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The Slice: So you’re a big fan of spinach?
Lisa Ward, a human resources specialist for Boise Cascade in Kettle Falls, sent an email in which she addressed eating at your desk at work.
“The No. 1 downside to eating lunch at your desk (which I’m doing as I type) has to be the crumbs and sticky ‘stuff’ that gets on and into my keyboard. I could feed a small child with the crumbs that fall out of my keyboard when I turn it upside down.”
Too late for an “If you’re eating breakfast …” warning?
Later, she reconsidered. “I changed my mind. I would have to say the No. 1 downside would be having employees show up in my office unannounced and catching me with food stuck in my teeth … that I was made aware of only after they left.”
Lake country litter inventory: “Today, I completed my annual, self-imposed task of picking up litter near our home on Eastshore Road at Priest Lake,” wrote Teresa Vanairsdale. “It must be said that in so doing, I gain a sense of atonement for my own beer bottle sins of over 40 years ago, on the road between Priest River and Sandpoint, in the old rock cuts.
“This year, early on I thought Coors Light was going to win, but Bud Light came through strong at the end, eclipsing all comers.”
Though outnumbered, there was also a selection of premium beer bottles.
There’s more.
“When I found a discarded Nicorette gum wrapper, a low-fat yogurt container, and Fiber One Bar wrappers, I realized with some gratification that this year’s litterers, like so many of us, are at least somewhat health conscious,” wrote Vanairsdale.
But they’re still willing to chuck just about anything out the car window. Or at least manage to lose things.
“On the miscellaneous garbage list are some unmentionables, which I will leave to your imagination. Also, one blue soccer sock, a child’s Dora the Explorer slipper, a flossing tool, Uncle Josh’s Wisconsin bait still in its slimy plastic bag, and the ubiquitous bungee cords.”
Today’s Slice question: What did you do when you noticed someone apparently taking your picture with a phone camera?