You (Kick) Will (Shove) Like Me!

Here’s further evidence that romance can be painful.

“Apparently on the playground of Jefferson Elementary School, love isn’t in Valentines, it is in the shins,” wrote a friend on the South Hill.

She saw a little blond girl grab a boy by the coat and shove him up against a tree. The little girl asked the boy, several times, “Do you like me?”

Then the girl kicked him, hard. After that she continued her questioning, yelling this time. “Well, do you? DO YOU LIKE ME?”

Then came more kicks.

“The boy was easily a foot taller than the girl,” our friend wrote. “He just stood there and took it, real cool like. He never did answer the question.”

Here’s a Friday the 13th tradition we’d like to see: People in service jobs get to smack rude customers.

Little boy overheard at the downtown Rockwood Clinic: “I haven’t had enough candy today.”

Maureen Shogan’s personal motto has a connection to her birthday: “March 4th (forth) onto bigger and better things.”

Slice answer: “I have never heard anyone (including me) say Core d’Alene or Curr d’Alene,” wrote Sanford Gerber. “However, I lived here for a year before I figured out that Korda Lane is not a street in Spokane. Is there a reason that we are required to mispronounce Coeur d’Alene? TV and radio newscasters always say Korda Lane.”

Just wondering: Do you conduct a little ceremony to note the occasion when switching to a new cereal?

Tatonka: Do the popping and squeaking sounds coming from your wood floors when you walk through the house sometimes make you think the buffalo have returned to the West and they are in your living room?

Sondra Woods’ motto: “Everybody’s got to be something.”

Suggested pet name for a rotund dog or cat: The Portly Mr. Mathers.

Layout critique: Debbie Cole wonders why stores that sell stuff for babies and toddlers make it so difficult for parents to maneuver strollers through the aisles.

Warm-up question: What would a psychologist specializing in pizza-based analysis conclude about your family after examining the this-half/that-half toppings selections?

Today’s Slice question: What would it take for someone in Spokane to wind up on the cover of the National Enquirer?

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