He’S Bent Over Lost Card
Jim Christensen was driving home on Interstate 90 at night when he decided to wash his windshield.
As the recessed wipers appeared, he noticed that someone had stuck a business card beneath one blade.
“On the third pass, the card broke free and whooshed off into the night,” said Christensen.
When he got home, he looked at his car and noticed that someone had smashed a rear fender.
“I’m grateful to the honest person who was responsible enough to leave a business card,” he said.
He just wishes that individual had put it somewhere else.
* What’s wrong with this picture: A young man working the drive-through window at a fast-food place on North Division must also have been involved in food preparation, because he had on rubber surgical gloves. But the image of cleanliness took a bit of a hit as he handled money, still wearing the same gloves.
* Slice answers: Lori Trowbridge said office partner Linda Powell has the best any-situation survival-kit purse. “I am afraid to get into that thing because I think it may be bottomless,” she wrote.
Kim Turner’s co-workers at The Print Shop in Coeur d’Alene said she has the most impressive purse.
And Stacey Schneider said her mother, Dorothy Streeter, carries a purse that weighs more than 20 pounds and qualifies as a survival kit.
“A few years ago, she and I were taking the bus from Cheney to Spokane,” wrote Schneider. “A child became ill and threw up. My mom to rescue! She had everything from baby-wipes to Diet Pepsi.
“One of the onlooking passengers, seeing that my mom was prepared for every possible situation, asked, `Do you have a TV in there?’ “
* Rinse cycle: “I think all of us have done the tissue in the pocket thing,” wrote Bobbie Thoms. “But I was wondering what was the most unusual thing any of the readers have accidentally washed.”
She still remembers the time her mother washed her sister’s Bible. (It had been on a bed, beneath a pile of dirty clothes.)
* Heads or heads: A reader who calls himself Ronaldo has an idea that could make the Washington quarter the most attention getting of all the state-themed coins.
He suggests putting a portrait of George Washington on the state-symbol side. “Who would ever attempt to settle a dispute without asking, `Say, that isn’t one of those Washington state quarters, is it?’ “
* Today’s Slice question: Who deserves the title, “Coupon Queen of Spokane”?