The Slice Unbridled Power Can Be A Dnagerous Thing

Charlotte Applegate, a second-grade teacher at Heyburn Elementary in St. Maries, sent us some of her students’ efforts at finishing the sentence “If I were in charge of the school, I would….”

And we wanted to share a few of these innovative proposals.

“…send the bad child to the 9th grad and make them eat brosel sprouts.” - Aubrey Simundson

“…let you have thirds (for lunch).” - Zak Jessen

“…have extder recess.” - Jenna Robinson

“tack them out for ice crime.” - Tucker Baker

Halloween revisited: It’s ancient history now. But reader David Beck’s “Cutoff Rules for Trick-or-Treating” merit consideration. Remember these next year.

1. If your voice has changed, you are too old to trick-or-treat.

2. If you are wearing a bra, you are too old to trick-or-treat.

3. If you have car keys in your pocket, you are too old to trick-ortreat.

4. If you had to shave this morning, you are too old to trick-or-treat.

So there you go.

One trick-or-treater visiting The Slice Home Compound Tuesday night was a guy who stood about 6-foot-2 and looked to be about 20. He said he was making the rounds for his nephew, who was sidelined with chicken pox. And just to show you how much faith we have in the basic decency of our fellow Spokanoids, we believed him! Hope the sick kid enjoyed his candy.

And while we’re on the subject of Halloween, we are declaring a woman whose name we don’t know the Scariest Person in Spokane.

We’re told she lives on Pratt near the top of that steep hill and that she screamed at a 3-year-old boy (his first time trick-or-treating) for ringing her doorbell too vigorously. The startled lad’s mother, waiting on the sidewalk, called out an apology. So the woman in the house shouted at her, too. “I think the whole block heard it,” said the little boy’s mom.

Today’s Slice question: If the Inland Northwest became a separate state, what would be its motto?

The reader submitting the best answer by 6 p.m. today will get to choose from several recently published collections of various comic strips appearing here in the Get a Life section.

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