The Slice: With this crazy cat, push but don’t touch

It’s a funny thing about my neighbor’s cat.

She shows no signs of wanting to be picked up.

Yet she seems to enjoy being rolled down the hall in this one office chair on wheels.

Let’s move on.

Feedback: North Idaho’s Stephanie Eloe is a pretty good cook. But she knows a culinary creation was less than a success when her husband says, “Let’s just have this during Lent.”

Slice answers: Lots of people loathe middle of the street ashtray dumpers.

Just wondering: How many Slice readers besides the one guy I heard from had mice take up residence inside backyard grills over the winter?

And which of the following — borrowed from local apartment complexes — would the mouse or mice have preferred as a name for the repurposed grill?

A) Alpine Square. B) Castle Grove. C) Deer Run. D) Morning Glory Circle. E) Trestle Creek. F) Walnut Corners.

Still more questions: “How many syllables in didn’t?” wrote Bill Sawatzki. “Is the answer age or gender related?”

Things that can keep you awake at night: 1. Having heard that a member of the tenure committee said she can’t stand your beard. 2. Worrying that it was a costly breach of pastoral decorum to have told that one time-wasting pest to go to blazes. 3. Everyone else on the partner track plays golf.

Today’s Slice question: What do you suppose members of the Corps of Discovery said on this date in 1806 as Lewis & Clark were about to embark on the return trip?

A) “Did we turn everything off?” B) “Let’s try to make good time for a change.” C) “Has everyone gone to the bathroom?” D) “Steer clear of those hump-backed bears this time.” E) “If you’re not ready in five minutes, we’re leaving without you.” F) Other.