The Slice Sometimes It Takes A Kid To Point Out The Obvious
Deer Park’s Ruth Robison is pretty sure her little great-grandson wasn’t being a smart aleck.
He was just curious about the nicotine patches she’s using in an attempt to stop smoking. And the boy, Cody Wenger, couldn’t figure out why she would wear them on her arm. So he said what was on his mind.
“Why don’t you put them on your mouth?”
Slice answers: After we asked if anyone around here carpooled, Neil Lindsey wrote: “The people that can, don’t. And the people who would like to, can’t.”
In the matter of whether people at Fairchild Air Force Base feel that they are a part of Spokane, Laurie Stroebel said the answer is “Yes.”
“We pay taxes, shop at the same stores, drive the same congested north/south arterials and best of all…WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE SAME POTHOLES.”
Other readers told about workplace dreams that included, among other things, checking heads for lice and designing beautiful quilts.
Twenty minutes in the life of a Spokane grocery store parking lot (1:55 - 2:15 Sunday afternoon):
Door dings inflicted on unoccupied cars: 3
Door dings inflicted on occupied cars: 1
Number of times small children were told in a nice way to watch for cars: 2
Number of times small children were snappishly told to watch for cars: 1
Men laughing at something said by the woman with them: 1
Teenage girls pretending that they weren’t with their families: 1
Shopping carts with one wildly wobbly wheel: 1
Dogs waiting in cars and barking at anyone who came near: 2
Kisses involving a man and a woman who arrived at the parking lot in separate cars: 1
Skunk-upmanship: After running the item about skunks ruling the South Hill, we heard from readers in half a dozen other Spokane area neighborhoods. All argued that their skunks are bigger, more numerous and aromatically twice as potent.
Suit him up: A preschooler who is wild about hockey was talking to his baby cousin, who is just a few weeks old. The older boy explained that when the infant got just a little bigger, he could play goalie.
Today’s Slice question: To get along in Spokane, it is necessary to at least pretend that you know what?
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