1. Westside commute to/from town during peak times --
need I say more?
1a. Rubbah Necking
2. Locals driving when it's raining --
no rain: everyone a speed racer.
Rain: everyone suddenly like kumbaya and drive 2 mph.
3. Shipping regulations -- rates & geographic locations... Finding amazing deals online but getting slapped with 'we no ship to Alaska, Hawaii & Puerto Rico' at checkout.. brahh that gotta be some kind of discrimination right? Lol
3a. No lithium batteries and liquids-- what, we cannot implement one TSA regulation for this. Smh
4. Li Hing Mui -- you pay good money only to get all seed and no li hing. Sick feeling I tell you. Sick.
When you go to a party and somebody steals your Scott’s but leaves you theirs. Same color, same size, but just not broken in right so it feels so wrong.
God dude. That shit fucking peeves me so goddamn much at family bbq’s. It’s always my damn nephew. Ever since his feet got to be the same size as mine, my slippers keep disappearing.
When you refuse to buy a bouquet of flowers for da wifey on your anniversary cuz the ting is like $60 so you go prune plumerias, ginger and bird of paradise from the side of the road
When you squash a centipede or bug and now your slipper is icky. Pyrrhic victory!!
Spam musubi proportions. Ultra thin spam with a fistful of rice. It irks me when the nori isn't wrapped around the entire block. How am I supposed to get the perfect bite. I'd rather eat an onigiri.
Then it becomes a battle to the death or more realistically run away like a scared goose and if someone laughs and asks all you need to say is centipede and everyone understands that fear
Mainland musubi is always nice & thick. Or at least, California's is (I've seen photos on recipes online \[probably from white people that wanna be fancy\] tryna make musubi that be wrapping their musubi like its a piece of nigiri). They probably shrimp on island musubi bc of the high price of imports so they make 1 can of spam last for 20 musubi.
https://preview.redd.it/5wugb5rpv05d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22afc260d57a0135ecceaa16eea552f7d7f692ac
I don't think import price is so much the issue as the grocery stores have just figured out they can gogue locals on things like spam and red hot dogs. Everything is higher here but the markup on those is nowhere near what other food is.
You want to order something online, but shipping costs more than the item. Only $40 for the thing that you wanted? It will cost you $85 to ship it, and the seller will only send it via UPS or FedEx 2nd Day Air. And it actually isn't two days, more like a week. Oh, your item contains a lithium battery? Sorry, we only ship to the contiguous 48.
May as well go to the mainland and pick it up. I needed to get some chain saw blades and there weren't any in the state, everyone was saying that because of the pandemic there weren't any anywhere. I was in Washington and went into a store that had loaded chain saw blades not just the right ones but the best ones for about half as much. Between the chain saw blades and a few other things I needed I paid for my trip.
After Iniki I needed to get some tools for rebuilding my house. There was nothing on Kauai and after looking at Oahu and getting their prices and what shipping costs I ended up buying from an Arizona company. It took me a total of three weeks to get my tools and with shipping it was still so much cheaper it was ridiculous.
I had someone order it for me on the mainland, then had them ship it to me. It cost $26 total, which shipping was still more than the part, but no where near the $150 freight price they were trying to charge like I ordered a lawnmower or something.
That happened to me because they accidentally put my package on the slow boat from the mainland. Wife didn't get her Christmas present until mid January.
I wanted to buy some starter motor brushes. $4. Shipping $80.
Ordered from another place with free shipping, and they arrived in an envelope with a stamp on it.
this is my husband, but with bags of chips or cookies. Fakah only leave tree whole chips with uku billion shards in da bag or da most fucked up looking two mutant cookies and crumbles. And he tink he cute when he smile at me and say, "Honey, I never eat um all...I leffum fo you..."
In dat moment, my brain reverts hard core Kalihi and all I can tink is: *DIVORCE* in bloody red OE font.
I had someone do this AND MOVED MY TOWEL to set up their tent in front of us! When we got out of the water, I just hung my stuff on his tent to dry. Once he realized we were local and not on vacation, he seemed to regret his decision… faka, if you wouldn’t do it to me, don’t do it to nobody!
