The Slice Apparently, It Wasn’t A Token Of Affection
Betsy Weigle was digging in her garden when she found two coin-like state sales tax tokens.
“Do you or any of your readers have any idea what these were for and when they were used?” she wrote.
Never mind that. Why would someone bury them?
Apparently he’s not a math buff: “Our young grandson is a history buff,” wrote Pat Taylor of Nine Mile Falls. “One day he was discussing my mother-in-law’s age. ‘Grandma Jennie is old - she’s 85,’ he said. ‘That’s REAL old. I’ll bet she goes back as far as the Boston Tea Party.”’
She said her shoe flew off one time when she did this: The elevator doors were about to close in a Spokane office building when a woman out in the hallway flicked a foot in and out of the narrowing gap, prompting an electric eye to trigger a reopening of the doors. “Did you like my little Rockette kick?” she asked as she entered the elevator, smiling.
Yes.
Two-fer: In recent weeks, we’ve asked for stories about memorable tantrums and for accounts of driver’s exam experiences. Well, Bobbi Corbin served up a combo-plate. Once, at a licensing office, Corbin’s daughter pitched such a monumental fit over not being able to have her own next-in-line number that mother and child were asked to leave.
One more list of readers’ nominations for the title “Least arrogant doctor in the Inland Northwest”: Stu Fealk, J.D. Fitterer, Timothy Icenogle, Greg Luna, Jay Wittenkeller, Curt Wickre, Elizabeth Sundberg, Robert Benedetti, William Allen, Welzie Allen, Samuel Joseph, Jose Cardell, Julia Hutchinson, Joseph Kincaid, Peter Fern, Dan Cammack, Henry Arguinchona, Gary Lee, Jim Mellema, Peter Graves, Dan Brutocao and Cecilia Kuyper.
Someone who’s not complaining: “I moved up here from Southern California two years ago, and I’m very happy here,” wrote Marjorie Thorpe. “Spokane is a big city with the heart and soul of a small town.”
True or false: Pedestrians never have the right-of-way in Spokane.
Warm-up question: Do you know any smart people who have moronic-sounding laughs?
Today’s Slice question: What strange thing have you dug up in your garden?
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