The Slice: First drive in new car takes a wild turn

Susan Guffin waited six months for delivery of her brand new Chevy Volt.

And just the other day, she and husband Tony got the call that the electric car had finally arrived. It would be the first of that model handed over to a customer by Camp Chevrolet.

Guffin was excited. “I got to drive it home,” she wrote. “Well, I got to start driving it home. I drove it past Nine Mile, and right into a suicidal deer.”

She was sad about the animal’s demise. But there was another concern.

The Volt’s radiator was damaged.

So back to the dealership Guffin went, to drop off her new vehicle.

And resume waiting.

“Except for hitting the deer, I really enjoyed the first 20 minutes of having it. It’s a great car.”

Slice answer: The question about whether a marriage can happily endure without laughter appeared on Lisa Thompson’s 24th wedding anniversary.

“We’ve been through some great times, some really rocky times, and a whole lot of in between,” she wrote. “What’s gotten us through is the ability to make each other laugh.”

Working in shifts: The parking lot shared by the North Side Onion is patrolled by crows and seagulls,” wrote Mike Storms. “They appear to take turns. Sometimes it’s crows, sometimes seagulls, but never both.”

Which makes him wonder. “How would a bird sign a contract?”

Probably not with a quill pen.

Slice answer: “There are 10 people I have met that actually APPEARED in Sports Illustrated,” wrote North Idaho’s Gary Cannon, a recent Boeing retiree from Western Washington.

Cannon, who grew up in Spokane, has been a member of the volunteer civic group known as the Seattle Seafair Pirates. And a few years ago a contingent of his fellow buccaneers was visiting the Cayman Islands and wound up in a photo shoot for the annual swimsuit issue.

They appeared in a picture in which a young woman in a bikini (Melissa Haro) was front and center.

Today’s Slice question: Who can name the most Interstate 90 exits in order?