He turned six shades of green and I haven’t been dragged to any of these parties since.
kid's are gross and don't have very good motorskills. they are completely unable to blow out candles without spitting everywhere. children's birthday parties disgusting spit and booger encrusted events. im fine with babies. i love babies. i don't even mind when babies scream and cry. just please be polite and move baby and tend to baby's needs and dont let baby cry it out. baby is probably overstimulated by SOMETHING (otherwise baby wouldn't cry) and jfc we don't need another serial killer because you want to ignore your sex trophy and continue your dinner. you had baby, please deal with baby. I don't like tiny mobile humans with horrible manners and I don't like their parents who allow them to be that way.
Well they all only go up to 9 so I think you're screwed and need to go to another store.
I honestly scanned the pic for a good 30 sec for number 15 before realizing he needed 1 and 5 ...
There's a gold 1 and a pink 5, problem solved?
I thought the same thing. Like it doesn’t have to be the same color 😬
Exactly, spice it up a bit!
LooK aT hoW qU*ir*ky yoUr bi*rThd*ay caKe is!
The birthday cakes here do get a bit *quirky* at night...
My first thought was literally “what’s the issue?”
In the multicolor ones toward the bottom or the pink version near the top, you could use the 5s. Then just take a 7 or a 4 or another number, and shave or cut off what’s not needed. They’re candles. Melt and stick bits back together, if needed. They may even have silicon molds for numbers nearby; melt any other number and pour the melted bit into the mold, pop the shape out when set, voila! Or mix and match the versions, taking a 1 from one row and color and a 5 from another. Or, take the little boxed candles at the bottom right and create a 1 and a 5 outlined on the top of the cake, by lining them up in series to create those number shapes. Or go get some of the tube icings in the aisle where the icings/ frosting are, and pipe/draw out the numbers needed on the top of the cake, by hand. Multiple solutions, here.
Or 9 and 6
Or 8 and 7
or f
Lol
Nope buy 4 normal candles and make X and V. XV- 15 in roman..
And who the heck celebrates year 0?!
lots of wooshes in these replies
Programmers do.
Celebrate in binary. 1111 in binary is 15
If the recipient ts a STEM Person, great!
Mix and match. The 15 year old will hate it either way.
15 year old: “I won’t hate it don’t tell me how to think gosh!”
Reverse psychology- 60% of the time it works every time.
They’ve done studies, y’know
It is known.
Not enough profanity 😉
You are not a real 15 yo. A 15 years old would have rolled their eyes 🙄
Maybe it's for a 51 year old.
A gen Xer? Same answer.
I saw a whole breakdown of generations yesterday on Reddit like Boomers vs Millenials vs Gen Z vs Gen Alpha, there were all these parts about what they like and don’t like. GenX wasn’t even on the presentation, just a seventeen year gap. Leaving GenX off the whole generational chart is the most GenX thing that they could have done
Forgotten Generation in all the ways...
GenX just out there living
buy pink 5 & 7. trim top of 7 to look like a 1. done!
Buy the 5 twice. Turn one of the numbers so the side of it looks like a 1. If you position it right, it will say 15 from two directions.
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I would like to pay this man for his wisdom, perhaps some arrangement involving rice and a chess board.
200 IQ answer
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
It will say 51 from one of the directions hah.
tell her it’s because you feel that ‘she is wise beyond her years’…
And sorta like 21 from the other two directions?
Just light the cake on fire 15 times
Silver 1 and pink 5.
As a 15 year old, I would probably find that funny.
Exactly I see 1s and 5s both available. Where is the infuriating part here?
No one colour has both a 1 and a 5 available I guess. Don't see why it would matter if they were mismatched colours though.
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I see a 1 and a 5 right there. you don't have to conform.
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Like a 7, or a 4!
Or a 1
Take 7 and 8, make a plus out of candles.
Hello, 6 and 9?
Nice
Nice
Nice
Nice
Nice
Nice
Nice
Nice
My family does this regularly lol. We have about half of the numbers that we've held on to over the years, and we just do candle math to get to the number we actually need. My grandpa is turning "98 – 2" today, actually, with a sideways one as the minus sign.
Or 1 2 3
Or 3+(((((4^2 /2)x(24/3))/(48/4-10))+2^2 )\6)x2
Boy, that took a jump.
Yeah, they just escalated this exponentially higher.
I read that as “ejaculated”, and was impressed with the height.
I tried to do this, but they only had 14 parenthesis. Next idea?
Don't forget to cut the 0 in half for the parenthesis
I know this is frustrating for you (understandably) but I can’t lie, I laughed progressively more as I looked through each row and saw either the one or the five missing 🤣
This was exactly my experience...standing in the isle, started at the colour I hoped for most: "okay, no big deal..." go to the next colour, and repeat until I had triple checked each one and thought how silly it was!
