If So, Do You Just Answer, ‘Yo’?

Just wondering.

How many people around here have had the same phone number at work for at least 15 years?

How an Inland Northwesterner can demonstrate nonconformity: “1. Wearing clean shoes. 2. Not wearing a ball cap. 3. Driving a car with two working headlights.” — Pamela Stark

Safety tip: Bob Glatzer was on a Southwest airliner when he heard a flight attendant say it was important for everyone to have their seatbelts securely fastened because, “We’ll be going really, really fast.”

Slice answer: Steve Mace of Medical Lake wrote that “gub-ment cheese” makes the best grilled-cheese sandwiches.

She’s headed back east: A local woman was listening to a sales pitch for a credit card when she said she would be going to Europe and wondered if the card could be used there. “Oh,” said the salesperson, “the card works nationwide.”

Put it out: If teens really wanted to seem grown-up, they’d forget about posing with cigarettes and just spend their time worrying about money.

Taking a glance at our to-do list: Call reader in Sandpoint and tell her that a dozen others said she was right. “Eee-Awk-Eee” did come from early TV episodes of “Lassie.”

That line’s busy: Eric Owens, 18, Natalie Rieckers, 18, and Elizabeth Morris, 14, were among the nominees after we asked what local teenager spends the most time on the phone.

And Donna Dean nominated her 17-year-old daughter, Martha, calling her the Queen of the Telephone. “She is able to talk on one line, accept a call from call-waiting, check her pager for incoming calls and, in her sweet little voice, ask to use the cell phone to page someone she ‘needs’ to talk to.”

Question of the week: “Tired of being slapped around by opera bullies?” — from an ad for Seattle Opera in the Seattle Weekly

Slice answer: Judy Anderson said the place she sees men wearing jeans so low they’re about to fall down is at work. “I run the scale house for a pulp transfer yard and a sand and gravel plant,” she wrote from Loon Lake. “Working with truck drivers all day, where my line of sight is about belt-buckle high, butt-crack exposure is a constant threat. My question is, do men in public realize underwear adjustment should be a private occurrence?”

Today’s Slice question: What’s the difference between networking and just using people?