The Slice He Sized Her Up Incorrectly

This happened about 30 years ago, but Marie Perez hasn’t forgotten it.

The Libby, Mont., woman lived in Nebraska at the time. And she was working behind a store’s bra counter.

A guy came in and held up his fist. He said he wanted a bra for his wife. He assured Perez that a garment fitting snugly over his fist would be just the right size.

So she got out some brassieres and they found one that pretty much fit the man’s clenched hand.

A few day’s later, that guy’s wife came in to return the garment.

“His fist was a 34 B,” Perez recalled. “But she needed a 38 C.”

Shorter days, strange sights:

We were out early one recent morning and saw something we can’t recall having witnessed before.

The sun hadn’t come up. But a guy was out in front of his house picking at weeds and generally inspecting the state of his lawn. In the dark.

Get the picture: “My daughter’s family had just purchased a new TV set,” wrote Jeff Brown. “Her 7-year-old, Karl, was overseeing the installation when he made a remarkable, new, high-tech discovery. With wide eyes, he carefully explained to his mother and younger sister that their new TV had a strange button on it.”

Karl had found the On/Off switch.

Just imagine. The set could be turned on and off without a remote.

What will they think of next?

No argument: A lot of you think you are smarter than everyone working in the Spokane news media.

And some of you are right.

Carrie Webbenhurst wonders: If the Riverfront Park marmots went on strike, what would be their demands? What would their picket signs say?

Slice answers: In the matter of who would come out on top in a local Olympics pitting doctors against lawyers, the most popular answer was some version of “The doctors would win, but the lawyers would appeal.”

Lucille Anderson said a team of area dentists could whip them both.

And another reader wants to see Spokane’s morning drive-time radio deejays compete in a tag-team no-holds-barred wrestling tournament.

Weirdest planet: Noting that a local TV station had replaced one of the “Star Trek” series with “Maury Povich,” Matthew Monroe suggested this was just a matter of substituting one set of aliens with another.

Today’s Slice question: Other than espresso stands on every bus, what innovative steps could STA take to dramatically increase ridership?

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