The Slice: Some ask but do not receive

So I was out in the car last weekend and came upon some firefighters collecting donations for charity at a traffic light.

In exchange for my modest contribution, one of them handed me a red sticker.

A few minutes later, while pulling up to another stop light, I saw some people standing by the road up ahead. So I got out the sticker and placed it on the dashboard.

But when I pulled closer to the light, I realized that this time the folks up ahead were panhandlers.

And you don’t need a sticker to ignore them.

“Slice answer: In the matter of objects preschoolers got stuck on various parts of their bodies, Donnalee Herrington had a story I hadn’t heard before.

Fifty years ago, her 2-year-old son Patric found a spent .22-caliber bullet casing outdoors. Soon he had jammed it firmly onto a front tooth.

Herrington called the Fire Department. (This was before 911.) They couldn’t get it off.

Her husband came home from work. He, too, had no luck.

Her brother-in-law also tried. Same result.

So they took Patric to St. Luke’s Hospital, and the staff there finally extracted the shell — without damaging the baby tooth.

“Expect the unexpected in Spokane: A car waiting on a traffic light downtown at midday pumped out high-decibel music. But it wasn’t hip-hop. It was Rosemary Clooney’s “Mambo Italiano.”

“Yuck: “It really has rained too much when you are petting your dog and find a slug stuck in her fur.” — Tamara Barron, Spokane Valley

“What makes you think you are smarter than most people around here: “Simple,” wrote Mitch Kemple. “When discussing roadways, I do not refer to the median as the ‘medium.’ “

Jack Thompson cited the letters to the editor appearing in the S-R and other local publications.

“Slice answers: Dozens of mothers reported having given birth on their due dates. But Jane Kennedy, Teresa Seely, Linda Moberg and Lois Bremner did it twice.

Sherry Sanden said that both she and her son arrived on their due dates. “Neither of us have been on time for anything since.”

“And Sue Plummer said she had a better question: Who has actually had a house built and finished within a week of the projected completion date?

“Warm-up questions: Is selecting baby names especially challenging for teachers (because so many monikers have baggage)? How long have you been nagging a family member about the need to look into having a certain medical procedure?

“Today’s Slice question: Do you trust your tap water?