Looks are key to the question
Shadle Park High School’s Bob Isitt has been teaching for more than 30 years.
“So it’s not unusual to get the children of former students in my class,” he said.
Recently one of his pupils said her mom thinks she might have had Isitt for a teacher way back when.
Apparently that parent had told the girl a few stories. But still, the student was skeptical. She needed to verify that her teacher was indeed the same Mr. Isitt.
So, based on her mom’s accounts, she had one question for him: “Did you used to be good-looking?”
Slice answers: “I think anyone who wants to wear cowboy hats and boots should wear them,” said Sarah Wasicek.
“Only cowboys and little kids,” said Jo Pickens.
And Ritzville’s Karen Meye said her brother Mark Humphrey and his wife Deb get to wear them. They operate a cattle ranch near Reardan.
Spokane support groups now forming: Husbands Who Refused to Go to “The Lion King” and Expect to be Hearing about it for a Long, Long Time.
South Hill Residents Who Can’t Figure Out Why They are Hearing Trains in the Middle of the Night.
Eastern Washington Voters All Pouty Because They Don’t Get Their Way in Statewide Elections.
Sportswriters Who Have to Cover the Apple Cup.
Hospital Patients with Nearly Deaf Roommates Who Keep the TV on with the Volume Set on Stun All Day and All Night. (Maybe it’s time for earphones to be made universally available.)
Fallout: Slice reader Doug Hancock has a question for those who live in Peaceful Valley under the Maple Street Bridge: “What is the weirdest thing that you have found that was thrown from a passing car above?”
Doing it daily: Tim Yeager, who sees his share of newspapers, doesn’t take one of the S-R’s offerings for granted. With that in mind, he suggested a new civic slogan.
“Near nature with the comics in color.”
Slice answers: “My husband, George Kropp, is so obsessed with parking ‘just so,’ that he has the garage marked off with electrical tape,” wrote Milly Kropp.
And Teddy Bernier in Pend Oreille County said that, thanks to her husband, they have more than 20 cords of firewood chopped and stacked.
Pet peeve: Tire sales offering the fourth one free if you buy three.
Warm-up questions: When was the last time you held a baby? In the course of examining your head and neck, has your hair stylist ever diagnosed a serious medical condition? Has anyone at your office not heard about your 1995 skiing injury?
Today’s Slice question: What Inland Northwest resident has demonstrated the least impressive learning curve when it comes to figuring out the color code/floor-numbering system at River Park Square?