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The Slice: The Slice: Sweet sugary flashbacks

The Slice had asked about the circumstances surrounding a perfect bottle of pop, nostalgia being one of the ingredients.

Susan Johnson had an answer.

“(The perfect bottle of pop) was one we pulled out of the ice cold water in the case at my granddad’s Chevron service station in Kettle Falls when I was a kid,” she wrote. “We lived in Metaline Falls and our first stop when going to visit the grandparents was the station for a pop and candy bar. Granddad’s treat!”

Peter Yocom also weighed in.

“A Hires Root Beer on an August day in Pennsylvania when the temperature and the humidity matched at 95,” he wrote. “The best.”

Fit for the road: Rob Wright took his teenage daughter to get her driver’s license.

The examiner asked about medical conditions that might preclude the girl from getting a license. He looked at Rob’s daughter, then at Rob.

Rob said what was on his mind. “Besides being a teenage girl?”

His daughter turned to him and said, “I’m pretty sure sass is not a condition, Dad.”

Ready to meet her maker: “So I’m driving up Maple Street in heavy traffic with a car weaving erratically next to me,” wrote Keith Hegg.

He assumed the driver was texting because she kept looking down.

“At a stop light I looked over and see she is reading a book while driving.”

At a glance, he could see it had black and red text and appeared to be a New Testament.

Keith could not help but think that if she continued driving that way she might well meet the central figure in that volume sooner than expected.

Turnabout’s fair play: “Seattle has a Spokane Street, but Spokane doesn’t have a Seattle Street, does it?” wrote Fred Jessett. “Inquiring minds want to know.”

Does a Seattle Avenue on Fairchild Air Force Base count?

Civilian applications of military training: “The first useless ‘skill’ that comes to mind is how we had to roll our socks in Officer Candidate School,” wrote Coeur d’Alene’s Patty Hager, who was in the Army. “We were required to roll each individual sock in such a way it made a smile, and you had to line all your sock smiles so the socks smiled in the same direction. Who would do this in civilian life?”

Today’s Slice question: Are all bridesmaids dresses really that horrible?

Write The Slice at P. O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; email pault@spokesman.com. What taught you to always turn the handles of cooking pans toward the center of a stove?

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