The Slice: Many will opt for wait and C) approach

If you discovered a bountiful huckleberry patch and a big grizzly showed up and wanted to horn in on your action, what would you say to the bear?

A) Be my guest. B) Scram. C) Other.

Let’s move on.

•Slice answer (who appreciates this area more – lifers or transplants?): Mike Davidson suggested that there should be a third category – returnees.

That describes him. And he believes that living here, leaving and then coming back gives someone a special perspective.

•Movie-name contest: Lynn Harrison lives in Coeur d’Alene but her boyfriend’s home is in north Spokane. Her driving experiences inspired her idea for the name of a locally flavored seasonal film: “Endless Summer Road Construction.”

Another reader suggested “Beach Blanket Buffet.”

•Packing peanuts: The occasion was a birthday party for Marlys Buzby’s then 11-year-old daughter. The scene was one of those establishments that cater to kids in Coeur d’Alene.

“We were in a separate party room as Maura was opening her gifts,” wrote Buzby.

Those ultra-light polystyrene bits were getting everywhere. A little girl picked one up and studied it. She wondered aloud what exactly they were.

Another girl at the party held one in her hand and, adopting a professorial tone, declared, “This is a packing penis.”

“Immediately, all the little girls were in hysterics, some laughing so hard they were falling out of their chairs,” said Buzby.

Meanwhile, the kid whose malapropism created the commotion loudly and futilely insisted that she had said “peanut.”

•West Side kids have a different vocabulary: Darla DeCristoforo’s young granddaughter Claire, who lives near Seattle, was being given a pep talk about going to a summer camp that featured experiences in the theater arts. Claire was told that she might get to be a fairy.

The child was confused. “I get to be a boat?” she asked.

No, Claire, not ferry — fairy.

•Sounds of summer: “When I was a kid, we lived a couple of miles from Disneyland in the ’60s, and we had to come home when the nightly fireworks show started at 9 p.m., which we could see from our neighborhood,” wrote Lynn Onley.

•Gold medal frustration: Sports hater Angela Roth expressed her feelings openly and honestly about the fact that TV coverage of the Olympics will preempt one of her favorite shows. “Thanks for letting me vent,” she concluded. “I know you can’t print the profanity.”

•Today’s Slice question: Who has the Inland Northwest’s most ridiculous comb-over?