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The Slice: Readers weigh in
“I had a good laugh reading about Barbara Greer’s baggage experience,” wrote Joyce Momb. “It reminded me of the first time my husband and I visited Hawaii. When the luggage belt started, I saw a deplorable suitcase coming out, bent in half with several pieces of underwear hanging out. I told my husband, I feel sorry for the owner of that bag. When the bag got closer to us, I realized, it was MY bag!”
Teri Maurice answered the question about shared walls. “As someone who has been living in a condo for slightly over four months and who last lived in an apartment over 40 years ago (all those decades in single-family houses) I have to say it’s a good thing. I think it’s a positive and find it a bit comforting to be reminded I’m surrounded by others by hearing the grandchild of the upstairs neighbors running across the floor (nonstop it seems) when he visits or hear the laundry running in the next unit.
“Living in close proximity to others is the norm in the rest of the world (if they’re lucky enough to even have a home in so many places) and there’s a good lesson in that. We’re all one community.”
Others offered somewhat less sanguine perspectives.
In the matter of dealing with those who assume Spokane is a Seattle suburb, readers told various tales of explaining Northwest geography.
Reactions to last Saturday’s column about attitudes re: downtown’s parking meters tended to focus on issues surrounding meter revenue, the River Park Square parking garage’s financing and the company that owns this newspaper.
Most respondents were civil, but we have heard it all before.
On another topic, a number of readers said yes, they sometimes have the momentary impulse to call their mother even though she’s gone.
In response to a warm-up question, Paul Ruch wrote, “I never heard of the Spokane Comets and I never saw Forbes Kennedy play in Spokane. However, I lived on the East Coast in the ’60s, and Forbes was with my beloved (Philadelphia) Flyers in the late ’60s. He was my hero.”
Patt Earley said you don’t need to have all that many flights of stairs to get some wintertime exercise, especially if you tend to forget why you went to the basement in the first place.
Good grief. Out of space already. Have to leave gun ownership, who gets to use your nickname, et cetera for another day.
Today’s Slice question: Is this area a hotbed of “mansplaining”?
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