The Slice Welcome! Don’t Park Here
A.W. Leaming gets a kick out of the two signs that greet people driving north on Regal near 44th, “Entering Spokane” and, right next to it, “No Parking at Any Time.”
Slice answers: When Laura Hildreth was 5, she got a goldfish at a fair in Stevensville, Mont. She named it Gilbert. And 11 years later, the pet is still going strong.
We heard about another fair goldfish, named Garfield, won in Spokane in 1987. That fish reportedly is now more than 13 inches long.
In the matter of businesses with employees so good-looking they actually attract customers, we received this note: “Have you been to Birkebeiner’s lately?”
And we heard from a guy who admitted to ordering sandwiches from a downtown restaurant in part because of the young woman who delivers them to his office.
In other words, don’t just say “Yes” to make the other person go away: “Agree to a solution only if you can implement it.” - from Hendrie Weisinger’s book “Anger at Work”
Call it “testing”: Grocery stores aren’t fooling anybody. We know why they stock Halloween candy so early.
A caller named Cindy wonders: What is meant by the prenuptial phrase “finalize an engagement”?
The aging process: Peter Corbett turned 5 on Sept. 10. But his parents, Jim and Jane, started his “birthday week” celebrations so early that by the time the big day actually arrived, the slightly confused little boy had one question: “Am I 6?”
Sports section: Let’s start with a cheap shot. A friend attending one of the first events at the Spokane Arena overheard a guy surveying the stillempty display cases for the Inland Northwest Sports Hall of Fame say “That’s fitting.”
And people near 4-year-old Dalton Golden at a late-season Spokane Indians game knew he’d seen too many movies when he said “Mom, when are the angels gonna come?”
Today’s Slice question: If you wrote an editorial, what would it say?
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