The Slice Sixth Graders Go Gump One Better

Linda Murray’s 6th graders at Ponderosa Elementary in the Spokane Valley came up with some “Gumpisms” to complete the phrase “My life is like….”

“A test, you’re always graded on what you get right or wrong.”

“A binder with new things going in and old things coming out.”

“An unfinished book with so many mysteries leading to an unfinished ending.”

“The sun in winter, every once in a while it comes out from behind a gray cloud.”

“A seed, ready to sprout when I’m older.”

“A TV, if you don’t like what you see just change the channel.”

You can do more than just root for businesses like the Two Moon Cafe: You can go and spend money.

Slice answers: “How is my occupation portrayed on TV or in movies?” wrote barber Mary Lynn Smith. “Cowering in a corner or running down the street in a white smock with a razor in one hand while my customer (a 1930s-style gangster or an old West gunman) is being mincemeated (new verb) by a machine gun or a peacemaker. The hair business ain’t what it used to be.”

In another matter, we were told the ice-resurfacing machine at the Spokane Arena has a license plate because it occasionally has to be driven on city streets. (One caller suggested it ought to be adorned with big ads for snow tires.)

We’re told cutting down pine trees to do away with the need for needle raking is not at all uncommon on Spokane’s South Hill. “Every time I hear a chain saw I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach,” wrote one reader who decried the practice.

And regarding having stuff stolen from your work station, we heard from both ends of the spectrum. One guy said he has a visible change jar but doesn’t worry about pilfering because it never happens. But another reader, a woman who works in a Spokane insurance office, reported that anything not nailed down at her workplace gets lifted. For instance, three troll dolls adorning her cubicle were swiped.

Today’s Slice question: What memorable movie title says it all about Spokane? (Best faxed answer by noon today wins two tickets to this week’s Greek Festival & Dinner.) , DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: Drawing

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