The Slice Single Life In Spokane - What’s The Real Story?

With Valentine’s Day just a month away, IN Life is looking for single men and women willing to be interviewed about dating.

Wait, wait, come back. This will be painless. We won’t take up a lot of your time droning on about our own past relationships. We won’t ask if you enjoy candlelit dinners or long walks on the beach.

We just want to know if you’ve got dating figured out. And if not, what have you learned so far?

Young, old, never married, divorced … we just want to hear your observations about the realities of courtship in the Spokane area in the ‘90s. Are you having a blast? Are you discouraged? What’s the secret to making a first date fun? Are you convinced that you’ll never understand the other gender?

We want to know. So if you think you might get a kick out of talking to a reporter about your experiences on the front lines of romance, please pass along your name and a daytime phone number to The Slice.

We’ll call you back. We promise.

Slice answers: About 20 women were nominated for the title, “Spokane’s sexiest grandmother.” But to avoid embarrassing anyone, we’ve decided not to print the names.

Suggestions for ways to steer clear of colds and flu included getting a flu shot, not getting a flu shot, avoiding dairy products, avoiding medicine, frequent hand-washing, washing phones before using them, lots of exercise, never shaking hands, having a boss who doesn’t praise sick people for showing up at the office and never putting your hands near your face.

Then there was this. “My secret is lots of 7-Up,” wrote Nick Howard.

Readers were divided in their reactions to football players kneeling in prayer in the end zone. But nobody we heard from objects to tip cups.

And Nancy Burke’s choice for a word that best describes helping a 5-year-old get dressed is “eternity”

And the Academy Award doesn’t go to … : There’s a downtown businessman who has panhandlers come in and ask for bus fare. When he opens his cash register, they smile. But when he pulls out a bus-ride token, they never quite manage to conceal their disappointment.

Overheard: A teenage girl in a Spokane shop held up a frilly beneath-the-wedding-dress garter and explained to her baffled boyfriend that it was a “garnet.”

Today’s Slice question: If you turned your place into a bed and breakfast, what would you name it?

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