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Slice answer: “I got a warning instead of a ticket, and I wasn’t even driving,” wrote Kevin Fletcher.
Kevin and his twin brother Ken were on a double date in the early 1980s. Ken was driving. He got pulled over by a police officer.
Ken said, “Kevin, I don’t have my wallet, give me your license.”
So, before the officer got to the vehicle, Kevin handed his license to Ken.
“I was issued a warning for a turn signal infraction.”
Kevin said his brother still owes him for that.
Better late than never: “I believe we may hold the title for ‘Latest removal of snow tires,’ ” wrote Cheri Deters. “Last week, while moving, we used a car that had been in storage. It drove REALLY loud. You guessed it – we never removed the studded tires from last season.
“Heads turned at Les Schwab in Post Falls. There was no line or waiting to have them switched. Maybe we’re on to something.”
When a handkerchief came in handy: “I was glad to be carrying one the day a colleague cut the end of her finger off in a car door,” wrote Wade Griffith.
No, it’s Spokane: Colene Hakes was at Greenwood Memorial Terrace with her 3 1/2-year-old granddaughter. Colene explained that, though his remains were there, her late father was in heaven playing with the family’s long-gone dogs. She further explained that the little girl wouldn’t be able to actually see him.
So the child had a question. “Is this heaven?”
Fast food lessons: “My first job was at McDonald’s,” wrote Julie Shepard-Hall.
“What I learned while working there is still ingrained in me today,” she wrote.
She offered a list, including this.
“When you come through the back door, whatever problems you are having stay at the back door until you get off your shift.”
How you would maintain classroom order if you were a substitute teacher during these last few days of school: “Bullwhip,” wrote Lan Hellie.
Astonishing fact: There are people who don’t know who was president when they were born.
Today’s Slice question: What happened when you purchased new appliances for an old house?
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