The Slice: Overheated? We don’t want to hear about it

Regular readers of this column know that I am a firm believer in the individual’s right to decide for himself/herself just what constitutes nice weather.

Despite widespread behavior that might suggest otherwise, there is no Spokane ordinance requiring you to be all gaga about sizzling and sunny conditions. To each his own.

But I must say, I think there are people in our midst who have at least temporarily surrendered their right to grouse when it gets too hot. And, of course, it will. At some point.

OK, it was a long winter and it has been an iffy spring. That has been noted a time or two.

But the way I see it, some of our neighbors’ ceaseless pleading for warm weather disqualifies them from credibly complaining when it gets to be 97 degrees.

We all know the expression “Be careful what you wish for,” but some of us pay no mind.

“Just wondering: What do you wish you could have annulled?

“Bike to Work Week: Several people in cars yelled encouragement to me this week. I tried to reply. But I don’t know if they heard me. So I thought I would reconstruct a few of those exchanges here. Perhaps those strangers will see this.

Woman in a white minivan about to pull onto 37th: “Good job going up the hill! Something something something.”

Me: “Thanks, but there was some walking involved.”

Guy in an SUV on Grand Wednesday morning: “Don’t you know enough to come in out of the rain?”

Me: “Something something something.”

Passenger in a pickup downtown Tuesday afternoon: “Hey, the old shillelagh!” (Well, that’s what it sounded like.)

Me: “Huh? What?”

“Saturday quiz: A couple of readers complained last weekend that recent locally-flavored quiz questions had been too easy. So I’m pledging to rectify that today.

Identify “Missing” Link Gaetz.

As usual, one reader submitting the correct answer will receive a coveted reporter’s notebook.

“Slice answer: In the matter of whether marriages ever last if they start off with the couple obsessing about a three-ring wedding/reception, North Idaho’s Bruce Werner wrote, “Not if their honeymoon destination involves Disneyland.”

“Your results may vary: But surveying conducted by Paul Delaney and his daughter Danette suggests that 40 percent of people hate mushrooms while 60 percent either tolerate or actively like them.

“Today’s Slice question: If your current workplace held a reunion in 10 years, do you think you would be likely to attend? Assuming you are still alive.