While Waiting For Winter, We’ve Wandered Into Spring
There were signs of spring fever everywhere this past weekend.
But it didn’t seem quite right. After all, we haven’t paid our dues.
With the winter of ‘97-‘98 practically a no-show, it’s hard to get excited about the new season.
Honor system: We heard about a little boy who was afraid the Tooth Fairy would stiff him because he swallowed the tooth. But that was explained in the note placed under his pillow. And he woke up to find $2.
Million-to-one shot: Rathdrum’s George Abelhanz used to live in the Seattle area. And when he was about to retire from Boeing in 1995, he found himself training a woman to take over his job. She turned out to be the very same person his wife had trained in 1978 to take over her job at a Renton hospital.
Slice answers: Readers said Browne’s Addition and the Hamblen Elementary School area are visited by the loudest early morning joggers.
Super colossal blow-out question: Dick Bachman of Post Falls wonders if, in all of recorded history, any furniture store or mattress place has ever attempted to sell anything at the regular price.
How to get a lot of things wrong in one sentence: This is what a friend heard over the loudspeaker after his flight from Portland landed Sunday.
“On behalf of Southwest Airlines, we’d like to welcome you to Spokane, Washington, home of the Washington Cougars.”
Our friend’s comment: “Go Cougs, but where?”
Our favorite new children’s book title: “Cowboy Bunnies.”
Nachismo: We heard about a little boy named Alec whose version of the Village People song included the lyric, “Nacho, nacho, nacho … I wanna be a nacho man.”
Today’s list: 1. Why haven’t more single men figured out that about half of women in the world are at crafts sales on weekends?
2. What roadside attraction on North Division has made you say, “Yeah, right - like I’m stopping for that”?
3. Ever heard of a cat that stays in its yard?
4. Have you ever been doing yard work and had your efforts loudly critiqued by a crow?
5. Do strangers laugh at your luggage?
Today’s Slice question (for those who read in Sunday’s paper about the cable TV system in Massachusetts that has as its local-access programming a TV camera aimed at an active eagles’ nest): Where should Spokane area cable companies set up permanent cameras?
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