Forgotten Kleenex A Ticking Time Bomb
Avert disaster.
Before doing your next load of laundry — stop! Check all pockets. Make sure there isn’t a wadded-up tissue waiting to explode in the water.
* Fab four: 1. Children selling Camp Fire candy should stamp your hand so you can show the next saleskid.
2. Carlos Alden’s KPBX-FM show is called the “Nacho Celtic Hour,” not the “Not So Celtic Hour.”
3. Crazy Horse deserves better than to have JC Penney name a line of casual business attire after him.
4. Maybe tickets for the Britney Spears show at The Gorge are on sale already because promoters fear 10-year-old girls will have moved on to something else by this summer.
* Slice answers: Jeri Hershberger said if that one TV show had been set here, it would have been called “Who Wants to Marry an Ex-Lilac Queen?”
Jennifer Wise suggested “Who Wants to Marry a Member of the Spokane City Council?”
Another reader offered “Who Wants to Marry a Sex Offender?”
The North Side’s Bill Martin answered the question about responding to a knock on the door in the middle of the night. “I always answer the door with a gun,” he said. “I have it behind my back.”
Which isn’t to suggest he wouldn’t help someone needing assistance.
Stevens County’s Jeannie Maki would grab the shotgun, try to call off the dogs and ask if the person needed her to call for help.
Betty Johnson, Roger Tanquist and Molly Cutting are among those familiar with the practice of referring to an iron skillet as a “spider.”
Phil Duval said it drives him mad when he’s on the phone and his wife of 40 years tells him things to say to the person on the other end.
Barb Kirwin said drivers who prefer standard transmissions tend to be Emerson Fittipaldi wanna-bes. Marjorie Hernandez said they tend to be coordinated. And Jean Booth said they tend to be fast drivers who are easily bored.
If he could be someone else for a day, Dan Merrill would be his wife. “Simply because I don’t understand what makes her tick,” he wrote. “Answers! I need answers!”
* Workplace Pets Department: Next time you’re in Deer Park Hardware and Building Supply, say hello to Lumberjack, a gray cat who keeps an eye on the inventory.
And if you’re ever in Right Direction Hair Co. on the North Side, look for Cub, a smart dog who is the loyal companion of a hearing-impaired salon employee.
* Today’s Slice question: When Spokane-area residents searching for organizational leadership suggest they need to find someone familiar with the West’s values and culture, what are they really saying?