BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

Soooo, I was recently promoted from the production manager of the Strip District Mancini's to the manager of the Market Square store, which shares a space with Prantl's bakery. And today, I was commenting on how good their coffee cake looked, when their manager said she had three full-size cakes that were old and she couldn't sell, and that I could take them home. I didn't bring a milk crate (which they could easily fit into), so I tied them together with that gold ribbon they use to keep the boxes closed:

Then broke the handles on two t-shirt bags. I placed the boxes on the rack, and put the bags upside-down over them, and tied it to the rack. Then, I went to CVS to see if they had any twine, and they looked at me like I was insane. So I bought some mounting tape and taped all around the whole thing. It was actually, a really effective, yet wobbly setup.

It got me from mkt square to Parkvale bank on grant, then to the strip district store, and then downtown on smithfield to catch a bus. I had to cut up the bag and the tape to get it off, and the cakes were relatively undamaged.

I can't say the same for the bags used:

(It's kind of sad that this was the highlight of my day. She told me I could take them at about 7am, and I was dreaming up how I was going to transport them while running errands the whole time I was on the clock.)