Instagrim. Not having your cake and eating it.
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On a city break in a Central European city and we go to the obligatory special cake cafe that claims to have created the original special cake. This isn’t Amsterdam, so no, not that sort of cake
We were seated at the same time as a couple in their early twenties. We’re about double that. She was quite slim and attractive, he looked like a young Stephen Manghan.
Our cakes and coffee arrived at the same time. We ate ours and watched as she got him to take about thirty photos with fork, without fork, take her jumper off, (revealing a T-shirt, calm down) put her coat over her shoulders the move to the corner table with the comfy bench and do the same again. Then she takes her hair down for another few.
They then sit back down and she stares at her phone.
WHILE [u]HE EATS THE CAKE[/u]..
Today was the day we realised we are old and are going to have to let them youngsters get on with it.
The cake was lovely by the way you pathetic woman. Ask your boyfriend.
We were seated at the same time as a couple in their early twenties. We’re about double that. She was quite slim and attractive, he looked like a young Stephen Manghan.
Our cakes and coffee arrived at the same time. We ate ours and watched as she got him to take about thirty photos with fork, without fork, take her jumper off, (revealing a T-shirt, calm down) put her coat over her shoulders the move to the corner table with the comfy bench and do the same again. Then she takes her hair down for another few.
They then sit back down and she stares at her phone.
WHILE [u]HE EATS THE CAKE[/u]..
Today was the day we realised we are old and are going to have to let them youngsters get on with it.
The cake was lovely by the way you pathetic woman. Ask your boyfriend.
glenrobbo said:
Camelot1971 said:
Wow. That's almost as embarrassing as posting a story on a social media platform about someone posting on another social media platform about cake....
This. Very much this.
Ok you’re right.
But you’re also joining in too
I just had to get it off my chest.
Gratuitous cake picture
roadsmash said:
She may have been paid an influencer fee to take pictures of it and upload it to her Instagram, and tag the establishment. If you can confirm the location we could probably find the post quite easily.
Regarding the cake, you’re sat there paying for it.
She’s getting paid to take pictures of it.
She doesn’t care.
You do.
Who’s the real winner?
Me. I actually ate the cake. Regarding the cake, you’re sat there paying for it.
She’s getting paid to take pictures of it.
She doesn’t care.
You do.
Who’s the real winner?
And when you say ‘real winner’ you did remember you guessed about the situation.
I’m on Instagram but have only posted a couple of dozen times.
Im not a social influencer so unfortunately I didn’t get a free cake that I then went on to not eat.
Mothersruin said:
I thought it was a hotel that claimed the invention - we were going to eat there for dinner one evening but we walked in, did an immediate u-turn and walked back out again - proper old school stuffiness, not our sort of thing.
That’s the one. To be honest we found a bit stuffy was a bit of a theme for lots of places there.
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