The Slice: Two GR8 topics of discussion

Here are a couple of questions to get things started.

Where were you when someone took note of your license plate and wanted to chat you up about our part of the country?

What cities’ temperatures do you check every day?

Slice answer: “Having recently retired after working 21 years at WSU, while living in Moscow, Idaho, I estimate that my daily trips across the ID/WA border and back – minus vacation and sick leave – would have net me around $10,400 at $1 per trip,” wrote Scott Fedale.

What Cynthia Laird said to someone who doubted that we really landed men on the moon: “Oh, Grandma!”

Slice answer (how do you feel about kids addressing parents by their first names?): “Let the spankings begin,” wrote Gary Polser.

And Frank Kondler shared this. “When I was about 11 or 12 years old, I heard an older neighbor girl call her mother by her first name. That night at supper I asked my parents how old did I have to be before I could start calling them by their first names. My father, after nearly choking on his food, informed me that I would never be old enough.”

More on maintaining the structural integrity of sandwiches: “My mother packed my father a lunch six days a week for 30 some years,” wrote Owen Fullmer of Chewelah. “In it was always his favorite peanut butter and pickle sandwich. Dad insisted that peanut butter be spread on both pieces of the white bread so the bread couldn’t absorb the pickle juices.”

So far, no one has suggested “Try to build it with less than 20 layers.”

Seasonal obsession: The Slice heard from a couple of readers who live next door to people who cut the grass every day. Every single day.

But George Bick has a more leisurely schedule.

“I have mowed part of my lawn once this season,” he wrote. “When I get the mower back from the shop, I’ll finish the rest.”

Today’s Slice question: What’s the secret to enjoying a high school reunion?