Spokane: She Loathed It Here
If you can’t say anything nice, move to Oregon.
Some friends were driving into Crater Lake National Park the other day when a park employee noticed a Gonzaga University parking pass on their car. That observant park employee turned out to be a less-than-nostalgic GU grad.
“School wasn’t too bad,” she told our friends. “But living in that town was the worst four years of my life.”
Maybe it was something she ate.
* A treasure left behind: A reader in Colfax told about moving into her house 23 years ago and discovering a wooden rocking horse.
Her children rode it for years. And now her grandchildren have saddled up. “They’ve all loved it,” she said.
* Headlines from The Onion (an online newspaper parody):
“New $5,000 Multimedia Computer System Downloads Real-Time TV Programs, Displays Them On Monitor”
“Lilith Fair Performers, Attendees Achieve Largest-Ever Synchronized Ovulation”
“ACLU Defends Nazis’ Right to Burn Down ACLU Headquarters”
“Super Monkey Collider Loses Funding”
“Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam”
“Local Cat Attempts World Record For Things Sat On”
“Crazy Man Announces Plans To Stand In Doorway, Yell At Cars”
* Faxed Slice answer: “We at Jefferson Elementary School, located on the corner of 37th and Grand, have the best messages anywhere. Events, individuals and news, as well as the occasional poetic or inspirational lines, all make their way onto our readerboard. Many thanks to our heroic custodians, who keep the message changes current no matter what the weather.”
* Surfing onto the Independent Film Channel: We didn’t catch the title. But there’s this highly watchable short movie in which the lead character gets dumped by her erratic boyfriend but then achieves fame by writing a book called “How to Heal the Hurt Through Hating.”
* Worst merge points: Readers shared their nominations, which is pretty nice when you consider that this is only about the hundredth time we’ve brought this up. Anyway, Sprague and I-90, Freya and I-90 and the Maple Street Bridge were among the leading vote-getters.
But Bruce Plewman reserved his scorn for the “stupidest” merging-lanes design at Regal and 44th.
* Warm-up question: What would it take to cause a riot on the South Hill?
* Today’s Slice question: If you got to run a free full-page ad in the Swell Paper, what would be your message?