The Slice: Why pregnant women wear muumuus

At least one of Newton’s laws of motion applies here.

Dennis Foster remembers when his wife, Sue, was near the end of her two pregnancies and wanted to get up from bed to go to the bathroom. The 4-foot-11 Sue would have to start rocking side to side.

“Until she could get that weight going, and then roll over,” recalled Dennis.

Let’s move on.

Slice answers: What makes you feel old?

“The mirror in my bathroom,” said Gary Polser.

“A 75th birthday,” said Jay Broderick.

Bruce Werner wrote, “Makes me feel old when I see young soldiers humping 80 pound kits across all terrain under all conditions and thinking I couldn’t keep up with them without any gear.”

For Linda Carroll, it was transferring numbers from an old Rolodex to her phone and realizing that most of the names were individuals no longer living.

Patty Bozarth said it’s this. “I’ll be 69 this year but that doesn’t make me feel old, neither do my wrinkles or the fact that I have been married 50 years. It’s when I hear that 1990 was almost 30 years ago!”

For Rob Harper, who teaches music for grades 1 through 12 in Davenport, it was the realization that he has now had three generations of the same family in his classes – grandma, father and daughter.

Re: Sunday’s Slice: “Your words about saying goodbye to the neighbor’s cat reminded me of an old friend long gone,” wrote Ellen Sherriffs. “My husband was mowing when two kids walked by and asked where the yellow cat was. This cat would come out to the street to talk to them every time they walked by. I guess he had friends we never knew about.”

Seasonal warning: Steve Ball saw the question about bugs in the mouth.

“I was on a white water raft trip on the Lochsa River a few years back. My raft mates were freaking out about a huge hatch of May flies all along the river.”

One thing led to another and soon Steve and his friend Terry were trying to see who could be the first to catch one in his mouth.

“We found out that tongues are not designed for all-day day sun exposure. We had them stuck out so long that they got badly sunburned.”

Today’s Slice question: If Mark Few saw you play at Hoopfest, what are the chances he would inquire about your NCAA eligibility?

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