The Slice: Can we charge that turkey with beaking and entering?

Curt Stone was awakened from an evening nap by an ungodly banging noise coming from the deck just outside his bedroom.

“It sounded like someone was trying to break into the house,” said the late-shift registered nurse who lives just outside Colville.

Actually it was a huge male turkey that had a beef with its own reflection in the glass part of a door.

Stone opened up and asked, “What is your malfunction?”

The bird charged him but was stopped by a screen. Eventually it left in a huff.

“I’m glad my wife was out of town,” said Stone. “She would have dismissed the whole thing as a squabble between two old turkeys.”

Speaking of birds, Spokane’s Enid Kiefer once heard a parent wren screeching when a neighbor’s kitten seemed intent on climbing up to check out a nest full of baby wrens in a tree in Kiefer’s backyard.

Kiefer chased the cat away, but the persistent feline kept coming back. So she eventually doused it with some water.

Thereafter, whenever the kitten set a paw in the yard, the adult wren called Kiefer and told her to bring the bucket.

“Having what it takes for country living, continued: Wende and Tom Barker shared their thoughts.

“We like people but like the idea of acres between us and our neighbors instead of just a fence. You do need to have a little frontier spirit and independence about you to be totally happy. And it really helps to have a good repairman around the place.”

“Generation bridge: I heard from several parents who told about liking some of their children’s favorite music. I’ll let Peggy Rolando speak for the group.

“A lot of people have a certain impression about contemporary music, but it’s not all rap and hip-hop,” she wrote. “There’s a lot of talent out there and they’re writing beautiful melodies and interesting lyrics.”

“Slice answer: Karen Mobley guessed that Lincoln County might be the most tattoo-free local county, with the exception of some older military veterans.

“Warm-up question: What happened after you or someone you hired redid your bathroom and used the wrong kind of paint?

“Today’s Slice question: A Slice reader who had not ridden a bicycle in a long, long, time was about to go for a test spin outside a Spokane bike shop. “Don’t judge me,” she said to the nice young guy helping her.

He urged her not to worry and added that he had seen it all. To illustrate his point, he told about an obviously intoxicated woman who arrived at the shop right after opening one recent morning, demanding to be given a bike to try out.

The reader who shared this story noted that she never would have imagined someone showing up at a bicycle shop in that state. Which leads us to today’s question.

Do you ever have to unexpectedly deal with drunks in your business?