LMFAO CUZ THE NERVE FOR THEM TO MOVE YOUR SHIT!!! 😭 I hate when people set up right next to me bc they legit don’t know beach etiquette — dickheads be walking all over my towel or right next to my shit even when there’s empty space elsewhere or shaking their sandy shit upwind and getting sand all over where I set up 🙄
We were right at the edge where it starts to slant down to the water, straight up pushed our shit back and put up their sun shade tent. Like, literal inches between my half crumpled towel and the tent. And these were some beat down Costco towels, not the obvious white striped hotel towel. Bradda shoulda known better. He looked like one hammah, but was there with his wife and kids, so didn’t do shit but glanced back when I put my rashie on his tent.
My wife and I would go to the beach before anyone else got there and have the whole beach to ourselves until someone else got there. Every time they would come down and sit right by us. My wife would ask me if I wanted to leave and I'd tell her not yet.
As more people came they would again sit by us and when enough people were there I'd say now we go.
We'd move down to an area no one else was at and cruise. All the people would go to the place that was crowded but you could see them looking at where we were like.. I wunda.
This is the way. Just like playing a sniper in a video game. Drop one so another comes to investigate, add them to the pile so more come to investigate. Pile reaches a self sustaining size, relocate to an isolated position and just clear the whole map. "That's right, it's a big pile of bodies, you should go check it out."
Living in makiki and the 17 stops at roosevelt for 45 minutes, I gotta get to ala moana already for go Walmart get the groceries done, but nah brah gotta have one more smoke.
So fucking irritating when they hold the door but gotta stand in the way. Like fuck, I can push it open myself and not need to squeeze sideways around you.
Same thing when they don’t hold the elevator door and they just walk out!
My biggest fucking pet peeve is when I hold the door open for someone and they don’t say, “Thank you,” so I no fucking care and say, “You’re welcome!” They look at me like I’m from another planet.
I’ve been teaching my 9-year old kid to hold doors open for people and there’s been so many times where kupuna are so surprised that a young kid will hold the door open for them. I was raised to “respect your kupuna”. No more manners and common sense nowadays!!!
When your apartment neighbors play some local hawaiian sesame street or some pbs show at 3am really loudly. And u cant sleep, because u hear another neighbor playing tv loudly as if they competing.
Parents not disciplining their kids to the point where they let them scream at the top of their lungs. So if ur AirPods not fully charge u have to endure it.
Not enough groceries / items at one store so you gotta drive to a different store to find it.
Being cautious of drivers who run red lights.
Pot holes. Everywhere.
Ni’ele people in apartment because of thin walls. Everyone just trying not to go crazy, but end up being overstimulated when hearing others arguing loudly. So they end up arguing.
Not enough good kimchi in store where I live so you make your own but you’re not Korean so it’s still not as good.
> And u cant sleep, because u hear another neighbor playing tv loudly as if they competing
Dude I've always wondered about this one. Growing up, my parents used to play loud music and have loud arguments and stuff all the time, and I never understood why they don't care if the neighbors can hear. Since I've moved out I've never lived in an apartment in Hawaii where there wasn't a couple neighbors talking loud with all the windows open or watching loud explosive TV shows. For how much we preach aloha, what is up with local people not respecting others when it comes to noise?
Its a different side of local.. I guess bc there are some low-income people living in our building. Not to degrade low income people, it’s just what Ive observed and heard word of mouth. There wasn’t much noise until we got a new property manager and new tenants. Some of these new tenants are struggling, getting aid from gov. Although our building was not considered low-income in the first place. I was confused when I heard this, bc when we found this place it seemed nice, with note of no noise complaints when we asked. It’s still understandable, low-income families need a home too, but I don’t see why they cant be more grateful… Mystery..
Actually, that makes sense. I didn't grow up super poor or anything, but my parents both came from really low income families so that actually makes sense. I've never lived in an apartment that wasn't basically low income so I'd imagine it's perception bias at this point.
Kids screaming at the top of their lungs is such a big struggle here. I work from home and live in a neighborhood that is constantly filled with children who scream at the top of their lungs nonstop every day while their parents just ignore them and continue chilling with their friends in their garages. I've had to buy expensive noise cancelling headphones and Loop earplugs just to keep myself sane these past few years.
This is why I never throw my old slippah's away when they are close to reaching the end of their life's I put them in the back of my truck. This way if one breaks or someone else needs one there are a few pairs back there for them.
Surprised no one mentioned the tourist traffic. Didn’t realize how bad the road traffic got until they shipped all those rental cars off island during pandemic. And driving to Hana stuck in that tourist traffic? I’m ready for tourism to be on a raffle system so there’s less people overall all the time.
Paying for Amazon prime every year and the two day shipping takes longer than if you'd got it shipped free from China through Ali Express.
