The Slice: Don’t miss your chance to land in the Top 10

Here are the titles of nine set-in-Spokane Hallmark Christmas movies that were never made.

Coming up with the 10th title is your assignment.

1. “The Christmas Wish That Wound Up Being Ignored.” 2. “Miracle on Bigelow Gulch.” 3. “Christmas Comes to Dogtown.” 4. “Marmots & Mistletoe.” 5. “A Very Special Holiday DUI.” 6. “The Angel of Airway Heights.” 7. “A Town Without Fruitcake.” 8. “Once Upon a Midnight Power Outage.” 9. “I Heard a Crow on Christmas Day.”

Slice answers: “I think most people in Spokane are fine about alternative transportation,” wrote Betsy Lawrence. “There are some crabby, noisy, jerks who live to comment negatively (and usually anonymously) who give the impression that our town is full of poops, which I refuse to believe.”

Stephanie Smith wrote, “There are many of us who like using something besides a car to go more than 50 feet and we tend to be quieter than the people who are opposed to anything but driving.”

Kitty Klitzke suspects that those loudly against sidewalks, bike lanes, et cetera are a minority in Spokane. “But it is still a hostile place to be a pedestrian.”

And then there was this from Russ Nobbs, who operates a small business employing 60 people.

“The simple answer is: Yes, the folks who oppose anything that would improve conditions for walking, biking and the use of mass transit do make a lot of noise here. They are particularly hostile to anyone who suggests improvements of this sort are a good thing.

“I’m not really sure why they are so opposed to these improvements. It feels like it’s fear based, as if they are afraid we will pry their hands from their steering wheels. Or that bike riders and walkers are taking something away from them. Are we using something that they believe they paid for and they, alone, own? Perhaps they are afraid of a social engineering conspiracy that will prevent them from driving?”

Today’s Slice question: What’s the story behind those marks on your kitchen ceiling?