Baking Cakes

One thing that will make you feel really stupid and inept.....
I love to bake. I'm not the greatest baker in the worl, but I do tend to make some pretty good stuff everyonce in a while. So for special occasions I make cakes, cookies, or candy for my family and friends. For Father's Day I decided to make my dad a cake. It followed the directions on the box exactly and did everything I was supposed to. So I got the cake all set up and all pretty. After I finished frosting it I set it in the glass cake container and waited for dad to come home. When we all came to see the cake I had made I couldn't believe it! The cake broke! It was cracked in the middle and split into three large pieces! My beautiful cake, ruined! Well my dad doesnt care. As long as it's cake and from me.. he's happy. So I'm telling my friend Derek about this right.. and he's planning on being a chef. He asks how I made it and all that thinking I did it from scratch. And I'm like.. uhh.. it was a box cake. He sort of stops for a second and looks at me. Then he starts to laugh and proclaims.. "You know.. those things are pretty much idiot proof." Yeah.......... so I made another one yesterday just for the heck of it. And still.. it broke. I don't know why... they just break! This doesn't mean I'm an idiot.. does it?