The Slice: Now that’s what you call getting the bird

‘My husband and I have a bird situation,” said Lori Davenport of Metaline Falls, Wash.

It started last year when an Oregon junco began tapping on a window throughout the day, starting at daybreak.

Then last fall the bird left.

That sound resumed this spring. “We believe it’s the same little guy.”

But this year the bird also taps the side mirrors on Davenport’s truck.

One problem. “He leaves his calling card down the side of the door.”

She tried moving the truck. The bird was not deterred. Then she began tying plastic grocery bags over each mirror. That worked.

“Now he has moved to the chrome bumper. I can deal with the bumper. It’s all his.”

Gone but not forgotten: It’s certainly not the only thing Mark Bekken misses about the family dog. But since the pet died, Bekken has noticed that crumbs on the kitchen floor don’t magically disappear.

Odd couples: Vince Eberly was scrolling through a list of songs on his iTunes and saw the title “Monkey Gone to Heaven.”

“I quickly scanned to the artist’s name and saw Placido Domingo,” he wrote.

Huh? What opera is that in?

Turns out Eberly had skipped a line and the song in question is by the Pixies.

What’s your story along those lines?

Grocery list confusion: In Tomas Kelley Lynch’s household, they divide up the shopping list by stores. “The top line will say Rosauers, then everything below will be found at Rosauers,” he wrote.

Et cetera.

Well, his visiting brother took the list on a shopping run. But it was evident that he really didn’t grasp the system when he subsequently reported that he had been unable to find any “Huckleberry’s.”

More confusion: When Sue Hallett was little, she lived near several families related to hers.

“One Easter my mother asked me to go over to Aunt Stella’s and ask for old clothes for the ham,” she wrote.

So she went. After some initial confusion, it was determined that what Hallett’s mother wanted was whole cloves.

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