Top Comment -- Cindy (RE: A bowl full of condoms): I used to tell my kids they were balloons. That backfired when they wanted me to make balloon animals with them, as I could only manage a snake. So "the talk" with the eldest went something like this. "You mean those WEREN'T balloons?" Still rebuilding trust.
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.
Top Comment -- Cindy (RE: A bowl full of condoms): I used to tell my kids they were balloons. That backfired when they wanted me to make balloon animals with them, as I could only manage a snake. So "the talk" with the eldest went something like this. "You mean those WEREN'T balloons?" Still rebuilding trust.
