The Slice: Anybody else warming up to the idea?

This is going to sound crazy, but here goes.

What if, this winter, everyone around here dressed appropriately?

You know, hats and proper footwear. Decent coats. Good gloves. The works.

Or would that just take the fun out of complaining?

•Name game: “Our first dog was named Mazama, followed by Ozette, a historical Native American village near Neah Bay,” wrote Lori Howard. “When we were expecting our first child, my sister requested that we not name him or her something like Washtucna.”

•Speaking of pet names: Readers added to Monday’s list.

Bob Curry said Endicott would be a good name for a basset hound.

Mike O’Neal thinks Pullman might suit a sled dog.

Darlene Hardenbrook would name an Airedale “Veradale,” “Vera” for short.

K.C. Stacy suggested a lost dog could be called Coulee.

And Dr. Brian Hunter could imagine a Russian wolfhound named Moscow.

•Most Norman Rockwell-like polling place: “I vote for my precinct that is located in the Cloverleaf Grange Hall on McGuire Road in Post Falls,” wrote Milt Nelson.

•Just wondering: Are drinkers of cheap beer more prone to littering for various socio-economic/cultural reasons or is the seeming prevalence of discount-brand cans along roadsides a simple reflection of sales volumes?

•Slice answer: “The first time I used one of those bike racks (on an STA bus) I forgot to grab my bike and the bus driver had to honk the horn on the bus to get my attention so I didn’t forget it,” wrote Jackie Adamietz. “The bike ended up getting stolen out of my garage about a month later.”

•Married with different last names: Sometimes, when this comes up, Alison Highberger has been known to say, “He married me, he didn’t adopt me.”

•It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: The attitudes one encounters when trying to get assistance at Spokane International Airport at 10:30 p.m. range from imperious and dismissive to reassuring and genuinely helpful.

•Warm-up question: What percentage of first conversations with neighbors are prompted by burglaries?

•Today’s Slice question: Short of devoting your life to supervising preschooler hand-washing, how do you prevent little kids with sticky fingers from turning all of your household’s remote controls into tacky jelly-smeared disasters?