The Slice: Coming up with a fall-back plan

Using the extra hour for sleep is always an option.

But if you want to come up with some other plan for making the most of the hour gained when daylight saving time ends this weekend, you have almost limitless choices.

I’ll show you. Here are a few options for using the “fall back” hour.

1. Invent something that prevents snowplows from creating a wall of snow and ice at the end of your driveway.

2. Send some nice “Thinking of you” cards to acquaintances who have GU basketball season tickets.

3. Learn several Italian verbs.

4. Spend an hour shredding old paperwork that shows your account numbers or other personal information.

5. Prepare a five-star breakfast.

States of the union: “Your story re: the bank teller and her knowledge of the East Coast reminded me of the time I had moved to Nebraska in 1984 (from Spokane),” wrote Annie Shiffer. “The postman for the apartment building I’d recently moved out of was certain I’d moved to the state of New England because the postal abbreviation for Omaha’s state is NE. My former neighbor could not convince him otherwise.”

Slice answer: How hideous is your posture? “It’s only hideous when sitting on a stool at the local bar,” wrote Gary Polser.

Greetings from Spokane: The question about what visitors to Spokane wrote on postcards mailed here long ago came to mind because of a card my sister-in-law in Michigan found online.

It shows a downtown scene, looking east from The Spokesman-Review.

It has a Nov. 19, 1913, Spokane postmark. I can’t decipher the signature of the sender.

Mailed to someone in California (I cannot make out the name of the town), the personal message says Spokane is a fine (it might be “fun”) city. “Weather quite cold. A little snow today.”

I wonder if people driving Ford Model Ts in Spokane back then knew to slow down when the streets were icy.

Today’s Slice question: In 1966’s “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken,” Don Knotts plays a Barney Fife-esque newspaper typesetter who wants to be a reporter at the small Kansas daily where he works.

If, inexplicably, that movie were going to be remade 50 years later, how would the story line be updated to reflect 2016?

Your answer could win you a coveted reporter’s notebook.

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