The Slice: Those duck-and-cover times created explosive attitudes

If you ever attended a school where some of the students were from Air Force families and the other kids were from civilian homes, you might recall that occasionally tensions existed between the two groups.

Well, here’s where that might have started.

Back in 1962, Lee Walker was a seventh-grader in Moses Lake. At some point during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Air Force kids were removed from his school. They boarded buses and rode off to nearby Larson Air Force Base.

“There was a rumor that they had a bomb shelter to go to,” he said.

What about the civilian kids like Walker? Well, they were instructed in Civil Defense protocols such as pushing their desks away from the windows and then getting down under them.

And trying not to resent those base kids supposedly snug in a reinforced bunker.

Jenny take a ride: Craig Godtfring wonders how many other drivers name the voice that speaks for their GPS system. “Mine is Jennifer,” he said. “She is fun to tease.”

Changes in latitude: “I will miss snow like no other,” said Julia Duchow, who moved from Spokane to San Antonio this summer to be a live-in nanny. “But I’ll be home for Christmas, so hopefully I can get some snow then.”

Just wondering: In what way were depositions with which you have been involved different from the ones depicted in “The Social Network”?

Which line from the 1970 movie “Little Big Man” best sums up your experience of living in the West: A) “This man has spent years with mules.” B) “That was the end of my religion period.” C) “Licked? I’m not licked. I’m tarred and feathered, that’s all.” D) “Would you like to come into my teepee and rest on soft furs?” E) “Today is a good day to die.”

Odds are: At least one person who still resents the downtown Spokane shopping mall because of the parking garage controversy has the initials RPS.

Today’s Slice question: How would you describe the ideal showerhead water pressure?