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The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash., The Slice column [The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.](Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sept. 15--This was not how you were supposed to pay. "When I was about 17 or so, I was collecting for the S-R -- in those days we collected every week," wrote Mike Storms, a newspaper carrier in a bygone era. "This one gal came to the door dressed only in a bath towel and invited me in. She was a very shapely, tall brunette. She kept parading around looking for her purse. She made a point of the fact that her husband was deployed. As I was standing there waiting to be paid I was thinking she was acting pretty weird. It wasn't until several years later, when I was in the Army, that I finally realized she was trying to seduce me. I was just too naïve to recognize it." Spokane and "Oz" ( Re: Friday's Slice): "When I started in public accounting, I did a lot of traveling," wrote Mary Cayer. "At that point in my life, I considered the travel to be an employee benefit. I no longer consider it to be such. "I traveled with a group of other young accountants. We would get on the plane on our way home, sit in our seats and, in unison, click our heels together three times and say 'There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home.' "I still do that, whenever I am on a plane and I am coming home. And it still works, for there is no place like home." Rewriting that old Johnny Cash song title: "Don't Take Your Thresher to Town." -- Scotty Davis Those who deserve to be called a humanitarian: Barbara Miller nominated Bob Colonna, a retired psychologist who has devoted himself to helping generations of lead-poisoned families in the Silver Valley. Spokane retirement/ second-career options: The Slice had suggested opening a British-style pub and calling it the Moose & Marmot. But Sue Chapin begged to differ. "The bar name would have to be Moose and Squirrel (said with an accent)." OK. That would set up the perfect headline when the S-R reports its closing six months after the grand opening: "It's curtains for Moose and Squirrel." Today's Slice question: Do you think that every other day of the week is fine? Write The Slice at P. O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; email [email protected]. "Famous Nutcakes" could be a license plate slogan. ___ (c)2014 The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.) Visit The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.) at www.spokesman.com Distributed by MCT Information Services |