Hey Baby! Overheard at Starbucks

 Tonight, it is all about what you overhear while waiting for a venti salted caramel hot chocolate, add chocolate sprinkles. (Thanks to the folks on the Sbuxdrama Facebook page for the tip - try it - CRAY-MAY-ZHING!)

So. I'm sitting there, minding my own business, when I hear "I have a strong throat." Followed by a herd of giggles.

I'm determined not to literally turn around and look, because staring is rude and - as I'm frequently reminded - "Sooner or later, you're going to stare at the wrong person."

I hear it again. "I have a really strong throat. My mother says I got it from her."

Now, at this, I turn and stare.

Four girls, wearing those handkerchief blouses - you know, those things that look like two ugly bandanas stitched together with holes for the head and arms - are shucked up together at a table with cookies.

She-Bear Strong Throat is ... ummm ... "eating" cookies like how people eat raw oysters. Down the hatch! Or at least, that's what it looks like. She's got her chin up, throat almost vertical, pulsing - she looks like a bullfrog puffing her glands out.

I hope she doesn't choke.

And for the record boys, the throat does look remarkably ... strong.

The conversation ebbs and flows, then one of the four blondes at the table drops this bomb: "Is it true that you're not supposed to give babies a bath until they're baptized?"

Which, considering that babies are (usually) not sprinkled for at least a few weeks ... might be messy.

This leads to a 15-minute debate over what constitutes a "bath" - and whether it would be OK to just take a shower with a baby in order to get around this "rule." There's also a lively side discussion about what happens when the expectant mother is pregnant with the child and takes a bath - does this count as a violation.

I weep - WEEP - for the future of humanity.