The Slice: Case of the dropsies? There’s not an app for that

Margy Waddell has dropped one cell phone in the toilet and accidentally put two others in the washing machine.

All were rendered unusable.

So when the iPhone came out, her husband deemed it a too-risky investment.

No. 1 song on the day you were born: Check out www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1.

More sneezers: Billy Hultquist has a co-worker named Jeremiah whose sneezing could be characterized as robust.

“When he sneezes we can’t tell if he is angry and yelling at us furiously, or just wanting attention and ‘bless you’s.’ Sometimes, after he sneezes, I get that muffled feeling in my ears as if I just spent hours at a Metallica concert.”

Someone near and dear to Karen Botker has been known to embellish sneezes with a jowl-shake at the end. “Kind of like when people would make fun of Nixon speaking.”

And a South Hill reader I’ll simply identify as Bob told about a recent occasion when one of his wife’s full-gusto sneezes set off a “glass break” sensor in their home’s alarm system.

Colonoscopy prep: “I had to drink magnesium citrate and never – I repeat, NEVER – again,” wrote Leilani Batters.

In the matter of what to say about pets buried in the backyard when selling or buying a house: Air Force retiree David Saiz proposed a policy: “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Ten pounds of Slice answers for a 5-pound bag: Readers weighed in on parental reactions to first boyfriends/girlfriends, whether co-workers and neighbors know where you stand on religion, indicators of a life well-lived, baseball, hiding a spare house key and several other issues. Thanks to all.

But sometimes I just have to say let’s move on.

Today’s Slice question: How many subspecies of Spokane 20-somethings can you name?