Try Not To Tee-Off Your Boss

Here’s how to improve the productivity of the Spokane area’s workforce during summer.

Schedule more early afternoon tee times.

We’ve seen it. People go in early and attack their tasks like buzzsaws.

Thirtysomething woman overheard outside Nordstrom at 6:55 a.m. Friday, just before the doors opened on the first day of a sale: “Shoes, what else.”

New species: Don McCoy woke up with a bad case of what he termed “pillow hair.”

His 6-year-old daughter, Colleen, saw him and giggled. “Daddy, you look just like a slosher bear.”

McCoy and his wife finally figured it out. She meant sloth bear.

It could have been worse. Colleen used to say her dad reminded her of the warthog in “The Lion King.”

Firing back: “When a `Spokane is Loserville’ sign adorns a 1981 Chevy Citation we must surely consider the source.” - Ed Sawatzki

Scott Miller’s response to those bumper stickers is “That explains why you’re here.”

When Jim Lee sees one, he thinks “Get a life, then get out of town.”

Not so fast there: As a result of some brilliant cash management, we found ourselves with one dollar in our wallet recently. And we were walking in the west end of downtown and saw a guy up ahead who seemed a good bet to be a panhandler. He was. So we took out and opened the wallet to illustrate our response, “This is all I’ve got on me.”

But he was pretty wasted and must not have gotten the message, because he started to reach for the dollar.

The readers have spoken: And most want us to give it a rest re: our soreheaded whining about sprinklers that force you off sidewalks. It must be that nobody else has ever been ambushed and made to look incontinent by one of those automatic in-the-ground jobs.

Today’s Slice question: What is something that’s a social taboo elsewhere but not in Spokane?