The Slice If You Can’t Hear Me, Press ‘1’
Every week, Spokane’s Ulla Przewolka gets at least a couple of wrong-number calls from people trying to reach a local business.
And though she tries to explain to the folks on the phone that they have misdialed, it’s not always easy to get through to them. But that’s understandable. The callers are trying to reach a hearing-aid dealer.
Buzz off: Lisa Taruscio was visiting a grade school in Post Falls when she noticed a bee persistently circling this one little girl. The kid put up with the uninvited attention fairly well for a while. But finally she exclaimed “You stupid bee, I’m not a flower!”
Nobody asked us: But we’re tired of the Three Tenors, people who thought we were putting down the community colleges, baseball caps worn backward, overuse of “alternative” and people telling us we’re wrong to have a crush on this one friendly/efficient counter clerk with a knockout smile at the downtown Spokane post office.
From Swing magazine’s list of “100 Things You Have to Do Before You Turn 30”: 5. Buy a real bed. 25. Know the difference between Manet and Monet. 29. Dance on a bar. 46. Forgive your parents. 78. Stop calling former lovers and hanging up. 84. Know when to keep your mouth shut.
Life as we know it: Domini’s hasn’t abandoned its famous striped popcorn bags. The plain white ones were just a temporary thing.
No-fault candy: Doug and Diana Taylor faced a tight schedule. They didn’t have much time to pick up the family cat, Bagheera, at the vet’s office and still be ready for their daughter’s birthday party. So Doug went alone to get the cat. And when it seemed he might be late, Diana started calling the vet’s. In all, she called three times - finally requesting her husband be told to return home, with or without the cat.
A couple of days later, the Taylors received a gift basket of chocolates from the staff at Dr. John Freeman’s office, with an apology for making Doug wait. Wrote Diana: “Seeing as how my husband never let anyone know about our time constraints (must be a guy thing), I was touched by their willingness to assume responsibility for something that clearly was no fault of theirs.”
(Bagheera’s doing much better.)
Today’s Slice question: What percentage of this area’s residents would really rather pretend that poor and broken people do not exist?
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