The Slice: Well-placed throws lead to the east

They say there’s nothing new.

But Slice reader Gary Rust asked a question I’ve not encountered until now.

“Does everyone in Spokane experience the same movement of throw rugs that ours follow?” he wrote. “Ours always move from west to east.”

“Favorite old-movie depictions of your occupation: “Sidney Poitier in ‘To Sir, With Love,’ ” wrote educator Betty Brueske. “But I have to remember that he didn’t have the WASL to deal with.”

Becky Rains always gets a laugh out of seeing movie nurses prancing around in high heels.

Pattie Felland, who was a crusher operator at a gold mine, gets a kick out of Westerns featuring a miner covered in dirt and dragging a mule around.

And lawyer Alyssa Swartz never tires of Gregory Peck’s performance as Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

“Travel notes on Greater Cheney: “Spokane is underrated. Warm, friendly, people reading, people doing stuff outdoors, people doing family things together. Cute little downtown.” — football writer Peter King, Sports Illustrated online

“I’ll go first, then it will be your turn: I was in either fourth or fifth grade when Beth Buck, a girl I liked, made a derisive comment about the white socks I was wearing.

I haven’t worn white socks since.

“My new nominee for the STA route with the most eclectic assortment of riders: No. 64.

You have people going to visit inmates at the Geiger corrections facility and people going to the airport. It’s an interesting mix.

“Makes you wonder: Joni Kirk was leaving a doctor’s office, right behind a woman with a little girl who looked to be about 3.

Once outside, the child saw a policeman and started yelling. “It’s a cop — run, run run!”

“Her mother must have pinched her or something, because that outburst was followed by a lot of ‘Owww, owwwie, owwie!’ ” wrote Kirk.

Too much TV coupled with an active imagination? The reaction of a young fugitive? The daughter of a woman named in many outstanding warrants?

We’ll never know.

“Feedback: Slice reader Mike Storms challenged my assertion that no one around here likes onions as much as yours truly.

“My kids used to joke that, when I was making dinner, I’d cut up an onion and then figure out what to make,” he wrote.

“Warm-up question: Is there any way to make a middle-school child understand that certain attitudes and activities thought to be cool are, in fact, a blueprint for failure?

“Today’s Slice question: What movie or TV show were you watching with your parents or children when an “adult” theme surfaced and you realized the group-viewing was a mistake?