Wagon Was Really Moving, Baby
“That’s so cuuuuuute,” said a teenage girl sitting in a bus parked at the STA Plaza Monday afternoon.
Down below, on the sidewalk along Riverside, two shelties pulled a small Oregon Trail-style covered wagon. The hitched team of miniature collies were with a woman walking east.
It looked more like a modest circus act than a bus station scene.
One of the girl’s companions disagreed with her assessment. “It’s pointless,” she said disdainfully.
A few moments passed. Then a third girl offered a theory about the red wagon with a white top. “Maybe there’s a baby in there and they’re pulling it,” she said.
They all thought that would be really cool. But by then, the little dogs and the possible wagon baby were out of sight.
* Feedback: “Your reference to that `Nothing makes another driver angrier than an obscene gesture’ (from the AAA newsletter) leads me to share my way of responding,” wrote Stephanie Cota.
She blows a kiss to the gesturing driver.
* Failure to communicate: Two male co-workers were walking in downtown Tuesday morning. They weren’t together.
One, noticing that the other had on shorts, yelled “Nice legs!”
Nearby, a woman in a short skirt got the wrong idea. She was not pleased.
* Summer preview: Hey, kids! Now that The Slice accepts e-mail, we can cut out the middleman (parents) and accept letters directly from camp.
* Family Phrases Department: In Barbara Jannot’s family, a kitchen whisk is known as a “goinker.”
In Jean Rudolph’s family, they call river rapids “bunnies.”
An attempt by Audrey Broderick’s grandson to imitate a TV commercial using the word “constipated” led to the practice of saying “car-paited.”
And Sprague’s Virginia Hill shared this. “When my four sons were small, they brought over a friend. When they introduced him to me, he told me, `My dad a PA-DEET-MAN.’ “
Hill’s sons explained that the boy meant “policeman.”
“To this day, we always say that when we see a cop along the road.”
* Country seen: Kristy Bennett looked out her kitchen window and saw a huge Great Pyrenees dog walking down the road. It was closely followed by two pygmy goats. A smaller Great Pyrenees brought up the rear. Said Bennett, “They were all in a straight line and definitely looked like they were on a mission.”
* Today’s Slice question: What’s the difference between the Spokane definition of casual attire and the North Idaho definition?