The Slice Good Thing There Are Lots Of Eateries In Spokane

Remember, smokers aren’t the only ones who can vote with their feet when it comes to restaurants’ air-pollution policies.

You know someone has overdosed on shopping when: “The wrapping paper runs out before the gifts do.” - Janene M. Scott

Couples/conflict continued: “In the Inland Northwest, nothing causes more arguments than canoeing or kayaking (in a two-passenger) on our beautiful rivers and lakes,” wrote Pullman’s Jaye Jaye Talbot. “The fights often concern who gets to steer or whose paddle shouldn’t have been where and end with a chilling swim and maddening scramble for drifting artifacts, thus provoking a fresh round of accusations.”

Dannie Loriano suggested that one source of arguments might be husbands taking just a little too much interest in the weather report when KXLY-TV’s Laura Ashley is on the tube.

And we found this message from a weary-sounding woman on our phonemail: “The Inland Northwest argument is the one that starts when the wife’s horse eats the husband’s brand-new, just-built corral fence. We’re in one right now.”

Best address in Chewelah: April Olson lives at 2270 Cozy Nook Road.

One of The Slice’s pet peeves: When a person working at a drivethrough espresso stand hands you a drink that’s dripping down the outside of the cup and then acts like it’s a pain when you ask for a napkin.

This just in: A Spokane reader called to report that doctors don’t like being reminded that not all physicians finished at the top of their class.

No kidding: “An otherwise positive day can be destroyed by a single difficult customer.” - from a brochure describing a customer service seminar to be held in Spokane later this month

Popular name: Spokane’s Robert Andersons could form a club.

Warm-up question: If one accepts the notion that there are all these angels in our midst, would it be fair to say that they are, at best, underachievers?

Today’s Slice question: How many of your Generation X co-workers know that this is Pearl Harbor Day? , DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: Drawing

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