An Exchange Student From Idaho, Maybe?
A reader named Judith who just moved from Pullman to Moscow had the following exchange with a 6-year-old neighbor girl.
Judith: “Where’s your dad?”
Little girl: “At Bob’s.”
Judith: “Where’s your mom?”
Little girl: “At school.”
Judith: “What’s she studying?”
Little girl: “English.”
Judith: “Oh. Where is she from?”
Little girl: “Idaho.”
Overheard at SFCC (female student whining to a boy): “You never cell-phone me anymore.”
True fact: Even some coffee lovers find espresso snobs insufferable.
The good old days: Remember getting goosebumps from watching Secretariat run? And remember when you could get a drive-through drink smaller than 64 ounces?
Slice answer: “I think my ballcap is really unique because I can find the front of my head.” Harry Lenhard, Wallace.
The “Vacancy” sign is on: In recognition of next week being National Tourism Week, here are six suggestions for encouraging out-of-state relatives the ones you like anyway to come for a visit.
1. Make Glacier National Park sound closer than it is.
2. Don’t say that you’re hoping they will pump up the local economy while they are here.
3. The magic words: “Class A baseball.”
4. “Uncle Brad is Hoopfest’s sorest loser. You guys really ought to come and see him go off.”
5. Remain calm when you hear, “But the Northwest is so rainy.”
6. Say, “We’ve got some crazy little women here.”
Converts: Swell Paper auto editor Fred King had a bright yellow New Beetle parked in his driveway the other day. The doorbell rang and his wife Sue opened the door to find two Jehovah’s Witnesses.
They talked with Sue for 15 minutes about the car.
Impressive callouses: Steve Zender, a wildlife biologist in Chewelah, Wash., doesn’t enjoy flying. But part of his job involves doing animal counts from a helicopter. “He has to look out but he hangs on pretty tight,” said a friend of his.
And Lisa Kaley said her daughter Rheanna and the other first-graders at Chattaroy Elementary School might have the most amazing callouses.
They’re from all that time spent on the monkey bars.
Today’s Slice question: What’s one obsession you wish Spokane had?