So story time.
I used to work for a company doing design work for the Marines and Army. Well our manager was a marine officer that got out after 14 years. She was actually pretty cool all in all but every November, she insisted on the entire company celebrating the Marine Corp birthday. Cake, food, booze the whole 9 yards. Anyway, in 2019, myself and my immediate manager, retired army Colonel went together to the local bakery and had a cake made to look like a box of crayons. Had it gift wrapped along with the largest box of crayons we could find. On the card, we wrote, don’t eat all at once, you’ll get a tummy ache. We went to the table with the official cake and such on it and set this stack of boxes down with a note addressing them to her.
Needless to say, it was quite hilarious and she took it in stride.