The Slice: Do you know who you call?

Someone out there must have interesting voices in her family.

I answered a wrong-number call at home. And the puzzled young woman on the line said, “Mom? Dad?”

I should have asked her if she was calling to hit us up for more money.

“Bedroom community: “I would never dream of wearing my pajamas to go shopping, which seems to be a growing trend in Spokane,” wrote Slice reader Julie Shepard. “Every time I go shopping, I see someone wearing flannel pajamas and/or their fluffy slippers.”

“Feedback: “Saturday’s column about choosing names from old westerns is actually perfect, Paul,” wrote Doug Burr in Coeur d’Alene. “All the nitwit parents would find every possible ‘modern’ spelling permutation of these names like Loucass, Fes2us, Dok, Oddra, Shyanne ….”

“Slice answer (auto behaviors/amateur psychology): “That BOOM-ba-pa-BOOM coming from any car with the windows completely rolled up, but still loud enough to hear at least four city blocks away, is a good sign of low self-esteem, if not a complete lack of a ticket on the clue bus,” wrote Cindy Anderson, a Spokane resident who sells computers for a living. “It screams ‘NOTICE ME! PLEAAAASSSSEEEE!’ “

“Keys to progress: “Several times in my 48 years of life, I have been heading out the door with my hands full of whatever I was taking out to my car,” wrote Burton Carter of Spokane Valley.

But a search for the keys brought everything to a halt.

“Only to realize that my keys were hanging from my mouth,” wrote Carter.

“Slice answer (going without speaking): “Several years ago, after hearing a recording of my voice, I didn’t talk for a least a whole day,” wrote Gloria Latham, a school dishwasher in St. John. “I still try not to think about it.”

“Worst driver’s license photo: “My first one in Idaho,” wrote Cathy Kraus of Coeur d’Alene. “The background was orangey-red. So was the sweater I was wearing over my tightly pulled-back ponytail. I am very fair, so all you saw was this white ghostly face — with no hair, ears or clothes — floating on a background. It was sort of the Wizard of Oz look.”

“Slice answer: “For me, finding out there is no milk left is not as big a deal as finding out there is only a small amount of milk left, especially late at night,” wrote Tony Kliment. “Then you have to decide if finishing it is worth the problems the next morning. Do you leave enough for your spouse’s morning coffee? Enough for one or more kids to have cereal? Or do you just say ‘Screw it’ and finish it because those cookies are too good to pass up?”

“Warm-up questions: Which comes first: a TV in the bedroom or a diminishing rate of you know what? Uttering what word generates a playful fine at your workplace? Is there an “evil twin” pet in your neighborhood that looks just like your cat or dog?

“Today’s Slice question: Who is this area’s biggest Pittsburgh Steelers fan?