The Slice You Can’t Hide At The Airport
We’ve conducted an exhaustive study and here are the findings:
It is impossible to go to Spokane International Airport without running into someone you know.
Slice answers: We heard from more than 60 readers who wincingly recall “tick shots,” once a part of life in areas prone to cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Decency sightings: Spokane’s Mike Buchanan was at a movie when two check-containing envelopes fell out of a pocket. They were bill payments he had intended to drop off in person. Not long afterward, he got a call from a woman who found them. She told him she would put stamps on the envelopes and mail them. “I offered to send her something for the postage and her trouble,” said Buchanan. She wouldn’t hear of it.
And a reader named Lisa said that after she lost a valuable ring that also had sentimental ties, someone turned it in to a parking lot attendant who then returned it to her.
No respect: An 8-year-old girl we heard about was channel surfing when she was surprised to see Washington Gov. Mike Lowry starring in a movie about a middle-aged guy who goes back to college. The girl’s mom had to explain that it was actually Rodney Dangerfield.
If you miss seeing them overhead and need a B-52 fix: You can watch 1963’s “A Gathering of Eagles,” tonight on the Disney Channel. It’s a ridiculous movie. But it shows off the big planes that used to call Spokane home.
Notable band names: Goo Goo Dolls, Headless Barbies, The Mommyheads, Church of Betty, Lionfish, The Martinis, Grey Madder, Thin Lizard Dawn, Audible Thangs, Interesting Guys, Falafel Mafia, Dimsum Clipjob, Hammerbrain, Lift Your Skirt Lori, Haunted Lobsters, and Automatic Zoe. - from club listings in New York’s Village Voice
If they were in charge at their schools: Fifth-grader Jessica Specht would get more books for the library and acquire an airplane so students could take field trips all over the world. And Jesi Wiecks, 12, would replace the classroom experience with virtual reality.
Today’s Slice question: What issue do you wish was on the ballot? , DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: Drawing
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