The Slice: Tossing goodies to pooches? What a treat

I’m guessing most of us are aware that the people working in drive-through coffee huts routinely dispense treats to dogs in customers’ cars.

Sure. Happens all the time.

But I saw something the other day that was new to me.

I was in a checkout aisle at a hardware store. A woman ahead of me in line was accompanied by a great-looking dog.

And the cashier tossed the pooch a doggie treat, which the canine caught and ate with zero commotion.

I enjoyed seeing this. But since when are cashiers ready to dole out treats to passing pets?

Anyway, it occurred to me that everyone’s job satisfaction would be enhanced by the opportunity to toss treats to dogs.

Could you do that where you work?

•Investing in a brighter tomorrow: “There is something you can help me with,” wrote a reader whose name I’ll keep to myself. “I need to find a fountain that I can put pennies in and make a wish.”

When she lived in another state, she employed this tactic when she wanted difficult people in her life to move on. She didn’t wish them ill. She just wanted them out of the picture.

It worked more than once, she said. Though one guy had a heart attack after she tossed in a nickel, so she intends henceforth to stick to pennies.

“Now there is someone in my life that I would like to wish new opportunities, so I need that fountain,” she wrote.

Hmmm. One or two come to mind, but I’ll bet they have been drained for the winter.

Any ideas I can pass along to her?

•Things visitors from out of town always notice: “That Spokane has the worst roads of anywhere they’ve ever been,” wrote Anne Miller.

Several other readers echoed that sentiment.

•Christmas music: Readers evaluating The Slice’s Top 30 list suggested additions and deletions. Most of this feedback had merit, I have to admit.

I especially liked a note from Shelley Davis, questioning the omission of “O Holy Night.”

“Yeah, it’s a little hard to sing in places,” she wrote. “But still. As the kids say, it’s da bomb.”

•Speaking of Christmas music: Colbert’s Pat Williams said hearing “Vegas lounge-lizard versions of Christmas songs playing in stores” is an excellent way to get in touch with your inner Scrooge.

•If you were to memorize a book like in “Fahrenheit 451”: South Hill resident Jim Allen might pick “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole.

•Today’s Slice question: Ever witnessed a little kid in a grocery store getting all excited because the date on the milk is Dec. 25?