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Ritzville’s Shelly Eash went away for the weekend and left her 6-year-old twin boys with a relative.
When she got back, Eash learned that they had misbehaved. So she asked the boys what she should do in response to their transgressions.
One of them suggested that three or four days of being grounded ought to do the trick.
And then the other one piped up and said it would take at least 10 days of grounding to straighten them out.
Stunning honesty or history’s worst plea-bargain? You make the call.
Spokane’s most heavily armed neighborhood: Diann Hiatt says she is pretty sure it’s West Central.
If the South Hill’s Bonnie Moffatt moved away from the Inland Northwest: Local people wouldn’t get to enjoy the seasonal arrangements she puts in her picture window. She has been living in the same house on 29th for 50 years.
Blaming a vegetable: A North Idaho couple told us about the time their son came home from a Boy Scout meeting sick to his stomach. “It was that squash you made me eat,” he complained to his parents.
Eventually it was learned that the lad had been experimenting with chewing tobacco.
Sherri Hyams’ blind date: It was her first date, back in high school.
A neighbor asked her if she would like to go out with the captain of the football team. She didn’t know the young man in question, but she eagerly agreed to go on the date.
She met him after a game. “He was kind of scrawny, had bright red hair and freckles,” Hyams recalled. “Howdy Doody was better looking.”
They went out for soft drinks. Then he drove to scenic spot. “When he tried to kiss me, I started crying and cried all the way home,” she wrote.
OK, if we made a movie of that, we would cast Calista Flockhart as Hyams and Carrot Top as the football star stopped for no gain.
Overheard on an STA bus (a teenage boy talking to a teenage girl): “I’m sorry I forgot your name. Been smoking too much weed.”
Maybe it was a joke: A friend was behind someone in a movie line before a screening of “The Full Monty” when she heard that person ask for a ticket to see “Monty Hall.”
Today’s Slice question: Which personality type is more annoying to be around for extended periods - someone spilling over with knowledge of pop culture trivia or someone who recognizes zero pop culture references?
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