The Slice: Watch your back, Grandma

Tina Wynecoop’s granddaughter admired a necklace Tina was wearing.

And little Josie, a first-grader, had a question for her grandmother. As Tina tells it, the kid didn’t beat around the bush.

“She asked me if she could have my necklace when I become extinct.”

The answer was “yes.”

Re: Leaving work James Brown-style: “No,” wrote Betsy Lawrence. “I’d rather finish loudly and while the music blares, slip away barely noticed. Then a co-worker would announce ‘Betsy has left the building.’ No encores for me.”

Favorite breakfast cereals: “In my youth, I was hooked on Sugar Frosted Flakes,” wrote Bruce Au.

Ken Stout recalled when he was a pre-teen and model cars could be found inside packages of Rice Krispies. “I would eat three boxes a week.”

Nancy Kiehn loved Trix until they changed the recipe. “I wish they would bring back the original Trix.”

Cindy Matthews used to enjoy Cinnamon Toast Crunch before she decided to kick sugar.

Peter Lucht liked Frosted Mini-Wheats.

Jerry Barnhill recalled having a thing for Cap’n Crunch and then Lucky Charms. (Speaking of Lucky Charms…once, in a pet store, he pleaded with his mother to buy him a leprechaun.)

Lots of readers knew that Calvin of “Calvin and Hobbes” ate Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.

If birds named their nests the way developers name subdivisions: “Aerial Place,” wrote Tom Stewart.

“Robinsville Manor,” said Emil Wunderle.

“Warbler’s Wobble,” wrote Beth Neal.

Sometimes you have to take a second look: Lan Hellie was appalled. He was on Facebook and saw a picture of a grinning girl standing in front of a dead animal in the snow. The creature had an arrow sticking out of it.

Hellie wondered. What kind of person would use a photo like that for her icon image?

Then he looked closer. The object behind the girl turned out to be a ski jacket being held in place by a ski pole.

Oh.

Today’s Slice question: Do you observe Selection Sunday?