The Slice Over The Houses The Through The Air To Grandmother’s House We Go
And now, another exciting installment of Little Kids and Flying.
When the plane started going up through the clouds, 4-year-old Jordyn Kern smiled and said “Finally, I get to see God.”
Andrew Tarpley, 4, looked down at the all the seemingly tiny buildings and said “Mommy, we’re monsters.”
Blake Yirak, 3, was disappointed that the airliner never flipped over and flew upside-down.
And when Katie Peabody was 3, she expressed grave reservations about air travel, “Because pirates drive airplanes!”
Eventually, she was persuaded that it was “pilots” and that they usually could be trusted.
What’s wrong with this picture: The Swell Paper’s fax cover sheets include the helpful message “If not received please call sender.”
Slice answers: What word best describes Spokane Indians baseball? Answers included Otto (the mascot), fantastic, lame, T-ball, losers, Seafirst, fun, foul and Spokanesque.
They were there first: A reader who works at the Post Falls wastewater treatment plant wonders what goes through the minds of people who move in next to various public or industrial facilities and THEN complain about the noisy airport, smelly sewage treatment plant or whatever.
Taste test: Simon Miller’s aunt heard him declare that his father had said fruit was a good alternative to candy. So she asked the 4-year-old if he knew what “alternative” meant.
Sure, said Simon. “It means something really bad.”
Warm-up question from Jessie Bekken: What’s the best use for old TV remote-controls?
Warm-up question from Tom Zysk: Who in the Spokane area shows up at work with the best brought-from-home lunches?
Today’s Slice question: At what Spokane area business do customers find themselves thinking “The people who handle the hiring here sure know what they are doing”?
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