I was thinking about this the other day. It’s hard to do nice things like bake something for somebody I know well, or have already done random nice things for. It’s harder, in my mind at least, because I think about how if I’ve already done one random unprecedented nice thing like bake them something, if I do it again, I might give somebody the wrong impression of making a habit of it, which isn’t the case.
Having now thought a little about it, this may explain why I’ve historically demonstrated a preference for randomly doing one nice act of baking then failing ever to repeat. It’s easy to say that there are more than enough people I’d like to bake for that I’ll be able to keep on like this for a long time before even having need to repeat, but at the same time, I’m not actually sure there aren’t cases where I went back and baked for somebody more than once.
I don’t know, for some reason, that I’m still having difficulty figuring out for myself, it seems easier to do that kind of thing before knowing somebody better. After that, I have to think of some excuse like a birthday because otherwise I feel like it might be strange to do something in this vein. It kind of seems to me like it’s not normal for somebody to do something like bake a cake without a special occasion. Is this not the case?
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1 akgyorfi // Mar 14, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Don’t worry, we won’t hold you to the cranberry bread. And I guess people don’t go trick-or-treating any old day of the week, so yeah, the cake business is tricky to do right.
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