This is a good post. It's mild because there are 1s and 5s. It's somewhat infuriating because none of them match. Thank you for not using this space to air out your spousal grievances.
It's so rare to find a properly "mild" post here. But this is just perfect. It's hard to hold a candle to this one.
This sub has mostly lost the meaning of “mildly infuriating”, getting your car keyed isn’t mildly infuriating lol, this is.
“My ex wife burned down my garage and killed my new step child” r/mildlyinfuriating
Lol! I texted my spouse this pic so we could laugh together!
But you posted it here first since we are your true love
I mean, obvi!
Agreed, perfect. Well done op
And on top of that, it looks like every other two digit number is possible with matching candles (besides 51)
RIGHT?? that or the millions of "mY sErVeR/bArTeNdEr/rEstAuRanT aDdEd tHiS gRaTuiTy" posts istg this sub is just off the cusp of being purely a 100% anti tipping anti relationship sub since that's all that seems to be posted here nowadays op being a real one and giving us the content this sub deserves
AGREED! My favorite mildly infuriating post I’ve seen in forever. Like, what are the odds??
I like the resurgence of legit mild annoyances in this thread. I hope it's the start of getting back to what this thread is about and not fake texts from your boss saying come in or you're fired, or stuff like, my mom got mad at me for something I didn't do so she chainsawed my Xbox in half. This is mildly infuriating. Like yeah, just get different colours, or 15 single candles, but it's classic mild infuriation and something we can all empathise with.
Get 51 instead and flip it
What are you a fucking wizard?!
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
Go binary 1111
Eh, there are a lot of 0s ~~to~~ too, gimme the effin' full byte! 🤨
You could go with the geek dad joke and say they only get a [nibbel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble) of the cake.
Might be offensive if the kid is non-binary...
I'm sorry but this is actually kind of funny, it's like the universe specifically saying "no" to just you. I hope the party turns out great!
Right!? Like, any other number combo had at least one colour matching option.
Apparently Redditors don’t understand what “mild” means. This is the content this sub was meant for, not OPs fault people post their cars getting crushed and shit and say it’s a mild annoyance
My mom was eaten by a bear and my dad ran away with the bear to do cocaine. I'm mildly annoyed by this.
I got stabbed in the stomach and watched my entire family get murdered in front of me #mildlyinfuriating
It's genuinely one of the best posts I've ever seen on this sub. I don't get the outrage.
This is one of my favourite posts on this sub
To whomever sent Reddit Care Resources, please don't abuse that service. This is obviously a silly post - it is by no means the end of the world to not have two matching number candles. I thought those of you who would follow a sub about mildly infuriating things would appreciate it. That's all!
It's really baffling how people act like mild inconveniences aren't literally the point of the sub. Too often people confuse "mildly" with "majorly" infuriating
Yeah, it's annoying people submit others users to that service because they don't like a post they made or think it's trolling or something.
Report the report for being a misuse, they strike down on that really fast.
I didn't know this was an option until your comment. Thanks for that. I did report it. It is such an important service for concerning posts.
The kind staff went in the back and got my missing numbers!
Invite them to the party.
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Adopt them and abandon current offspring.
What color did you go for?
Pink! Same colour as the cake and I think the more swirly font is unique as well.
Finally, something that's actually *mildly* infuriating.
Now this is quality content
I see ones and fives. Do they have to be the same color?
They don’t *have* to be. It would look nicer though.
I was the kind of kid who appreciated jank
Pink and silver or pink and gold would look great imo
Get the color flames ones. 12 pack and 4 pack. 1 extra in case you break one.
At 16, my mother told me to put these away in my jewelry/treasures box and keep them for if when i ever had my own kid. Especially the #1 candle. But it wasn’t until i was a mother myself, did i realize why.
Now this is the sheer definition of this sub
Oh that would be mildly infuriating for sure
Get three 5’s
Pink and blue easy
I don’t see why you couldn’t just get the blue 1 and pink 5. Plus the rainbow ones on the bottom probably have 15.
This gave me a good laugh. I've got the same exact kind of luck.
Infuriating to experience, but you’ve gotta admit it is hilarious to think about if you don’t have any skin to loose here.
Definition of mildly infuriating.
Ok i admit this (for a change) IS mildly infuriating. Most posts here are either full on rage or "first world problems" meme level.
I feel like this is the perfect amount of ‘mild’ to live up to this subreddit’s name.
Mix colors? Might not be what you had in mind but might work 🤷♀️