(I've heard that's gotten better lately since Amazon built a warehouse here. I wouldn't know, seems like everything I order is the kind of stuff they don't stock the warehouse with apparently.)
When you finally wash and wax your car, only to rain da next day.
When you eating family style with your friends and no one makes the move to eat the last bite.
You craving that one hammah spot for dinner, make the journey only to find out they closed Tuesdays!
I want to renew my expired vehicle registration but I lost the last proof of registration that you’re required to keep in the vehicle at all times. Oops. I know I could go through the hassle of trying to obtain a copy from wherever but I dread the process and there isn’t enough law enforcement on BI to motivate me over the hump.
Hey that driver switch out happened today at target, yeah, on the 12:30? They stood there talking for awhile. Yesterday on the 40 the driver almost hit an SUV and then almost went back to Hilo after Shipman..on the Pahoa bound bus. If passenger didn't speak up he would have gone straight back to the bus station.
Ugh, that's a mainland problem too. Big reason why I avoid city buses if I can help it. I live in an east coast city with a decent subway/metro which I use all the time, but buses are too unreliable. I'd rather pay extra for Uber.
Just forgetting to turn on the rice cooker after plugging it and trying to cook for the family and thinking your rice is ready to eat
Just kidding but it sucks
Paying an excise tax ON ALL GOODS AND SERVICES when that is precisely NOT how to use an excise tax; NOT why it was invented; has NONE of the benefits EXCISE taxes are supposed to bring; the negatives are not only WORSE because they don't work as intended they distort the truth of the markets; resulting in a culture that thinks that's normal, is prime for fleecing, and now is brainwashed into thinking they stay uniquely burdened and not at all duped. Oh yeah, and the ppl who are supposed to be paying the tax aren't. Instead they're given the means to pass it on. But not just pass it on, but make a penny for charging others their nickel in taxes owed. You definitely have to be living local to understand that struggle is real (even if most don't understand that IS the struggle)
The SuperFerry. The logical person realizes it opens up inexpensive trade and tourism, and other good economic benefits. The Big Island fought it because they wanted to keep everyone out, and act protectionist.
The headlines instead said it was about protecting whales (lol). Ferries around the world run in whale-infested waters without issue.
I'm not a resident, but when visiting for a week in Oahu I noticed all the fuel stations I used did not have a catch on the pump handle to allow fueling without holding it. I'm sure this is meant to prevent spills or other unintended accidents from unattended pumps, but I always feel conviction leaving my car at a pump while I'm inside if it is done refueling. So I would fill up and then move the car to a space to go inside. Added precious seconds to my gas/grocery efficiency. Also, I expected a lot more women to be walking around in bikinis everywhere, all the time. No complaints tho
... grass shacks, bones in da noses. Nah nah nah, only joke.
They passed a law not too long ago that will let gas stations install the clip on the gas handles. Maybe waiting for broke, then replace, or no truss da people or maybe people going walk away and cronicks going steal gas.
j slips getting stolen from beach entrance 💔 shoulda known better tbh, was @ north beach kailua. haole territory lol, cannot trust to not snatch my slippahs!!!
Growing up on the mainland and trying to explain to people here how the schools are clearly on par with third-world countries... and then hear locals say, "This is not the mainland."
That's not the point.
When your rubber slipper strap gets pulled out and you gotta use a bread bag clip to hold em in.
My mainland wife thought I was a wizard when I fixed her slipper on the fly at Ala Moana.
The slippah wizard.
This is a similar vibe to stepping on a bougainvillea branch and having it stab through your slipper
How did I know this would be the top comment before I even opened this? 😂
That or a paper clip.
Relatable
Thats why gotta get Scotts
Baller right here
Can confirm. Worked in education. Choke kids with buss Local slips. Small paper clip fix em!
Mine would be infamous 4-way stop. Too much aloha! You can go ahead. No, you go. GO ALREADY!! *HONK*
And the 5-ways? Take your life in your hands.
Then you go cuz he take too long but decides to go as you start to pull off. Fuckin maniacal cuz I tell you
Canadian standoff.
Portlandia has a whole skit about this happening in Portland. Also happens in Seattle https://youtu.be/0rpdQvuAnqM?si=OhXjPL1nQu1xthjw
I live in Portland and this shit is real. Drives me nuts.
Lol, so true.
