Is It Near Winston?
Here’s a new one.
Spokane city employee Janet Davis received a “Guest Satisfaction Survey” from a Marriott Residence Inn where she had stayed in Bethesda, Md., not long ago.
The form indicates that Davis works for the “City of Smoke Hand.”
* A local mom writing a check for gas last weekend asked her 11-year-old daughter for the date: “I don’t know the dates on weekends,” answered the girl.
* Repent: On Bloomsday Eve, the Ghost of Bloomsday Past visits cheaters from previous years and shrinks their T-shirts.
* Only in Spokane: We’re not going to get into why the outdoors editor here at the Wake Up Tower placed a self-sealing plastic bag containing live ticks on the food editor’s desk the other morning. But we wonder if perhaps Gov. Gary Locke’s security detail should have noticed the blood-suckers as he passed by that desk en route to a conference room.
Some recognition of this potential threat might have been in order.
Then again, members of the governor’s entourage probably would have wound up paraphrasing the scene at the end of “Chinatown.”
“C’mon, forget about it,” one might have said. “It’s Spokane.”
* Drive-by assistance: Luann Doughty, a senior citizen, was moving a stove down some steps. A cab driver saw this from the street. He pulled over and got out, even though he had a fare. Then he helped.
* The best laugh in St. Maries: According to Fran Reid, it belongs to Dee Johnston. “If you heard her laugh, you would laugh, too.”
* Area’s most imitated voice: Two readers said it belongs to University High math teacher Gerry Manfred.
* Think fast … uh, too late: Last Saturday this Spokane guy, a single graduate student, went into one of those places where you can rent all kinds of things. He immediately became transfixed by a stunning young woman who worked there.
She asked what he needed. He said he wanted to rent a rivet gun, whereupon he instantly smacked himself with a silent Homer Simpsonesque “D’oh!”
The young woman called over a male co-worker to handle the transaction. And the customer was left thinking he should have asked about party supplies or something.
* Reader-suggested warm-up question: What Spokane area riding-mower owner has the smallest yard?
* Today’s Slice question: How many Bloomsday participants will be on antihistamines Sunday?