There’S More Past Bozeman

Not everyone sees the world as bounded by Seattle and Montana.

Met a local woman the other day who grew up in Zimbabwe, met her husband in Canada, got married in the South Pacific and had a child in Germany. (The Slice had contacted her in response to a postcard her daughter had sent from Bolivia.)

* Technical compliance: You know how kids are always selling this or that to raise money for school projects? Well, a reader told about being visited by one such salesperson.

In addition to the items he was selling, the little boy had a sheet of paper. It listed sales-safety guidelines. One tip was “Do not sell door-to-door.”

The reader who told The Slice about this perused the list of safety steps. He mentioned that one warning to the kid on his porch.

“I don’t,” the boy said. “I skip every other house.”

* Overheard at day care: “I asked 3-year-old Cameron what color his eyes were,” wrote our source. “His reply was, `Red, just like my dad’s.’ ”

* Today’s moronic driver: Coeur d’Alene’s Florence Bertram saw a guy talking on a cellphone and typing on a laptop sail through a stop sign.

* Saying “I love you”: Julee Huggins said her husband might be the person around here who says it the most.

“He says it every time he sees me. He answers the phone with `I love you’ when I call. He will call me just to tell me he loves me a couple times a day. And, of course, he says good morning and good night with `I love you.’ He’ll send me e-mails just to say `I love you.’ He calls me on my cellphone to say `I love you.’ …It’s never too much for me.”

Amee Tilger said her 4-year-old daughter, Caroline, might hold the record. “She is constantly telling her dad, her 6-year-old sister and I that she loves us. In fact, we have a little game that we play where Caroline says `Guess what?’ And I respond `What?’ And she shouts, `I love you!’ She thinks it’s just hilarious.”

Lucy Thosath wrote: “My husband and I take care of our little 2-year-old grandson every day while his mommy works. At least three to four times a day I say `Oh, Jackson, I love you, love you, love you!’ Doesn’t that add up to nine to 12 times?”

“What a silly question,” wrote Gladys Tolliver of Kettle Falls. “Would someone who is having an affair tell you how many times an hour they get an `I love you’ call?”

On a more serious note, she said her sister Debbie in Chewelah regularly says `I love you’ to her 10 brothers and sisters.

* Today’s Slice question: What’s the surest way to tell that someone is lying about having been in combat?