The Coconut Cake Caper.

I’m a huge coconut fan. I love it!

Our retired CFO, Jan Shrewsbury knows how much I love coconut and was sweet enough to bring in a special, super-dreamy coconut cake to celebrate my birthday. The cake comes from a Thai restaurant in Westport called Sweet Siam.

It is the most incredible white cake I’ve ever tasted with fluffy whip cream, clouds of icing, and mounds of moist coconut all over.

There was so much hype about this cake; everyone was super excited to taste it. Believe me, it lived up to its reputation. I was thrilled because there was a bunch of cake left over after we all had eaten our fill. The leftover cake was safely stored in a big metal bowl in our company refrigerator. I was anticipating enjoying another piece of cake the next morning for breakfast… chilled coconut delight!

Unfortunately, to my horror, when I went to the fridge to get my breakfast treat… IT WAS GONE! 

Not only was the cake gone, the entire bowl was gone! I looked everywhere thinking that if someone had eaten it, surely I’d find the bowl in the dishwasher. I asked around the office. No one had seen the missing cake. (Nobody fessed up to seeing it anyway.)

I mentioned this experience to our IT Director, Neal Bellamy. He immediately asked if I had checked the video footage from the cameras in our office. Excellent idea! After all, we ARE a security company and have demo surveillance cameras everywhere in and around our building.

Lo and behold, I found the culprit after a couple of clicks in our video management system. I watched the ENTIRE bowl with its precious contents leaving the building. I won’t name names to protect the guilty. :)

Oh well. The perp saved me a couple of pounds. I guess I should be thankful?

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