The Slice Spokane Can Be A Direct Flight With A Little Creative Thinking
Here’s the trick.
Make sure your friends, relatives and business contacts live in Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver and Chicago. Then it’s possible to think of Spokane as a direct-flight city.
Young love: Julie Langenheim got a postcard with big news from her twin 9-year-old boys, who apparently enjoyed a recent trip to visit relatives. “I found a stewardest,” wrote son Mikey. “Planning a wedding next week. Hope you could make it.”
Brother Mitch had been penciled in as best man.
It’s official: Outside magazine says Spokane is in a cool location.
Well, it sounds like “Unit”: Mariners fan Pam Galloway could never understand why announcers kept referring to pitcher Randy Johnson as “The Big Eunuch.”
Say What, Part 2: When Patrick Daisley was young, he thought those inescapable Spokane TV commercials with the jingle were for some mysterious substance called “kolar oil.”
Years later, he realized it was “coal or oil.”
Phoning it in: Once Ephrata’s Margaret Wolf was in a long line at a paint and hardware store. And she realized that customers on the phone were getting better service than the people in the store. So she left her husband in line and went outside to a pay phone. The clerk took the call, gathered the items on Wolf’s list and asked when she would pick them up. She said the tall man in the red sweater, standing in line, would be happy to write a check that instant.
Wrong number: A friend was trying to call India when she dialed 911, triggering a police response.
Warm-up questions: What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever seen someone do on a mountain bike? Is it true that single men who are willing to dance at wedding receptions wind up being pursued by more women than they can handle?
Today’s Slice question: What’s the best/worst thing about the seemingly endless daylight?
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