Road Signs Don’T Need To Be Boring
“Road Closed” and “Detour” get old after a few weeks.
We want to see road-repair signs that say “I’d Turn Back If I Were You” or “No How, No Way.”
* Agree or disagree: Those who grew up in the Inland Northwest tend to have quieter speaking voices than people who moved here as adults.
* Projecting an image: “Is it just me, or does this strike anyone else as mildly amusing?” wrote Peg Coffey.
A young male driver on Division had his car stereo cranked up to an obnoxious level. And Coffey noticed the message on his license plate frame: “If its to loud your to old.”
She was pleased to note that he was not one of her former English students.
* Overheard at the airport (woman saying goodbye to a boy who looked about 19): “Study hard … grades are important this year … but have fun.”
* Either you get this or you don’t: Marge Huntington said we forgot one the other day when listing possibilities for what might have happened to that African lion supposedly sighted on the outskirts of Spokane a few years ago.
She said it might have been tranquilized and then released in Stevens County.
“For the lion’s sake, one can only hope that your hunches are closer to the mark,” she wrote.
* Question for cashiers: What’s the most memorable two-item purchase you’ve rung up when one of the items was a package of condoms?
* Speaking of condoms: A Slice reader named Ken recently found an aluminum briefcase in his garbage can. In addition to contraceptives, it contained a bunch of drumsticks and other percussion stuff.
There’s a name on the case.
Maybe it was stolen and then discarded.
“The owner has 60 days to claim it or I’ll give the contents (minus condoms) to the local school,” wrote Ken.
Our line is open.
* Impetus for change: Accepting a new position that pays better is the No. 1 reason people quit their jobs, according to a survey noted in American Demographics magazine.
“A desire to get at least 300 miles away from letters to the editor in The Spokesman-Review” wasn’t even in the top 10.
* Warm-up question: Have you ever lied about your SAT or ACT score to impress a date?
* Today’s Slice question: What aspect of late ‘90s fashion or grooming styles will people laugh hardest about 10 years from now?