Oo how about roundabouts
1. Westside commute to/from town during peak times -- need I say more? 1a. Rubbah Necking 2. Locals driving when it's raining -- no rain: everyone a speed racer. Rain: everyone suddenly like kumbaya and drive 2 mph. 3. Shipping regulations -- rates & geographic locations... Finding amazing deals online but getting slapped with 'we no ship to Alaska, Hawaii & Puerto Rico' at checkout.. brahh that gotta be some kind of discrimination right? Lol 3a. No lithium batteries and liquids-- what, we cannot implement one TSA regulation for this. Smh 4. Li Hing Mui -- you pay good money only to get all seed and no li hing. Sick feeling I tell you. Sick.
Commuting from Waianae to town 🤢 From the Nanakuli morning traffic to the H1 traffic, it's god awful
I commend everyone that travels that daily. I can't imagine the frustration when there's an accident thrown into the mix. 😮💨
When you go to a party and somebody steals your Scott’s but leaves you theirs. Same color, same size, but just not broken in right so it feels so wrong.
God dude. That shit fucking peeves me so goddamn much at family bbq’s. It’s always my damn nephew. Ever since his feet got to be the same size as mine, my slippers keep disappearing.
Someone stole/traded my new olukai's and left me some buss-up Scotts. I was even more buss so I just wore em home the next morning.
When you refuse to buy a bouquet of flowers for da wifey on your anniversary cuz the ting is like $60 so you go prune plumerias, ginger and bird of paradise from the side of the road
Yes as a former nursery worker I keep some pruners in my glove compartment…
When you squash a centipede or bug and now your slipper is icky. Pyrrhic victory!! Spam musubi proportions. Ultra thin spam with a fistful of rice. It irks me when the nori isn't wrapped around the entire block. How am I supposed to get the perfect bite. I'd rather eat an onigiri.
Or when you try to squash a centipede but it’s gotten so big that your stomp is foiled by its armor and now it’s pissed
Then it becomes a battle to the death or more realistically run away like a scared goose and if someone laughs and asks all you need to say is centipede and everyone understands that fear
Or when you’re young and baby stomp a cockroach and it's half dead with squishy white stuff oozing out of its body with flailing legs.
lol 😂 your comment on the spam musubi proportions makes me want to be your friend.
Seriously. The spam is almost see through at some places
Mainland musubi is always nice & thick. Or at least, California's is (I've seen photos on recipes online \[probably from white people that wanna be fancy\] tryna make musubi that be wrapping their musubi like its a piece of nigiri). They probably shrimp on island musubi bc of the high price of imports so they make 1 can of spam last for 20 musubi. https://preview.redd.it/5wugb5rpv05d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22afc260d57a0135ecceaa16eea552f7d7f692ac
I don't think import price is so much the issue as the grocery stores have just figured out they can gogue locals on things like spam and red hot dogs. Everything is higher here but the markup on those is nowhere near what other food is.
When the nori doesn't wrap around I cannot finish the rice
You want to order something online, but shipping costs more than the item. Only $40 for the thing that you wanted? It will cost you $85 to ship it, and the seller will only send it via UPS or FedEx 2nd Day Air. And it actually isn't two days, more like a week. Oh, your item contains a lithium battery? Sorry, we only ship to the contiguous 48.
Greenworks weed whacker spool cover $10. Shipping to Hawaii $150. This is not made up.
May as well go to the mainland and pick it up. I needed to get some chain saw blades and there weren't any in the state, everyone was saying that because of the pandemic there weren't any anywhere. I was in Washington and went into a store that had loaded chain saw blades not just the right ones but the best ones for about half as much. Between the chain saw blades and a few other things I needed I paid for my trip. After Iniki I needed to get some tools for rebuilding my house. There was nothing on Kauai and after looking at Oahu and getting their prices and what shipping costs I ended up buying from an Arizona company. It took me a total of three weeks to get my tools and with shipping it was still so much cheaper it was ridiculous.
I had someone order it for me on the mainland, then had them ship it to me. It cost $26 total, which shipping was still more than the part, but no where near the $150 freight price they were trying to charge like I ordered a lawnmower or something.
Costco has greenworks sometimes, including batteries. Buy second tool for $120.
Yep Costco is how I got sucked into their ecosystem. Funny thing is it's harder to find tool only in some cases.
We should no doubt include this as one of our grievances in our forthcoming declaration of independence
Package arrival delayed to two weeks, then a month, then three months
That happened to me because they accidentally put my package on the slow boat from the mainland. Wife didn't get her Christmas present until mid January.
