A hapless Scots husband who accidentally ordered his wife's birthday cake from a shop 230 miles away was saved after a Good Samaritan agreed to deliver it by hand.
Ian Cameron from Fife wanted to treat wife Lorraine to a cake for her milestone 60th. He came across a business called Wendy's Cakes, Bakes and Makes after an online search.
Ian ordered an eight-inch chocolate cake with a rectangle-shaped base with an eight-inch replica of a vinyl record on top. He planned to pick it up before her celebration and rang to organise collecting the £85 cake - only to then discover the bakery was 230 miles away in Leeds.
Cake shop owner Wendy Neary, 61, put out an appeal on Facebook asking anyone if they could deliver the cake to Ian. Chris Quinn, 40, a medical sales rep, contacted Wendy and arranged to deliver the cake to Ian and Lorraine the following day.
Chris's wife alerted him to the post as he was travelling from Leeds to Inverness for work. He then made the drop-off in Fife en route to his final destination - 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 its 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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