Only in LB: Reasons to smile — or frown

Long Beach

The attack of Halloween reminds maine of the clip our then-9-year-old girl Sarah told her parent that we wouldn’t person to decorate our location with artifact spider webs. “We person plentifulness of existent spider webs,” she pointed out. Mom wasn’t thrilled with that report.

• By the mode I indispensable confess that I didn’t cognize that Oct.1 was World Smile Day. It was christened successful 1963 by a commercialized creator named Harvey Ball, who invented the blessed look symbol.

Another creator came up with a facial look that combined aspects of Halloween and grin day. Oddly enough, my person Bob Cuomo recovered a concern that besides seemed to beryllium ambivalent astir being over-friendly (see photos).

Anyway, aft my unspeakable snub of World Smile Day, I went successful hunt of cheerful faces connected nextdoor.com and, not exactly  a surprise,  came crossed items much suitable for a World Frown Day.

• For instance: 1 suspicious scholar asked if anyone was missing a marque caller achromatic bicycle “walking down” the street? And what benignant of acknowledgment did she person for her concern? Another scholar said helium hoped his car wouldn’t locomotion distant arsenic well.

To which the archetypal scholar said, “Don’t beryllium a jerk.”

• Another grimacer was the scholar who reacted with irritation erstwhile she learned a favourite edifice of hers mightiness beryllium replaced by a drive-thru.

“Oh, no, no,”  she said. “How many  drive-thrus do  you java drinkers need?”

All unneurotic a  spot excessively overmuch hostility, perhaps, for different contributor who quoted from the Eagles’ “Hotel California.”

“You tin cheque retired anytime you like, but you tin ne'er leave.”

• Something to grin about: A survey ranked Los Angeles Airport the fourth  astir feline “pet- friendly” airdrome halt successful the nation. One of its innovations is simply a motion that gives tail-wagging regulations.

Entrance signage astatine favored alleviation country astatine Houston airport.

• San Diego  Airport besides has a precise spiffy favored alleviation motion (see photos.).

And Long Beach Airport  has installed immoderate favored areas, including 1 with a faux hydrant — outside. Guess you could accidental Long Beach is going to the dogs. But grin erstwhile you accidental that, podner.

Steve Harvey tin beryllium reached astatine steveharvey9@/gmailcom and sharvey.9.