The Slice: Cupid’s arrow sometimes misses mark

A lot of people who got engaged or married on Valentine’s Day are now divorced.

Just saying.

Inland Northwest Barn Cat Hall of Fame: “I would love to nominate my adopted furry son,” wrote Linda Waali, who lives about 10 miles from Elk. “Tiger migrated from the neighbor’s farm when the females started picking on him … we think.”

Tiger has missing teeth, missing toes and a suspiciously short tail.

But he’s not such a tough guy that he couldn’t make friends with a Great Pyrenees dog named Tasha. “The two are inseparable,” Waali said.

The social lives of adults with early bedtimes: Spokane Valley’s Gisela Dalke weighed in.

1. “Friday nights are usually out for me because I’m just too tired.”

2. “Several times I have fallen asleep on a friend’s couch after dinner, when everyone else was having a lively conversation.”

A friend who reads the S-R classifieds wondered: Are Studebakers making a comeback?

I’ll send a coveted reporter’s notebook to the reader who comes up with the best answer.

Re: mistaking someone else’s car for yours: Apparently this happens quite often. And sometimes people are able to actually get into the wrong vehicle before realizing what transpired.

Last winter, Laurie Cook’s family piled into the car during a snowstorm after watching a holiday play in Coeur d’Alene. “My husband remarked that the driver’s seat seemed pulled up too far.”

Then they figured it out.

“In our defense, there are a lot of green Subarus out there,” said Cook.

Today’s Slice question: If you send me an angry e-mail, would you prefer that I …

A) Not reply (and not try to have the last word). B) Write back and point out just why you are mistaken. C) Write back and contritely agree with everything you said. D) Other.