Auto-correct is a great tool, but as most of you know from your own experiences, the feature is apt to turn a simple sentence into pornography. Nothing that drastic happened to Marie Seggie of Coatbridge, Scotland. For her daughter's 21st birthday, Seggie wanted to do something special for her. She contacted a baker she knew and ordered a birthday cake. But after realizing that she forgot to tell him exactly what she wanted on the cake, she sent him a text.
The text was supposed to tell the baker to put a blonde girl on top of the cake. You see, Seggie's daughter Laura is blonde. But Marie put too much faith in auto-correct and never checked the text she sent to the baker. As a result, when the cake arrived, sitting on top was a blind girl.
A picture of the cake was snapped by 17-year old Emily Seggie who said, "Thankfully we all saw the funny side of it." Emily tweeted the picture to her friends and the story went viral.
"When we got the cake on Friday, mum called us in and asked us if we could see anything wrong with it. We were a bit confused why there was a blind girl on top but then mum told us the mistake she had made with auto-correct. Thankfully we all saw the funny side of it, including my mum’s friend. We were going to take it off the top because we weren't sure if it would be seen as offensive but decided to keep it in the end. We all just laughed about it. I uploaded it on Twitter and it just went crazy. I woke up and couldn’t believe how many times it had been shared."-Emily Seggie
Let this be a warning to everyone, regardless of their typing skills. Before you hit that "Send" button, proof-read what you have typed on your smartphone. A change to one letter in Marie Seggie's text to the baker resulted in a huge mix-up. Next time, it might be a screw-up for something more important than a birthday cake.
A Blind girl sits on top of this cake thanks to the typical blunder made by auto-correct
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