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The Slice: At least her cat was warm

Sometimes air flow gets blocked.

“I just read the energy saving tips in my latest Avista bill/newsletter,” wrote Carolyn Terry.

One noted that if you have things placed on top of vents you are essentially heating those objects instead of your home.

Terry realized that there was, in fact, something on top of one of her heating vents – “My 19-year-old cat.”

Slice answers: “Many years ago, my husband, Ric, skied all day long,” wrote Mary Clarke. “When he got home, he complained that his feet hurt and thought maybe he should get new ski boots. Upon inspecting his boots, out fell a couple of Legos.”

And Deer Park’s Greg Robbe shared this. “When I owned a music store in Fairbanks, Alaska, I found a Lego stuck in the bell of a school trumpet I was cleaning.”

Cottage cheese serving suggestions: Sandra Lawrence and Steve Smith are among those who recommend trying it with picante sauce.

Rich Kapelke mixes it with oatmeal and cranberry juice.

Memory aids: “The story about the clothespin on the keys jogged my memory not about lights but about bikes,” wrote Jerry Hilton. “A couple we know who are avid bicyclists were coming home from a biking weekend with their bikes on top of their car. When they got home (presumably tired) the wife got out and opened the manual garage door and waved her husband into the garage. As you can guess there was damage to the bikes, the car and the house.

“Shortly after hearing of the incident I went over to Seattle to retrieve my son’s bicycle. I put it on the rack on top of the car and headed home. As I was driving I thought about that couple’s misfortune and grabbed the garage door opener off the visor and threw it into the back of the car.

“When I pulled into the driveway and approached the garage I reached for the visor and only then remembered.”

Today’s Slice question: Were school children more creative about plagiarism and other forms of cheating before the Internet?

Write The Slice at P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; email pault@spokesman.com. One reader said his daughter’s astonishing spider-sighting screams made him wonder if she was getting kickbacks from an audiology clinic.

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