for reference when I was a barback someone thought it would be cute/funny to have 70 candles on a birthday cake and not only was it difficult to light them all before the first ones had burned down, it was a sheet of fucking fire that left a layer of hot wax and put off *significant* heat

ok so I just checked Dick Shurman's wikipedia he might have been turning 60? what i remember most vividly was the heat coming off the cake

60 or 70 candles on a cake is straight up terrifying

i knew it was a bad idea when she asked for it, but i *knew* it was a bad idea when I felt the heat