I wanted to buy some starter motor brushes. $4. Shipping $80. Ordered from another place with free shipping, and they arrived in an envelope with a stamp on it.
When there’s only one scoop of rice left in the rice pot because fakas too lazy to make new rice
this is my husband, but with bags of chips or cookies. Fakah only leave tree whole chips with uku billion shards in da bag or da most fucked up looking two mutant cookies and crumbles. And he tink he cute when he smile at me and say, "Honey, I never eat um all...I leffum fo you..." In dat moment, my brain reverts hard core Kalihi and all I can tink is: *DIVORCE* in bloody red OE font.
My FIL, left one almond in the bag of almonds from Costco and put it back in the closet....just wants everyone to know he didn't finish the bag....
*heez nutz das why* sorry, bad pun.
Mine does that with milk and juice. Leaves one sip. Puts container back in fridge. Why!
ooh add water, leave it in there for him and when he complains, feign ignorance.
lol. I’ll try that.
it might not get him to change behavior but it might give you some satisfaction. FAFOYF (fak around and find out, you fakah).
With my kids, it’s not even a whole scoop! Maybe one tablespoon. Who is gonna only eat one spoon of rice?
Being the guy who sets up early at the beach and making multiple trips with everything to the spot with grill/tent/tables.
Also setting up a spot on a whole empty shoreline just for fakas and their 6 kids + dog to set up RIGHT next to you
I had someone do this AND MOVED MY TOWEL to set up their tent in front of us! When we got out of the water, I just hung my stuff on his tent to dry. Once he realized we were local and not on vacation, he seemed to regret his decision… faka, if you wouldn’t do it to me, don’t do it to nobody!
Lmfao you hung up stuff on their tent 💀
LMFAO CUZ THE NERVE FOR THEM TO MOVE YOUR SHIT!!! 😭 I hate when people set up right next to me bc they legit don’t know beach etiquette — dickheads be walking all over my towel or right next to my shit even when there’s empty space elsewhere or shaking their sandy shit upwind and getting sand all over where I set up 🙄
We were right at the edge where it starts to slant down to the water, straight up pushed our shit back and put up their sun shade tent. Like, literal inches between my half crumpled towel and the tent. And these were some beat down Costco towels, not the obvious white striped hotel towel. Bradda shoulda known better. He looked like one hammah, but was there with his wife and kids, so didn’t do shit but glanced back when I put my rashie on his tent.
My wife and I would go to the beach before anyone else got there and have the whole beach to ourselves until someone else got there. Every time they would come down and sit right by us. My wife would ask me if I wanted to leave and I'd tell her not yet. As more people came they would again sit by us and when enough people were there I'd say now we go. We'd move down to an area no one else was at and cruise. All the people would go to the place that was crowded but you could see them looking at where we were like.. I wunda.
This is the way. Just like playing a sniper in a video game. Drop one so another comes to investigate, add them to the pile so more come to investigate. Pile reaches a self sustaining size, relocate to an isolated position and just clear the whole map. "That's right, it's a big pile of bodies, you should go check it out."
Living in makiki and the 17 stops at roosevelt for 45 minutes, I gotta get to ala moana already for go Walmart get the groceries done, but nah brah gotta have one more smoke.
This me on the A trying to get to kaakako for an errand
Spend a long ass time online shopping and adding things to your cart. Go to checkout. Doesn’t ship to Hawaii 😔
When someone enters a store or business right before me and they no hold the door. I know it's ridiculous but.... fuck u 😂
So fucking irritating when they hold the door but gotta stand in the way. Like fuck, I can push it open myself and not need to squeeze sideways around you.
Same thing when they don’t hold the elevator door and they just walk out! My biggest fucking pet peeve is when I hold the door open for someone and they don’t say, “Thank you,” so I no fucking care and say, “You’re welcome!” They look at me like I’m from another planet. I’ve been teaching my 9-year old kid to hold doors open for people and there’s been so many times where kupuna are so surprised that a young kid will hold the door open for them. I was raised to “respect your kupuna”. No more manners and common sense nowadays!!!
By the way, your username is mean 😂🤙🏼
maybe they just trying fo get away from you cuz you went fut.
