The Slice: Talk about your snakes in the road

Don Kewley of Post Falls saw The Slice’s list of things people had observed other drivers doing while behind the wheel.

You know, putting on makeup, brushing their teeth, reading, et cetera.

“I was struck with the thought that watching distracted drivers was also a distraction to driving,” he said.

Spokane’s Trudi Brown made a similar point. She saw a driver who had a big snake slithering on her.

“This couldn’t possibly be very safe, and most certainly was distracting while driving,” she said. “I know it was extremely distracting to me.”

They don’t repel spiders either: “When the three of us kids were little, either my parents or my older brother convinced my way younger sister that horse chestnuts were porcupine eggs,” wrote Karen Gemmell.

“She would place them on the top of the TV (the big console kind) and wait for them to hatch.”

None did. But the kid tried several clutches before figuring out that she had been duped.

In other horse chestnut news, Slice reader Helen Hanshaw labeled them a menace. I think her point was that they can make you slip and fall. But maybe she was suggesting that if you step on them you might invite the wrath of an enraged mother porcupine.

Just wondering: How many people here have now taken pictures of Antonio Banderas with their cell phone cameras?

Conspiracy theory: Shampoo makers breed and release aphids.

Warm-up questions: How are you observing National Pork Month? Do you assume that people who do not license their pets also do not vote? Who around here has the bicycle with the highest mileage? What does a new TV show have to do to crack your viewing lineup?

Today’s Slice question: What ticket stubs did you save?