The Slice Call It A Familiar Sight
It must say something about this area’s sense of itself that when people hear your last name, they often assume they know who you are.
We were in an optometrist’s office the other day when a cheerful employee asked a man in the waiting room for his name.
“Lydig,” he said.
“Do you have the construction company?” she asked.
“That’s my brother,” he answered.
Like we said. Happens all the time around here.
One more bra-shopping adventure: “My favorite bra story is actually my Aunt Katherine’s,” wrote Pend Oreille County’s Eva Gayle Six.
“She had been living several years abroad, where the difficulty of locating bras, combined with the discomfort of the heat, had caused her to completely abandon the practice of wearing one.”
Upon returning to the U.S., she felt compelled to resume the habit.
“She took her chubby self into a lingerie department and made her need known,” wrote Six.
The clerk took a look at her and asked what cup size she needed.
“Oh, gee,” said the uncertain shopper, not sure how to answer.
“I’m sorry,” the clerk interjected. “We only carry A, B, C and D.”
She wonders how many people have similar stories: Like many others attending Expo ‘74, Spokane’s Doris Aaron was given a tree sprig that was just a few inches tall.
She planted hers. For the first couple of years, the evergreen barely grew. But she kept watering it. “Then it just took off,” she wrote. “And now it is over 50 feet tall.”
Breaking the area code: Kim Moors of Post Falls wasn’t happy to see her sister leave Spokane and move to San Francisco recently. But Moors and others in the family had to recognize that Karen Holman’s departure was, well, destiny.
Holman’s randomly issued Washington license plate had predicted the move some time ago. It reads “509 - CYA”.
Get ‘em off me: We were talking with a longtime Spokane resident and public official who grew up in and still visits the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The subject turned to the flying insect pests of summer.
It reminded us that some Inland Northwest residents don’t know how good they’ve got it.
Hats off to The Inlander: For ongoing coverage of Carrot Top.
Today’s Slice question: If you had to choose one answer or the other, would you say Spokane is a “woman’s town” or a “man’s town”?
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