Crows Like Their Mole With Tartar

There’s a nest of crows in a pine near Norma Kinney’s yard, and she has informally kept an inventory of what they seem to be eating.

Here it is: robins, small unidentifiable rodents, a mole, hamburger buns (from a nearby fast-food place) and tartar sauce (the crows left the container).

Regarding the condiment, Kinney wrote “Was wondering if they felt the mole needed a bit of added flavor?”

* Revealing our bias: We tend to like people who talk about maybe moving to Portland better than those who say they might relocate to Seattle.

* If you got married in 1942: Call The Slice for details about obtaining a commemorative crystal bell from the Heinz 57 folks. It’s free.

* Here are a dozen lesser forms of aggression: See how many you witnessed this week.

1. Pouting during meetings.

2. Refusing to scoot over and make sharing the seat possible when the bus is crowded.

3. Serial interrupting.

4. Talking about oneself so much others in the room start to black out.

5. Staring at secondary sexual characteristics.

6. Yelling at the TV screen when a newscaster says “basically” for the sixth time in one 45-second report.

7. Contributing to the breakdown of line integrity at a service counter.

8. Frowning at stuff at a yard sale.

9. Chewing ice in a crowded office.

10. Acting as if sharing space on a busy sidewalk is a foreign concept.

11. Bullying shopping-cart moves.

12. Standing on the heels of a person using a pay phone.

* Just wondering: Is there a chair in your home that people and pets immediately vacate when a certain person enters the room?

* Attention birds: You did, you did see a puddy cat. Sarah Wasicek’s cat, Bookaboom, likes to hang out up in her big linden tree.

* Together again: After her dad got transferred from a base in Germany to one in Oklahoma, Joy Whitlock lost track of her sixth-grade best friend, April.

But Whitlock, now an adult, recently reconnected with her old pal, thanks to a Web site for former military brats. “My husband just got assigned to a base only a short drive from where April lives, so we’ll finally get to see each other again,” she wrote. “I can’t wait.”

* Warm-up question: If Wallace celebrated “Lana Turner Days,” what would be the key events?

* Today’s Slice question: If grandparents unionized and engaged in some hard-nosed bargaining, how long would it be before they could dictate the terms of American life?