Get amoxicillin, not a latte.

It's edging on that season at Starbucks (no, not red cup season or pumpkin spice latte season, since it came ridiculously early this year)--the season when people start coming in asking what they should get to soothe a scratchy throat or a cough. Or aches and chills. The baristas are groomed to answer with some sort of magical hot tea blend. Or to sniff in the amazing aroma of the coffee to cleanse those nasal passages.

After someone sneezed in their hand, then got out their wallet to get their gold card, as they simultaneously asked Adam, "What should I get for my sore throat?," my husband went off script. He answered...

"A prescription for amoxicillin."