A hapless Scot husband who accidentally ordered his wife a birthday cake from 230 miles away had the celebration saved after a good samaritan agreed to deliver it by hand.
Fife local Ian Cameron wanted to treat his wife Lorraine to a special cake to mark her 60th birthday, He found the business called Wendy’s Cakes, Bakes and Makes after an online search.
According to the Daily Record, the hapless husband ordered an eight-inch chocolate cake with a rectangular shaped base and a replica of a vinyl record on top. He planned to pick it up before her celebration and rang to organise the collection of the £85 confectionary. However, it was only then he discovered that the bakery was 230 miles away in Leeds.
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Cake shop owner Wendy Neary, who is 61, put out an appeal on Facebook to ask if anyone could deliver the cake to Ian. Thankfully, Chris Quinn, a 40-year-old medical sales rep, contacted Wendy and arranged to deliver the cake to Ian and Lorraine the next day.
Chris’s wife alerted him to the post since he was travelling from Leeds to Inverness for work. He then made the drop-off in Fife en-route to his destination. Thankfully in time for Lorraine’s birthday.
Chris said: "They were absolutely chuffed and couldn't believe that it had come all this way. They were really pleased, and I was really pleased to meet them as they are a lovely couple.
"They were extremely grateful, just really nice and really pleasant."
Chris said the support from social media has been "crazy," adding: "It's so nice to see how much positivity has come out of it."
He said: "It's been lovely, everyone is saying it's just so nice that there still is nice people in the world but it's just how I've been brought up, to be polite and do things for people without any reward.
"As somebody said, 'we need more Chris' in the world, which is a lovely thing to hear."
Neither Ian nor Lorraine wished to comment on the cake debacle.
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