The Slice: Turning to Judge Judy might help

I’ve identified an area of potential job growth.

Based on recent experiences, I have a hunch that every place from tire stores to medical offices will soon need to hire a waiting-room referee. At least if there is a TV and customers/patients are free to change the channel to a news program with a not-so-subtle point of view.

Or maybe we should just have separate waiting rooms for those of opposite political stripes. Or better yet, no TV.

Slice answer: Lan Hellie said a bunch of jalopies in the yard is a sign of a life well-lived.

Fit to be tied: Real estate professional Patrick Kenney figures he wore a necktie every working day for better than 50 years.

Slice answer: Spokane Valley’s Gary W. Smith said “about 80 percent of habitual contributors” to the S-R’s letters to the editor are so consistently wrong as to be excellent reverse barometers of what to think or do.

Assessing your role in life: How often do you point out that someone else left a stove burner on? How frequently do you note that there’s a better parking place over there?

Slice answer: In the matter of who around here attends the most plays and concerts, et cetera, singer Susan Windham had an answer. “Keith and Gina Stracchino,” she said. “They are the elegant couple in the front row of all arts events. When I’m doing a show and I look out and see them I know it’s official.”

Warm-up questions: Ever had a cell phone go through a wash cycle? What local public figure seems least distinguishable from a cardboard cutout? Ever had to drink magnesium citrate? What is the dumbest reason you have heard for refusing to return Census forms?

Today’s Slice question: Do young people ever get tired of older people assuming that they know everything about computers and can fix any problem?