This Should Be A Piece Of Cake, But…

I used to work in the bakery department of a retail chain. A customer is explaining a custom cake order.

Customer: “Please write ‘Happy Birthday Kathy’.”

Me: “Okay, and how do you spell Kathy?”

Customer: “It’s Kathy! You don’t know how to spell Kathy? They shouldn’t have high school dropouts who can’t spell working on the custom cakes!”

Me: *Sigh.* “Does it start with a ‘C’ or a ‘K’? Does it end with a ‘y’? Two ‘e”s? An ‘i’?

Customer: “Oh… K-a-t-h-y…”

She was suddenly not a Chatty Cathy/Kathy/Cathie/Kathie/Cathi/Kathi…