Appreciation

Today at work we had a potluck appreciation lunch for our custodian, K.  K is awesome.  He is helpful and creative and cheerful and sincere and interesting and he gets things done.  We ask him to do something and he smiles and says okay and he gets it done.  Extraordinary!  He goes out of his way to help us out.  He is very unlike all previous custodians.  He even made me a steel plate to put under my kickstand which helps me and also prevents holes being punched into the asphalt parking lot.  An appreciation potluck was a great idea.  People made posters for him and he loved it.  One of the people I work with is married to a woman who took classes on baking cakes.  She's good at making cakes and he must be good at asking her to make cakes.  For K's potluck appreciation lunch she made two cakes.  One was a dome shaped pinkish brown  cake with a wooden dowel in the middle.  The other cake was also round but white with fondant that came in layers.  Yes, that is right, she made a plunger cake and a roll of toilet paper cake.  Quite often we ask K to help us out with a plunger. She didn't use that nasty fondant you buy off the shelf that tastes terrible.  She made her own fondant out of marshmallow and powdered sugar.  The cakes were awesome.  Awesome in appearance but not popular to eat.  The dowel was removed out of the plunger cake and once slice was taken out in order to get people started on eating it. K ate that piece.  Good old K.  What a man.  No one else ate plunger cake.  Was it the color of the frosting?  Was it the shape of such an important and functional tool that turned people off?  Are all my coworkers suddenly concerned about carbs?  No, it wasn't about the carbs.  I'm pretty sure it was the shape.  What is used to clear clogged pipes can not be easily passed over the lips.  They ate the roll of toilet paper cake though.  Best cake and worst cake together on the same table.  The important thing is K appreciated the gesture and got the message that we appreciate him.