Baby Games People Play

I told this story at the end of this morning’s show and it certainly got peoples’ attention! If you are eating, please stop while you read this. Please? Ok, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

At a baby shower for my wonderful friend Lisa, her best friend Susan (another terrific woman) was in charge of the games. Is there anything that strikes a bigger fear into the heart of a non-Mom than baby shower games?? I think not. But I digress.

In one game, four diapers are passed around the room. In each diaper is a melted chocolate bar where the poop would be. It is up to the guests to guess the name of each bar. As the wee diapers went around the room and women buried their noses in them, sniffing and looking for tell-tale signs (oooh, look – this one has nuts!) my stomach did a little flip. That game, I sat out. I simply smiled and just kept passing the closed diapers to the person next to me!

I thought it was kind of gross but more so because of the visual aspect of the melted chocolate in the diaper. However, when I told the story to Paul on air – as tamely and basically as possible with no mention of the nuts – our poor technical producer Tom dashed out of the studio, believing he was going to be sick! He wasn’t, thankfully, but his stomach had obviously done a flip, too.

I have no problem changing a real baby diaper and they can be downright nasty. But there’s something about a delicious treat masquerading as baby feces that assaults the senses in a very unpleasant way! When the obligatory garbage bag went around the room for placement of plastic cups and gift wrap, I tried to toss in the diapers but the hostess said, “No, let’s keep them to show Andy! (the baby’s father)”. I thought, that’s just cruel! But I put them back on the coffee table and tried very hard not to think about the crunchy cookie centres, sweet candy coatings and creamy caramel within.

You may now resume eating. The danger has passed.