The Slice: Buckle up for the ride of your life

I recently was taking some medications that prevented me from driving a car.

It made me take a hard look at how I behaved as a passenger. I have my answer now. But what about you? If you were being honest, how would you rate yourself when it comes to your tendencies when riding shotgun?

Do you shout instructions at the driver every 15 seconds? Are you calm and exude a sense that you have total confidence in the person behind the wheel? Do you jerk your head around so vigorously when monitoring traffic from the passenger seat it is a wonder it doesn’t snap right off your neck? Do you continuously cringe and bite your lip because you are certain the driver isn’t up to the job of watching the road? Do you cover your eyes and murmur a prayer?

Let’s move on.

Here’s what Barbara Keene might say to a celebrity that he/she would find fascinating: “Please tell me all about yourself.”

Today’s Slice question: My wife had an idea.

She thought that on my first week back at work after recuperating from a brain operation, I ought to bring a few boxes of emptied intravenous syringes into the office. I could invite my co-workers to fill them with water. Then we could all go down to the courtyard behind the Review Tower and engage in a friendly water fight. (Those syringes can really pump out the fluid.)

But when I got back to work, the courtyard was no longer a courtyard. And it was cordoned off.

It’s a long story. In any case, I realized we needed a Plan B. A contest maybe.

So how about this. Tell me why you deserve to be given the used syringes and I will consider passing them along.

They are too big to be reasonably useful for illicit activities. Besides, they are designed for use with IV lines, not needles.

They might, however, work well in an art project or some other creative endeavor not involving internal consumption.

So here’s the question.

Why should you receive the small mountain of syringes?

Today’s Slice question: Did you ever figure out where that smell was coming from?