丈夫想舉辦一個聚會為妻子慶祝生日，所以他去預定了一個生日蛋糕。

工作人員問他蛋糕上需要寫些什麼文字，他想了一會說：“put‘you are getting older but you are getting better.’”

工作人員又問他這些文字需要怎麼排列，他又想了一會，然後說：“Well, put ‘You are getting older’at the top and ‘but you are getting better’ at the bottom.”

生日聚會那天，蛋糕送來了，當所有的賓客看到蛋糕上的文字後都顯的很吃驚，那上面寫着：You are getting older at the top, but you are getting better at the bottom.