The Slice A Double Latte Will Make A Big Boo-Boo Feel Better

Marilyn Conklin had her signal on and was waiting to turn into her favorite espresso stand on East Sprague when she got rear-ended.

After exchanging insurance information with the other driver, she proceeded to pull over to the stand to get her coffee. “I saw what just happened to you,” said the person at the service window. “You’re getting a double and it’s on the house.”

Sorry, wrong number: A woman called Dan and Kathey Birdsell’s Deer Park home and asked about the quality of their seed potatoes. After a moment of confusion, it became clear that the caller was trying to reach a garden center and had misdialed. Well, not clear to everyone apparently. Because the befuddled caller then said “If you don’t have seed potatoes, do you have any onion sets?”

And a few years ago, John Thornton shared a house with a couple of other bachelors. And it turned out that the last person to have their phone number had managed a troupe of male strippers called the Wild Stallions.

So, naturally, when people called and asked if they had reached the Wild Stallions, Thornton and other the bachelors had to say, well, “Yes.”

They’re close but they aren’t the same: We prefer the roadside buckleup reminders worded “It’s our law” to the ones that say “It’s the law.”

No sale: A telemarketer asked Ruth Troup if her windows were wood or metal. They’re glass, she said.

Today’s breast-feeding item: Colville’s Camille Alumbaugh has a friend who likes to tout the “three C’s” of breast-feeding. It’s cheap. It’s convenient. And it comes in a cute container.

Slice answers: J.B. Sing said 77.3 percent of this area’s teens - a figure he agreed was probably the national average - can’t wait to get out of here. “They don’t know any better,” he explained. “They’ll be back.”

Several others said “100 percent.”

Warm-up questions: Who has the best saluting form at Fairchild Air Force Base? Who gets the most e-mail in the Spokane area? What Inland Northwest business has the wittiest name? Are people saving letters received from Tom Foley?

Today’s Slice question: Can you name an American city that flies more Canadian flags than Spokane?

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