Dan ap Dafydd accidentally ordered 720 chocolate Easter eggs for his store on a Scottish Island, where the entire population is only about 500.
London — It was a pretty routine order for Dan ap Dafydd. The shopkeeper on Scotland's remote Orkney Islands was just trying to get ahead of the looming Easter holiday rush by ordering chocolate eggs six months in advance. But when the order arrived, he faced a hare-raising dilemma.'I thought just 80 individual eggs were coming, but in reality I ordered 80 cases, and that was 720 eggs,' ap Dafydd, owner of the Sinclair General Stores, told CBS News.
'The Orkneys sit off the northern tip of the Scottish mainland, in the Atlantic Ocean. To get to ap Dafydd's island, you must first fly to the main island and then take a ferry.He said people have asked how he failed to notice that he'd made the mistakenly large order in the first place. Once it was made, he didn't have to pay until the eggs were delivered, he explained. By then it was too late to send them back. So, ap Dafydd leaned into his mistake.
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