The Slice Here’s A Case Of The Good, The Bad And The Natural
About 40 readers shared their views on witnessing breast-feeding in public. Here’s a sampling.
“I love to see it…it’s ridiculous that in this country women are second-guessed for using their breasts for their intended purpose.”
“It sucks.”
“It’s awesome.”
“It’s disgusting.”
“It’s beautiful.”
“I’ve got no problem if they use a blanket or something as a covering.”
“Sure it’s natural, but so is going to the bathroom.”
“I can think of much more offensive public behavior than that.”
“You sure don’t see men sitting on a bench in the mall with their pants off.”
But Mary Wemhoff, Bill Boaz and others said the real question is what were those parents thinking when they brought an infant to “Fiddler on the Roof” in the first place?
You can feel the weekend starting to fade away when: a.) You realize it’s already Saturday afternoon. b.) It finally gets dark Saturday night. c.) No one in your household will own up to having taken the Sunday comics section. d.) That telltale tick, tick, tick from the TV signals that “60 Minutes” is about to break the news that cigarette makers care more about profits than public health.
Perhaps he thought she was related to the Telly Savalas character in “The Dirty Dozen”: “Once I introduced myself to somebody as Maggie and he thought I said ‘Maggot,”’ said a woman whose initials are M.A.G.
And a nickname was born.
Details, details: Gaye Shumaker told her preschool son, Jackson, that she was glad to see that his eyes were turning the same color as hers. The little boy corrected her. “Mine don’t have blood shot in them,” he said.
Sure, we miss “Calvin & Hobbes”: But there are still plenty of real-life Calvins around. We heard about a 3-year-old Spokane boy who put a hockey helmet on backward, rigged up a cape-like deal and started loudly doing this deep, slow death-rattle breathing. “Darth Vader,” he explained to his grandmother.
Reader-suggested warm-up question: Do people enjoy hearing “You look just like your mother” or “You look just like your dad”?
Today’s Slice question: What would Freud have said about Inland Northwest men and truck tires?
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