These People Followed Instructions A Bit Too Literally

Not Quite, But It Works

They asked the cake designer to put "a big 50" on the cake. Instead, the cake designer wrote "Big 50." It's fine, since a lot of people like to say, "the big five-oh" when referring to their friends turning fifty, but it's definitely not what they had asked for!

The More You Know

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.