The Slice: Coming soon: Fall-back, Christmas forward

Remember, don’t mess with your clocks this weekend.

The fall-back is still four weeks away.

And, for those keeping score, Christmas is exactly 11 weeks out. So it will be here about half an hour after the time change.

The area resident least tolerant of rain: Coulee Dam’s John McNeil said it’s his family’s 18-year-old feline, a Norwegian Forest Cat named Heather. Apparently she is almost capable of suspending the laws of physics to stay dry.

And it’s not just a matter of making the leap to warp speed to avoid rain drops. Heather just doesn’t like to get wet, period.

McNeil said that many years ago she considered getting into the bathtub with one of the kids. But then Heather emphatically decided against it, seemingly managing to levitate before making a fast virtually walk-on-water U-turn that became a family legend.

Today’s Slice question: About what subject are people here most apt to be misinformed?

A) Spiders. B) Pet neutering. C) Laws pertaining to bicycling. D) Major junior hockey. E) Winter driving. F) The relationship between those “TV anchor in action” promos and the actual duties of TV anchors. G) Racism in Spokane. H) Statistics relating to guns and self-defense. I) The likelihood that schools can save kids no one else cares about. J) Nutrition. K) Asthma. L) Life “back east.” M) Canadian laws. N) The actual breed of UW’s sideline mascot. O) Tax policy. P) The lives of Native Americans in our area. Q) The symbology of large pickup trucks. R) The effectiveness of anger as a bargaining posture. S) The credibility of NIMBY rationalizations. T) Humidity. U) The difference between Spokane reality in 1961 and “Leave it to Beaver.” V) The existence over on the West Side of traffic-weary people who actually think the Spokane area is pretty appealing. W) Potholes (here vs. elsewhere). X) Bugs (here vs. elsewhere). Y) The idea that nirvana can be achieved by finding a transcendent parking spot. Z) Other.