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If you actually read my posts, you would understand that the frustration is with being charged $28 parking to eat dinner at a restaurant on OPENING NIGHT. The 4.5 hour dinner was a result of EXTREMELY SLOW SERVICE; no guest should be penalized for delays caused by their slow service.
Who waits 4.5 hours to have dinner unless they are throughly enjoying the wait?
Who waits 4.5 hours to have dinner unless they are throughly enjoying the wait?
Were MANY free cocktails served?
Opening night or not - I don't buy 4.5 hours for dinner. It's not a big place. I'd say it took 30 minutes for our steak to come out - even if you triple it for opening you still have a huge buffer.
Exactly. It makes no sense for a parking lot in a very high demand area to sit virtually empty because rates are nearly $10/hr.
The problem is a thinking error. Most people who support the ideals that your pointing out as lolo are the same ones who believe that the mainland is a place of diversity because they have alot of minorities who live there. Ignoring that no the mainland is not very diverse place because we all speak english and are very limited to a few mainstream ideals of correctness.
This is why so few outside ideals are accepted here.
And it would probably still be there but you and others stopped stopping in. Well that and the fact that Don Ho is dead.
Honobob, I would have stayed and visited quite often. But, unfortunately, Vietnam was calling at that time. Where I proceeded to, and ended up blown up, burned 80% of my body 2nd and 3rd degree, and a loss of 136 lbs. in a week. After That, I spent a year and a half on a death bed at Ft. Sam, San Antonio, TX. All that stopped me from doing anything for a long time. Now, it's all history.
"If you don't know what calling someone "a local" means on Oahu then maybe you just haven't lived there long enough to know."
"Pretty sure I have a longer family history in the islands and pretty sure I know exactly what is meant by the use of "local". It is not the same meaning as local might have in other states. Maybe it sticks in your craw that you are not a local." End quote:
Ok thats like saying a guy who is a fullblooded native is native because of his blood. Thats pupule. I know many natives that are more "haole" then most look like on the outside. You do bring up a good point that most don't know what local means in the past on Oahu. Most people don't know that in our tutus generation it was shameful to speak non-english, it was considered lowclass to speak olelo hawaiian or to be local. Why? Maybe the same reason why "haole" hate is alive today. Or the push for wealthy to have everyone speak english and to think and to be the same today? Its da same spirit of the missionaries.
While now there is a cultural renaissance of the language and all things Hawaiian in the younger generations.
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And it would probably still be there but you and others stopped stopping in. Well that and the fact that Don Ho is dead.
You do understand what you said is faulty thinking right? I know tons of local places that closed because the landowners could get more money from a corporate owned business or a condo then a local owner. Some places still very popular. Be careful your mainland thinking is showing.
While now there is a cultural renaissance of the language and all things Hawaiian in the younger generations.
Yup its a good thing. Its scary to think that just 40 years ago that the language almost went extinct. Im just waiting for it to go mainstream in our society like it was when it was outlawed. Its a gorgeous language.
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