The Slice The Karens In Rosalia Just Seem To Have All The Answers

A question came up.

And this guy says to talk to Karen at the bank in Rosalia.

So we find a phone listing for a bank in Rosalia, call and ask for Karen. Karen comes on, answers our question and then tells us in a totally polite way that we really want to talk to the Karen at the other bank.

Slice answer: Graham Gombosky is 17 now. But when he was in grade school, he got a bean stuck in his ear. It sprouted and he had to go to the emergency room.

Further evidence that we are out of touch: So we were standing in line behind a young woman at Great Harvest downtown. And she wrote a check for her purchase. A check for 85 cents. This struck us as fairly remarkable. But the first two times we told the story, our listeners looked at us with “Yeah, so?” expressions.

That’s because the person would actually have to know something: “There are movie critics, book critics, fashion critics, and restaurant critics, but there are few science critics.” - from “A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper” by John Allen Paulos

Complete this sentence: You know someone has had way too much garlic when….

Tip for parents: Want to drive your young adult children crazy? When they give you business cards from their first real jobs, ask about a hundred annoying questions about the design of the cards.

Cathy Ralston’s suggested Spokane driver’s motto: “Death before yielding.”

Warning: Long ago, we went to see a piece of film called “Get Yourself a College Girl” (Tonight on TNT) because the Dave Clark Five and the Animals were featured in previews. They’re on for about two seconds.

Warm-up questions: Is there someone in every family who can’t walk through a parking lot without running into some vehicle’s outside rear-view mirror? Why are there so many people around here wearing University of Michigan stuff?

Today’s Slice question: If you knew then what you know now, what would you have changed about your wedding day?

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