I SAW YOU
FLYING MONKEY ATTENDANT: You've been covering for that poorly performing pilot for most of your career. Be assured; we do not stand with you. "Boys Behaving Badly" seems to convince you of some status you don't have. You can go down with him. We will not.HILLYARD LIBRARY HOTTIES: Thank you for being a great distraction
MIRABEAU PARKWAY TO MY HEARTWAY: Hello, beautiful. That day as you approached me sitting on the bench at the park, radiant as ever, who knew you would be the one that was destined for my love. It was written in the sky above, we just walked the path that was chosen for us. Our journey is forever more, take my hand to the promised land baby.
CHEERS
AMERICA: "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men [humans] are created equal..." Diversity has always been with us. Equality has always been our ideal. Our greatness stems from the expanding understanding of that ideal and our continued aim for it. Inclusion is the natural result. Being anti-DEI is an attempt to destroy the basis for our existence as a country. Our ideals are not going away.CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY... I love this time of year. It is quite possibly my favorite, closely followed by all the rest. Spokane is pretty special, shhh!
TO UNDERSTANDING AND PATIENCE: I'd like to say thank you to all the great people of Spokane who I have served at my job. I'm pretty new and not the greatest server, but there have been those of you who showed patience and understanding and tipped me even when you waited long, your food was wrong, or I forgot something. Good people like yourselves make up for all the entitled "regulars" who judge scowl and tip crappy. So thank you, you are appreciated!
DOING THE RIGHT THING: Cheers and thank you to the many Spokane drivers who are buying a current license tab. It shows that you care and want to do your part in paying for and maintaining our road system. How about the rest of you who are knowingly driving with expired tabs? You want to use the streets but don't want to pay for the privilege? No excuses please; don't want to pay for a tab? Walk, ride a bike or use the very good bus system we have. Let's all do our part... it's the right thing to do!
SALES CLERK MADE A DIFFERENCE: Many thanks to Austin at Tradehome Shoes. Eight pairs to find the fit resulted in 3 days of monstrous airports, 8 days of 15K daily steps in Istanbul's cobbled streets, squares, palaces, museums, forts, ferries, churches, shops, restaurants, and mosques. My feet were stable, happy, and pain-free! BEST shoe-buying experience and result EVER!
THANK YOU FOR THE WARM WELCOME! Thank you to the ladies at the Ponderosa Republican Women's group! Your warm welcome to me during my first lunch with you ladies was so appreciated. Especially since it's been such a hard road finding friendships in Spokane. People say this is a welcoming city, but only if you aren't conservative. So thank you all for being friendly, welcoming and what a good community looks like.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: Corporal punishment or physical discipline is used to cause deliberate bodily pain or discomfort in response to some undesired behavior. Most civilizations since ancient times have used floggings, beatings and whipping as punishment for crimes or injuries. It may be inflicted on prisoners and slaves. Incarceration in the United States is one of the primary means of punishment for crimes in the United States. Corporal punishment was widely utilized in U.S. schools during the 19th and 20th centuries as a way to motivate students to perform better academically and improve their behavior. Corporal punishment is still widespread in the southern U.S. Beating one's son as a form of punishment is even recommended in the book of Proverbs, also known as tough love. Corporal punishment in school has been outlawed in Canada. The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries saw the increase of humanitarian ideals and human rights that such punishments are increasingly viewed as inhumane in the Western society.
ARE YOU DISAPPOINTING YOUR DOG? I'm trying to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.
TO THOSE WHO CHEER: I find it hard to believe that so many Inlander readers have so much to complain about and so few are ready to cheer their fellow man. The cheers column has shrunk to near nothing while the jeers section has grown. It's human nature to complain. For some reason it doesn't seem to take as much effort to complain as it does to praise. We certainly have things to complain about. Our politicians aren't what we wish they were. Spokane has some terrible drivers. And if you haven't seen the pothole at the corner of...you don't know potholes. But put in some effort here people. There are lots of great things happening out there. Let's hear about them too.
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR... Thank you to our amazing neighbors... Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Canada for supporting us with your low sales tax on liquor! The Washingtonians LOVE you!
TRANSITION: Everyone knows change is here, but what does the future look like? The end of the United States because we haven't been united in a long time. Since everything is inter-connected, when you pull on one thread, things start to unravel. What you end up with is the Americas, all three of them, joining forces to create a free trade zone between the Americans and the rest of the world, but the transition to get there will be complicated.
JEERS
ENTITLED "REGULARS" Jeers to any customer who considers themselves a "regular" at any restaurant and thinks they are entitled to special services and attention. Even worse you treat new servers like they are idiots because they don't know who you are or what you eat. Hate to break it to you but to your "regular" server you're just another tip. Of course we all try to know names faces and preferences but give us a break, you're one out of hundreds we see every day so get over yourselves. Maybe be nicer to the new servers and they might care to get know you.WHERE IS DOGE WHEN YOU NEED IT? President Trump is going to spend $92M on his birthday parade and there's a Republican movement to make "Trump's Birthday and Flag Day" a new federal holiday. Now I know where those Head Start funds are being used. Where is DOGE when you need it?
RE: ILLEGAL PLATES: So. You "highly recommend [we] let this topic go...let us non-law abiding citizens without updated tabs live in peace." That's the same argument of any person doing something wrong, sinful, immoral, shirking the law, or criminal. It's the egotistical, arrogant, selfish attitude that one can do anything desired with no consequences and the heck with others. It's what makes Trump Trump. You're just doing it on a minute scale. Your lack of payment takes funds from the Spokane community and state for transportation improvements, the highway patrol, etc. So, no. I and others won't ignore your lack of respect for your fellow citizens and its effect on all of us.
GOODBYE AMERICA: Sad to say... the America I knew is dead. It has become a place even superman would no longer be welcome. We build statues to criminals and our leaders have mug shots. A criminal that just shot a child, thanks to crooked lawyers and judges, now has more rights than the parents of the child he just murdered. Superman's motto of "truth and justice" no longer applies here. Sorry superman, it looks like Lex Luthor is in charge now.
TAKE YOUR DOG POOP HOME! Dog walkers - please take your stinky bag of dog poop & put in your own trash bin at home & not just the nearest trash bin in your neighborhood.
DUDE A HOUSING CRISIS: Across the board job uncertainty (because of your buddy's cuts), inflation, traffic deaths are the highest they've been since the '90s and you're gonna spend your time and our money on college basketball legislation. You really do put the BUM in Baumgartner. Glad you got booed out of Spokane. You deserve it.
DEI NO THANKS: Dear Mr. "You-Think-You-Know-About-DEI-But-You-Don't": First, I have to say DEI started out with good intentions. However, in practice it is far from "inclusive." And frankly, in practice, it is down-right racist and sexist! First, it is not "inclusive" as it totally excludes conservative thought. DEI mandates that we exclude words like "homeless" for nicer-sounding words like "the unhoused." Now, regarding equity: are we, as a society, supposed to lower our standards because the fire department needs to hire more women? Frankly, if my house is on fire, I want the strongest, most capable person behind the fire hose. What's wrong with merit-based employment and academia? Do you really want a teacher who was at the bottom of his/her class teaching your children? Life is not fair, ever. Quit acting like it will be. ♦
