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The Slice: Twin pranks always rate a cut above
Renee Miesen had a problem. The Spokane hair stylist was scheduled to attend to the female members of a wedding party. And they had just arrived at her North Side salon.
But something was wrong. The bride had gotten her hair cut — drastically. This would make it all but impossible for Miesen to create the specific look the bride had requested.
Stunned, Miesen said nothing.
The young women went into another room. And the baffled stylist tried to figure out what to do.
A little bit later, the bride was back at the salon’s front door, this time with her mother. But now her hair was long again.
After several moments of deep confusion, the stylist learned that the bride has an identical twin sister — and that’s who Miesen had seen in the first group.
Cue up the laugh-track and you’ve got a sitcom episode right there.
•Election Day has come and gone: For Washington residents who long ago mailed in absentee ballots, the primary campaign culminating today must just seem like a lot of noise.
•Just wondering: Unlike its rugged lupine ancestors, does your dog show signs of evolving into a creature designed by natural selection to sleep on your bed with its own blanky?
•Four possible reasons why you fall asleep while watching TV:
1. You’re working too hard.
2. You’re not working hard enough.
3. Your accumulated 2004 sleep deficit is now right at 700 hours.
4. Those four beers you had right after coming home from work.
•You’ve got the makings of a true Inland Northwesterner: If, when you know you are going to be anywhere near a hotel, you start thinking ahead about how you can avoid getting into tipping situations.
•Another question: Has any sports fan in history ever been willing to admit that some of the rabid boosters who root for his or her favorite team are complete jerks?
•Never hurts to ask: A worn-out Tyler Boutz came home from his initial day in first grade last week and found himself thinking back fondly on the half-day schedule he’d known in kindergarten.
So he told his mom he had just one question about this whole first-grade concept.
“Can I have the hours that I had last year?”
•Saying thanks: The Slice item featuring Bill Reuter saluting his school-teacher mother prompted a note from Tom Sahlberg.
“I had a very special sixth-grade teacher at Jefferson Elementary in 1963-64 who helped me understand the death of a president and who was my surrogate dad,” wrote Sahlberg.
The two have maintained a connection for more than 40 years.
“A good teacher at school, he was also a mentor who showed me how to be a man. His name is Bill Reuter.”
•Today’s Slice question: What Spokane area family has members residing in the greatest number of countries?