The Slice: Return on his dollar strictly sentimental

Back when he was 16, Spokane Valley’s Tyler Tveit cooked burgers at Ron’s Drive-In.

It was his first job. Someone, it might have been his parents or grandparents, stopped for a meal and gave him a $1 tip. Tyler wrote a note on the dollar bill. But somewhere along the line he lost or spent it.

Now Tyler is about to turn 23. He is a cook at the Denny’s on Argonne.

Just the other day, a server showed him a dollar that had been part of a tip. She thought he would be amused because “Tyler” was written on it.

The 2010 University High graduate studied the bill. He realized it was that tip from his teen gig at Ron’s.

“Seven years later it winds up back in my hands,” he said. “It made for a pretty cool day.”

I asked Tyler if he planned to hang on to it this time.

“I do,” he said.

Squirt gun ammo, Part 2: Bruce Werner remembers when he and other boys would add a few drops of red pepper sauce (think Tabasco) to squirt gun water. He recalls the practice became popular but then disappeared in recognition of “mutually assured destruction.”

Bad spellers: “Years ago I worked in the lumber industry in Montana,” wrote Paul Halttunen of Liberty Lake. “I had a supervisor that I didn’t respect very much because it was obvious to me he didn’t get the position because of his brains.

“One night he left me a short note regarding suggested tasks for the night’s shift. It contained 12 spelling errors. I took it home for my twin sons to review.”

The two third-graders spotted 11 of the errors and would have gotten them all except they didn’t know the word “wheelbarrow” (the supervisor had it spelled “wheelbarrel”).

Here’s another. Elaine Giadone was teaching at a local middle school quite a few years ago when the principal sent out a group email with “Just a genital reminder” in the subject line.

“The talk of the building for quite a while.”

Today’s Slice question: If you started a band, what would you call it?