The Slice How Many Ways Can We Rationalize ‘Just Plain Lazy?’
Kay Stoltz has noticed that Spokane is divided into two kinds of people: Those who shovel their walks after a snowfall and those who don’t.
And she wonders. What makes someone one kind of person and not the other?
We know. But before we spill it, we’d like to hear readers’ theories.
Slice answer: Attorneys Jody Hamilton and Keith Rieckers suspect that their secretary, Tara, might get asked out more than anyone else in the Inland Northwest. They once offered to pay her a dollar for every day she did not have a date if she would pay them a dollar for every day that she did. Tara assessed the odds and politely declined the offer.
Real Life, tickets on sale now: So we were walking to work early one morning and saw this guy relieving himself on the sidewalk in the west end of downtown Spokane. We must have shot him a disapproving stare. Because he proceeded to give us the “What are YOU looking at?” look.
Yeah, we were way out of line.
If you aren’t going to the WSU-UCLA game: There’s Memphis vs. Massachusetts on ESPN tonight.
More on banks and service: “Last week, after paying off a $25,000 auto loan at a local bank, my husband and I wanted to cash two $20 money orders we received for an Xmas present,” wrote a woman we will identify as Mrs. Ticked. “Guess what? We had to show proof that we had an account there before they cashed them.”
Just wondering: After his death, how come nobody ever suggested that Bing Crosby was secretly alive?
One good thing about the Super Bowl never being held in Spokane: Fewer loud corporate expense-account twits hogging the best tables at your favorite restaurant.
Warm-up questions: If you were blindfolded, could you identify your co-workers by smell? If “The Planet of the Apes” had featured a Spokane theme, what local edifice would Charlton Heston have found sticking up through the sand instead of the Statue of Liberty?
Today’s Slice question: After being recruited by local firms, what’s the No. 1 reason given by people living in other areas for turning down jobs in the Inland Northwest?
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