Donation Was Right On Target
Five employees at the Target store in the Spokane Valley helped a guy named Mike load his numerous purchases into his vehicle.
All he had for a tip was a $5 bill, which he forced one of them to take.
As he was about to drive away, Mike saw that young man put it in a Salvation Army bucket.
Temporary quarters: As their car pulled into a big parking garage, a 3-year-old Spokane boy named Quinn asked his mom where they were going. “We’re going to see Santa,” she explained.
Quinn looked around. Then he had another question. “Why does Santa have to live in this dungeon?”
Slice salute: “Here I was, sitting in my office, when a gentleman walked in looking for the owner of a black Honda sedan,” wrote Robin Fontaine.
The man reported that he had hit that car, which was parked outside a South Hill office building. He left a business card.
“I also watched him put a card on the car’s windshield as he left the parking lot,” added Fontaine. “It certainly would have been easier for him to just drive off in his sport ute. Thanks, Kevin Gerber, for taking the time to do the right thing.”
Great moments in customer service, No. 297: The scene was a Mexican restaurant in Spokane.
It was a few minutes before 1 o’clock on a recent Saturday afternoon. A young waitress was taking a couple’s order.
The guy asked for a beer with his lunch. The woman wanted a margarita with hers.
“Startin’ early, huh,” the waitress said with a slightly scolding tone.
Sometimes it’s easy to tell that a kid grew up in the Northwest: A Spokane Valley family had been watching a TV show featuring a witch who lived with a cat named Salem.
The mom asked her 12-year-daughter if she knew why the feline might have been named that. “Because they live in Oregon,” the girl answered.
A reader named Mary wants to know: “How many people really read the Christmas cards they are sent?”
She was prompted to ask after seeing someone who works with her hsuband take a card out of an envelope and quickly deposit it in the trash. “I know he could not have had time read anything other than, maybe, the signature,” said Mary.
Slice reader of the day: Speech pathologist and all-around good person Angela Hubbard.
Today’s Slice question: What line from a holiday story or movie gets repeated at your house?
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MEMO: The Slice appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Write The Slice at P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; fax (509) 459-5098. A reader named Rachel wonders what mail carriers really like to receive as gifts from the people on their routes.