The Slice: Paper-plastic question just didn’t seem too important

Here are a dozen possible reasons you might have forgotten to actually bring your reusable grocery bags into the store with you.

1. Too busy trying to come up with an acronym constructed from the first letters of everything on your list, which you left at home.

2. You were thinking about how implausible your explanation sounded when you tried to justify watching TV’s “Ghost Whisperer.”

3. You were trying to recall just when it was you stopped caring about whether the young men who populate your alma mater’s sports teams even pretend to be actual students.

4. You were trying to decide which would become your new online identity: “Mr. Darcy,” “Angryallthetime,” “Batguanocrazy” or “Hatecookie.”

5. Too busy trying to decide what to get Diane Lane for her birthday.

6. Wondering what ever happened to Doug Hurd, Milt Priggee and Ana Cabrera.

7. Still attempting to get that old “Addams Family” theme out of your head.

8. Trying to decide who you would want to play you in a movie about your life.

9. Mentally replaying an argument about whether early B-52s had taller tails.

10. Wondering when “Another Year” is going to show up in local theaters.

11. Distracted by the realization that the gas gauge is on E.

12. Busy speculating about the likelihood that the person parked to your right will fling open his or her car door in ding-creating fashion.

Saturday survey: If you are a dog owner who frequents drive-through espresso stands, please ask your canine companion which coffee hut he or she prefers and why.

Spanning the globe with Spokaneness: The Slice knows someone who sent a Spokane Canaries “Old Time Hockey” T-shirt to an online friend who lives in England. Which sort of makes you wonder where in the world one might have the unlikeliest encounter with an obscure Spokane-themed shirt.

Warm-up question: What do you have stacked on your ping-pong table?

Today’s Slice question: Do Spokane residents who grew up in parts of the country where the terrain is pancake flat find it mind-blowing to be looking out the window at rain while on the phone with someone in another part of town who’s saying, “It’s snowing up here”?