The Slice Keep Lima And Beans Separated

April Munyon teaches first grade at Spokane’s Regal Elementary.

So she hears plenty of intriguing observations on life.

Here’s a recent example. A little girl in her class named Amanda reported that she had eaten lima beans the night before.

Munyon made a face and volunteered that those weren’t on her own list of favorites.

“Well, I liked the bean,” said Amanda. “But not the lima.”

The case for Velcro: Right-handed parents who have to teach left-handed children how to tie their shoes deserve a pat on the back, said Darlene Ponack of Hope, Idaho. But she added that the kids involved in this challenging learning experience deserve a medal.

There was another use for those state sales tax tokens: Larry Bolks recalled that if you put them in just the right place, they stopped car springs from squeaking. “It worked very well on my 1934 Ford,” he wrote.

Davids density: “My husband’s grandfather was named David, his father was named David, his name is David and we named our first son David,” wrote Colville’s Debi Smith. “All three of our children have mentioned that they plan to name one of their boys David. To top this off, my aunt has a son named David and her two daughters both married Davids.”

In the matter of whether coffee drinking can be considered a hobby: “Hobby?” wrote Lisa Cleveland. “Isn’t coffee one of the four basic food groups?”

And Doug Kropff said that, in the Northwest at least, coffee drinking is no mere pastime. “It has risen to an art form.”

The right way to do it: Robbin Paeper and her husband were seated near a restaurant’s self-serve bakery.

They saw a boy who might have been 5 pick up a cookie with his hand and place it on his plate. His sister, about 7, saw this. She told him he was supposed to use the serving tongs.

So the little boy put his cookie back with the other ones. Then he picked up the server and chose the same cookie, placing it once again on his plate. “His sister was happy with that and they left,” wrote Paeper.

Warm-up questions: Can a guy think about his sideburns all the time and still contribute to society? In an unarmed fight, what area cop could single-handedly overwhelm the most pencil-necked bad guys?

Today’s Slice question: If “Colfax” and “Mullan” were verbs, what would they mean?

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