The Slice To Join Today’s Random Sample, Get Your Act Of Kindness Together
Today is National Random Acts of Kindness Day. But it’s still a bad idea to accept candy from strangers.
Customer for life: “On the Saturday before the recent floods, I bought a pair of dress slacks (which needed to be tailored) at Ken Vogel Clothing in downtown Pullman,” wrote Doug Nelson. “Ken promised they would be ready by Thursday, which turned out to be the day after the floods hit and left his store inundated with water. On Saturday, after he had cleaned up the worst, I went in and jokingly asked if my pants were done. Sure enough, Ken brought them from the back room, tailored and ready to wear.”
Other businesses getting a thumbsup from readers include Beyond Mail and the downtown Firestone.
Country song waiting to be written: “I Gotta Get My Ash to Work But it Will be as Sweet as Maple Coming Home to You.” - Karla Theiss
Life with pets: Colville’s Bev Mack saw that her dog, a Boston terrier named Buddy, had snatched a used bandage out of the trash. So she chased after him to get it away. When she caught up with him, the bandage was gone. She figured he must have swallowed it.
She didn’t think that would be good for him. So she force-fed Buddy some salt, in an effort to make him throw up. First one dose, then another. But nothing happened.
Mack didn’t know what to do next. “He walked away and soon appeared from who knows where with the bandage thought swallowed,” she wrote.
But now he was pretty thirsty.
Slice answers: Chuck E. Cheese’s got the most votes after we asked readers to name the Spokane area’s noisiest restaurant. No surprise there. A guy we know has described that place as “Las Vegas for kids.”
Among other eateries mentioned multiple times were Cyrus O’Leary’s, Wolffy’s, Red Robin, The Onion, The Old Spaghetti Factory, Luna and the Pepper Dine.
By the way, we think a little noise (energy) is a good thing.
And in another matter, Mary McDonnell wrote “You can tell a church usher has become drunk with power when he tells the pastor where to stand.”
Today’s Slice question: What would be the perfect password, if you had to know a secret term to gain admittance to the Inland Northwest?
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