The Slice For Some Bosses, Vacation Schedules Difficult To Digest
Things could be worse.
At least you don’t have a boss who greets every attempt to schedule vacation time with moans, dyspeptic expressions and insane petulance.
Survivable disappointments:
1. Seeing Spokane ranked 456th in the latest list of livable cities.
2. Potato salad lacking zing.
3. Saying “I’ll have the usual” and then being asked what that is.
4. Overhearing someone who had complimented your work praising the performance of a co-worker you consider to be a talentless moron.
5. Not getting invited to a party you wouldn’t have attended anyway.
6. Picking up a quarter off the sidewalk and discovering there’s something sticky on it.
7. Hearing company from out-of-town belittle the local news media.
8. Having a waitress/waiter that you were quite content to politely regard as a sex object begin to reveal a personality, forcing you to view her/him as a person.
9. The Cougars not going to the Rose Bowl game.
10. Sweet onions that aren’t.
11. Finding a house you like and then discovering that the subdivision is called Schlockwood Forest or Paranoid Hills.
12. Discovering that co-workers do mocking impressions of the way your voice sounds when you are excited.
One reason some people never travel: There’s nothing quite like being out of town and telling someone that you’re from Spokane and then being asked a bunch of questions about Seattle.
Slice answers: Barbara Crippen’s mother, the late Sylvia Hawes, moved from Spokane to Southern California years ago. And once Crippen asked her if there was anything she missed about Spokane. The older woman, never a big fan of the Lilac City, thought about it and said, no, there wasn’t much. Well, she added, except for trees, parks, lakes….
One of our favorite definitions for “Colfax” used as verb was “To wrongfully ticket.”
Another reader suggested “Mullan” would mean “To consider.”
Warm-up questions: Whose deskmate slurps loudest? What is the dumbest thing ever said to someone with alopecia? What’s the highest you ever got a kite? A sitcom based on your cats would be called what? Who’s the worst table-tennis loser?
Today’s Slice question: Long after every other business has cleared the air, what Spokane area establishment will still allow cigarette smoking?
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