The Slice Non-Confrontation Wields A Certain Simple Satisfaction
Sometimes you just want to hug the person behind the cash register.
We were second in line at a downtown drug store the other day. Then the woman ahead of us finished her business and left.
But before we could say a word, this other woman zoomed in front of us. With her body language, she declared herself first in line. We were dumbstruck.
Then something great happened. Rudeness got what it deserved.
The young woman behind the service counter looked right past the encroacher and helped us with our transaction.
We walked out of there smiling.
Extra cheese: Spokane’s Nicki Moffatt had to get a message to two sons visiting Portland. But phone service in the neighborhood where the boys were staying had been knocked out by a storm. So Moffatt called a Portland pizza place and had a delivery person pass on her message, along with a pizza.
Slice answers: Jason Stout, who drives a 1984 Subaru, and Milly Roberg, whose car is a 1976 Ford Maverick, are among the Spokane area motorists sitting on ridiculously worn-out driver’s seats.
We’re betting an exchange along these lines took place somewhere around here this week: Woman (miffed): “Enjoying those pictures of women in revealing underwear?”
Man (sheepish): “Um, this flier came in our Nordstrom bill.”
Woman: “Right.”
You need to have a composer’s last name to live in this neighborhood: “Dvorak, Wagner and Schubert live within a few houses of each other other in Farmington, Wash.,” wrote Gabriel Schubert. “No music coming through the roofs though.”
Santa’s helpers: Spokane’s Linda Walline wants to thank the anonymous benefactor who has left substantial Christmas gifts for her family on the porch the last two years.
Not everyone wanted to hear it when 12-year-old Mark Charyk came up with this verse a few days ago:
A December shower
Brings no power
Parking lot luge: One Slice reader wonders why some shopping carts at grocery stores in this part of the country don’t come equipped with little skis or sled-like runners.
Today’s Slice question: What’s the quintessential local hors d’oeuvre?
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