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The day before New Years Eve (December 30), I went to the grocery
store to drop off my younger daughter. She works there part-time.
On my way out of the store, I saw a chocolate layer cake and bought
it for my family's dessert on New Year's Eve.
When I got to the car, it occurred to me that this cake which looked
so precious might indeed be the One Cake baked by Sauron in the Second
Age. Now, I don't know what you know about Sauron, but he's the Dark Lord
of Mordor. If it was the One Cake, I'd be in a world of trouble!
How should I handle this? What should I do? Form a "Fellowship of
the Cake," and watch all my friends turn to evil as they tried to
resist it? No, not that! Since there was no way to take the cake to the
Kitchens of Mount Doom -- and it couldn't be un-baked anyhow -- I decided
that the only thing to do was to eat some of it. That would probably destroy
its power.
After eating one piece of cake, I was only hungry for more. Even though
I knew it was evil, I decided to eat another piece.
After that, its all a blur. It must indeed have been the One Cake,
because it took control and I ate the whole thing! I turned to the Dark (chocolate)
Side, and awoke back in my driveway with my face smeared with chocolate and
bearing an empty cake box.
So, if you meet a chocolate cake at the grocery store, its NOT the
One Cake. The One Cake has already been destroyed -- although I sometimes
still dream about it!
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