u/longtoastysocks

A silly little memory that came to me recently.

I was about 8/9 years old at my friend's house for her birthday. We went to different schools so I didn't know any of the other kids there.

I remember them making fun of me at points, feeling left out of games and generally just not having a good time.

While I was too shy to "tell on them" I ended up going to hangout with my friends mum in the kitchen for a while and she must have realized what was going on.

After singing and blowing candles out, the mum took the cake to slice up for us. She specifically called me into the kitchen to bring the tray through.

I didn't think much of this, other than "wow these girls are being mean to me and I'm going to serve them cake" but when she handed me the tray I realized almost all of the slices where the same size except ONE which was significantly larger than the others.

So, being a child I delivered the tray of cake to the table, make sure to place of biggest one on my spot and handed out the rest.

To this day I have no idea if that was my friends mums intention. If she didn't realize how uneven that slice was, if she intended for it to go to her daughter.

Either way, I have no specific memory of how the kids where mean to me. Just how I felt, but I DO specifically have a great memory of having the most cake and feeling seen by the only adult there.

A silly little memory that came to me recently.

I was about 8/9 years old at my friend's house for her birthday. We went to different schools so I didn't know any of the other kids there.

I remember them making fun of me at points, feeling left out of games and generally just not having a good time.

While I was too shy to "tell on them" I ended up going to hangout with my friends mum in the kitchen for a while and she must have realized what was going on.

After singing and blowing candles out, the mum took the cake to slice up for us. She specifically called me into the kitchen to bring the tray through.

I didn't think much of this, other than "wow these girls are being mean to me and I'm going to serve them cake" but when she handed me the tray I realized almost all of the slices where the same size except ONE which was significantly larger than the others.

So, being a child I delivered the tray of cake to the table, make sure to place of biggest one on my spot and handed out the rest.

To this day I have no idea if that was my friends mums intention. If she didn't realize how uneven that slice was, if she intended for it to go to her daughter.

Either way, I have no specific memory of how the kids where mean to me. Just how I felt, but I DO specifically have a great memory of having the most cake and feeling seen by the only adult there.