Mixed returns: Readers disagreed about whether Spokane has a higher percentage of jerks than the national average. "Jerks don't have enough sense to stay," wrote one woman.

Others argued that one need only drive a car to arrive at an answer that does not flatter the Lilac City.

Hmmm. We suspect there are inconsiderate motorists everywhere -- even if not every city requires a remedial "Stop for red" campaign.

But one reader suggested Spokane has more than its share of people angry at the world because they made lousy wages for decades. And, the theory goes, they vent hostility in countless impotent but annoying ways.

Of course, a lot of us are jerks once in a while. And that makes a city's j-quotient impossible to determine.

But here's our guess. National jerk percentage: 16. Spokane area percentage: 14.

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