The Slice It’s Nice To Know Kind Acts Aren’t As Rare As Imagined
Every day, we hear stories like this.
Patsy Pinch was at the counter at a Spokane pizza place when she realized she didn’t have enough money to pay for her order.
A stranger overheard and reached for his wallet.
Today is National Rib Check Day: Give up? OK, we’ll tell. It’s an observance designed to remind pet owners that it’s bad, bad, bad for dogs to be seriously overweight.
Slice answers: Among the movies and books combat veterans mentioned as coming close to conveying what it’s like to be under fire were the films “The Boys in Company C,” “Catch 22,” “High Noon,” “All Quiet on the Western Front,” that one Vietnam sequence in “Forrest Gump” and a book called “About Face.”
Regarding people’s policies on going back to places where they used to work, Barney Kinnick wrote: “If you no longer work there, you had a reason for leaving which is more important than the reason for going back to visit.”
On another subject, Mary McDonnell wrote: “If there were a new variety of apple named after my family, its distinctive feature would be a very thick skin.”
Pullman’s Sarah Haug turned her back on her 2-year-old son for two seconds and he took the opportunity to climb a 10-foot ladder.
And in the matter of naming pets, a reader in Hayden Lake reported that she had a cat called Mrs. Putnam, named after a minor character on “General Hospital.”
The Jesbergers of Coeur d’Alene have a cat named Pugsley, after the “Addams Family” character.
Oops: A friend whose husband is a revenue agent told us about a wrong number message left on her sons’ phone. The genius leaving the message made a job offer, stipulating that the intended recipient of the call be willing to take payment under the table. Our friend called him back and reminded him about certain laws.
Warm-up question: What percentage of Spokane area in-ground sprinkler systems are in league with Satan?
Today’s Slice question: If every sun worshipper around here packed up and moved to Southern California, how many people would be left?
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