LOLZ To The Maxx

So there's a Disney cartoon about 3 kids who turn into superheroes when they put on their pajamas.
It's called PJ Masks:

See? Not making this up.

As you might imagine, this show has a lot of young fans, including 3-year-old Sunsara, who asked for a PJ Masks cake for her birthday.

MEANWHILE, on the other side of our story, there's me, working my first-ever job as a cashier/shoe department associate manager at a discount department store chain.

(I loved that job.)

(Which has nothing to do with our story; I just felt like sharing.)

Now, here's where little Sunsara and I have our backstories collide in the wreckiest of fashions:

Ready?

Did you already guess?

If so, GOLD STARS.

Almost there now!

TA-DAAAAAA!

I'm torn between feeling sorry for Sunsara and laughing with delight, because dang, that's a good TJ Maxx logo. Right? It's the Obama Llama all over again! Hee!

Here's hoping Sunsara's mom took her shopping after this and they found some awesome, discounted PJs.

Thanks to Lereas for helping me re-live my days of glory in retail. And hey, everyone else, PUT AWAY THE SHOES AFTER YOU TRY THEM ON. What, were you raised in a barn filled with randomly strewn shoes? Don't you make me come over there and tidy up, because I. WILL. DO IT.

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Ha! Fooled You AGAIN!

There's been a tradition going around for April Fool's Day to either make cake look like other foods:

By CW reader Brenda S.

... or make other food look like cake:

It's a literal beef cake!

By CW reader Barbara G.

Sonya D. here even did both: The "cake" is meatloaf with mashed potato icing, and the grilled cheese "sandwiches" are cake!

Cute! Now ... SOMEONE BRING ME A CAKE SAMMICH.

Ahem.

Naturally, all the big chain bakeries have decided to get in on this action, churning out a veritable plethora of faux food guaranteed to fool ANYONE who is standing fifty feet away and just got those pupil-dilating drops put in from the ophthalmologist within the past hour.

I think it's supposed to be a hot dog and fries.
I KNOW it looks like moldy doody.

("Howdy, DOODY.")

How about single servings of spaghetti and meatballs, macaroni and cheese, and tiny cherry pies?

Or these things?

The bakers actually succeeded on this one:

Although I don't remember the Bog of Eternal Stench having quite that much silly string.

Much as it pains me to admit it, sometimes the "corn on the cob" cupcakes can be pretty darn cute.

Happily, this isn't one of those times.

This one's my favorite, though - because only a wreckerator could fail this badly to make a cupcake look like a cupcake:

*facepalm*

When all else fails, though, nothing fools customers into believing there are real raw green beans and potato chips stuck on the cupcakes like sticking real raw green beans and potato chips on the cupcakes:

Let's not ask what the lumps are in the other cupcake's icing, though, ok? I'd like to eat again someday.

Thanks to Shellis S., Mia & Trinh, Kris D., Tracy W., Sabrina P., Kae B., & Sheila M. for the faux food foolishness. 

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