The Slice ‘Spokane Disease’: Is There A Cure For This Epidemic?

We overheard someone allude to “Spokane disease,” but we didn’t catch enough of the conversation to know what it was supposed to mean.

Any guesses?

A friend in Pullman reported this recent dinner table exchange: Mother: “Casey, you just have to be more positive.”

Casey, 9: “Mother, I AM positive. I’m positive I do not like this spaghetti sauce.”

Least favorite public art: “My vote goes to those totally abstract (read: meaningless) slabs of rock jutting out of the ground in front of the railroad station,” wrote Spokane’s Richard T. Brown.

The Slice’s Law: If you recommend a Spokane restaurant to friends, they will go and experience breathtakingly incompetent, insulting service.

Jason Harward wants someone to write a book titled: “How to Succeed in Network Marketing Without Alienating Everyone You Know.”

Boomers’ dirty little secret: A lot thought Bread was a heavy group.

Just wondering: Does your glove compartment appear to defy the laws of physics? Standlee McMains decrees: “If you don’t signal, don’t drive.”

Survivors: For 10 years now, Toni Pille has been feeding two goldfish that her then 17-year-old daughter got at a festival in Odessa.

And Janet Lake wrote: “In August of 1977, when I was a teacher’s aide at Shoshone Head Start in Kellogg, I bought a goldfish for the classroom. Both the fish and I are still at Head Start (I’m the principal now).”

By the way, they are accepting donations for their scholarship fund. Call (208) 784-5581.

Warm-up question for people whose last names are also common first names: How often do clerks and bureaucrats treat you like an idiot because they think you cannot understand the difference between your own first and last names?

Today’s Slice question: What’s a good name for a Washington wine that nobody has used yet? (Our idea: Tumtum Blush.)

, DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: Drawing of a wine bottle

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