I’m in line at CVS.
There’s a baby in front of me, and one a little ways behind.
The latter is screaming her baby powdered head off.
The mother, a well-heeled young woman in a fur hat, looks as if she’d like to give her up for adoption.
The line is long because the do-it-yourself machines are on the fritz. We wait to what’s starting to sound like, really bad opera.
The baby in front of me, a cute little boy in a bright blue parka with the name Trevor etched on the front, is looking over his mom’s shoulder at his screaming colleague who is still singing Carmen.
His eyes get very big as though he has an idea.
He starts blowing the girl kisses, the charmer we now all know he will grow up to be.
You’ve never seen a group of such diverse individuals clutching their various necessities change their tune from grumbles to smiles so fast.
If only Carmen would change hers. 
SB
so cute!!!
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Yes. That little boy could run for office, and get elected. 🙂
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And they do!
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But he at least is likable. I’d vote for him. 🙂
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Me too! 😁
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I just saw us handing out VOTE FOR THE BABY buttons. 🙂
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hahaha!
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You’re such an easy laugh. It’s great…:)
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That little sweetheart is such a precious image. I can sympathize with the mother of the screamer. My oldest son wouldn’t have been the crier, but he definitely would have caused a stir. His curly blonde locks hid his horns. My other three were 6-9 years at the time of their adoptions, but I think they wouldn’t have been as rambunctious. .
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It was deafening. She wouldn’t let up. if it were me, I would have had to leave.
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I left many times. I later found out he had ADD. It wasn’t something that was known at the time. He has turned out to be a wonderful son, husband, and father.
Maybe the screamer will be a rock star, ha ha!
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Madonna in Pampers.
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Baby magic!!
I dislike the checkout at CVS. I struggle with it until a worker, who has been hiding behind the counter, comes out to help me. It would be so much easier if he waited on me to begin with.
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I thought I had answered this. I had said, CVS is like the old Automat, with hand cream and prunes. Something like that. 🙂
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I’m old enough to have eaten at an Automat! I think their system was much easier to use than self-check machines.
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That’s right. You opened a little window, took out your piece of pie or tuna salad sandwich. Right?
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Right. It was fun.
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Simple ways, pre NASA Technology. I long for the easier over the more efficient. Call me old school, or a stubborn mule, a classic, or an utter fool. Now you see why I never made it as a poet. 🙂
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I like your rhyme.
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Or…no…reason.
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LOL!
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I miss my favorite Punster. 🙂
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You are a stand-alone punster today. I’m sorry that my brain has gone back to bed.
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Tell it to call me, when it wakes up. 🙂
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The kids got a future in the love and romance business, no doubt about it.
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Yeah, Brad Pitt, move over. 🙂
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He’s got his Brad Pitt training wheels on . . .
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Not a bad start for a baby.
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Not at all.
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That boy will go far! If Carmen would unscrunch her eyes… maybe she would change her tune.
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I don’t know. She was a diva in a diaper.
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Diva in a Diaper… could be a song 🙂
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Bruce, could sing it, well, once he gets out of jail for his DWI that is. Oh, he’s not in jail, just all over the New York papers.
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I was gonna say, he is? Sheesh… But yeah, I can hear his raspy voice singing this 🙂
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Isn’t it great we have such insane imaginations? 🙂
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It is! Keeps us sane in this insane world…
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Well put.
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😊
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This is the best story of the week. I’m so glad you needed to go to the CVS so we all could smile with you. Bit of a chill descending on the Southland, so we need to bundle up and get smiles where we can. 😊
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Babies, they are little teachers. That would have gotten mega hits on YouTube.
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For sure. 😁
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You are right, Trevor is going places when he grows up. And probably breaking a few hearts along the way.
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He sure got into mine. He was so cute. Ineffective where Carmen was concerned, but he sure cheered everybody else up.
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Carmen just likes being the center of attention and she knows how to get it. Someday someone will teach her about bad behaviors and their consequences.
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Let’s hope. 🙂
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Trevor saves the day!
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Yes, like a one baby cavalry.
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Sounds like he knows he’s a charmer. Even if it didn’t work on the girl, I’m sure it charmed all the adults in the store. 🙂
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Me being one. 🙂
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