If they truly threw away the cake as a previous poster states, then I'd just forget about it. However, if not, I think the OP should go in and pay for the cake and enjoy the cake with the girlfriend and her family...explain to the girlfriend and her family what went wrong and why there is a second cake, and you should be golden, Pony Boy.
However, none of the involved parties are in the right in this circumstance. The OP should not have expected to get a custom made cake on such short order...especially a tasty asian cake. He should have ordered it at least a week in advance...that's the minimum time frame that I'd expect for even a Dairy Queen, Safeway, Baskin Robbins cake. The cake baker should have required a deposit or full payment on such an expedited order...and should have provided a specific time for pick-up.
The OP, in my opinion, should go and talk to the baker and come to a resolution: that being, a tasty cake at the agreed upon price. He should discuss with the baker how the excessive phone calls are unacceptable in our culture, and how they made him not want to buy the cake, and that in the future, this is a bad business plan.
If the baker doesn't like the resolution, then tell him to go screw himself.
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