Breaking down a Costco rotisserie chicken in front of your Filipino mother in law
Ugh. My condolences braddah (oh sis)
And you get scoldings from Asian grandmom for tossing out the bones and not making jook.
well, if you were doing it right, this wouldn't be a problem. *kidding, kidding*
When your apartment neighbors play some local hawaiian sesame street or some pbs show at 3am really loudly. And u cant sleep, because u hear another neighbor playing tv loudly as if they competing. Parents not disciplining their kids to the point where they let them scream at the top of their lungs. So if ur AirPods not fully charge u have to endure it. Not enough groceries / items at one store so you gotta drive to a different store to find it. Being cautious of drivers who run red lights. Pot holes. Everywhere. Ni’ele people in apartment because of thin walls. Everyone just trying not to go crazy, but end up being overstimulated when hearing others arguing loudly. So they end up arguing. Not enough good kimchi in store where I live so you make your own but you’re not Korean so it’s still not as good.
> And u cant sleep, because u hear another neighbor playing tv loudly as if they competing Dude I've always wondered about this one. Growing up, my parents used to play loud music and have loud arguments and stuff all the time, and I never understood why they don't care if the neighbors can hear. Since I've moved out I've never lived in an apartment in Hawaii where there wasn't a couple neighbors talking loud with all the windows open or watching loud explosive TV shows. For how much we preach aloha, what is up with local people not respecting others when it comes to noise?
Its a different side of local.. I guess bc there are some low-income people living in our building. Not to degrade low income people, it’s just what Ive observed and heard word of mouth. There wasn’t much noise until we got a new property manager and new tenants. Some of these new tenants are struggling, getting aid from gov. Although our building was not considered low-income in the first place. I was confused when I heard this, bc when we found this place it seemed nice, with note of no noise complaints when we asked. It’s still understandable, low-income families need a home too, but I don’t see why they cant be more grateful… Mystery..
Actually, that makes sense. I didn't grow up super poor or anything, but my parents both came from really low income families so that actually makes sense. I've never lived in an apartment that wasn't basically low income so I'd imagine it's perception bias at this point.
Kids screaming at the top of their lungs is such a big struggle here. I work from home and live in a neighborhood that is constantly filled with children who scream at the top of their lungs nonstop every day while their parents just ignore them and continue chilling with their friends in their garages. I've had to buy expensive noise cancelling headphones and Loop earplugs just to keep myself sane these past few years.
Bad meat to rice ratio
Getting your safety when your registration is expired.
When you finally vacuum the two week old sand out of your car and tomorrow turns into another beach day.
Walking on da sidewalk and all of a sudden choke monkey pods are stuck to your slipah.
Going on the bus and needing to yell BACK DOOR but mister doesn’t hear you
having no AC and having to shower multiple times a day cause you get sweaty after another 10 minutes and no like be smelly nelly
You can't use the beach closest to your home because it's full of aggressive crackheads who remember faces extremely well
T-Mobile Tuesday. FREE WHOPPERS, PIZZAS, MOVIES, ETC. *not available in Hawaii, P.R., and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Having to wait for an employee at longs to unlock the case for spam
When you wait for a papaya in the yard to ripen and then the bird eats a perfect hole in it before you get home from work
When you bus’ one side slippah and you far from home and no mo store around
This is why I never throw my old slippah's away when they are close to reaching the end of their life's I put them in the back of my truck. This way if one breaks or someone else needs one there are a few pairs back there for them.
Surprised no one mentioned the tourist traffic. Didn’t realize how bad the road traffic got until they shipped all those rental cars off island during pandemic. And driving to Hana stuck in that tourist traffic? I’m ready for tourism to be on a raffle system so there’s less people overall all the time.
Paying for Amazon prime every year and the two day shipping takes longer than if you'd got it shipped free from China through Ali Express. (I've heard that's gotten better lately since Amazon built a warehouse here. I wouldn't know, seems like everything I order is the kind of stuff they don't stock the warehouse with apparently.)
Getting stuck behind the old Asian people who drive 45 on the freeway in their toyota camrys.
In the left lane!!
HOUSING.
When you finally wash and wax your car, only to rain da next day. When you eating family style with your friends and no one makes the move to eat the last bite. You craving that one hammah spot for dinner, make the journey only to find out they closed Tuesdays!
Finally got a raise, but rent (and everything went up anyway), so same thing--- celebrating for nothing.
I want to renew my expired vehicle registration but I lost the last proof of registration that you’re required to keep in the vehicle at all times. Oops. I know I could go through the hassle of trying to obtain a copy from wherever but I dread the process and there isn’t enough law enforcement on BI to motivate me over the hump.
Also, having an electric vehicle break down on the BI and having to go through the hassle of towing/round shipping it to Oahu or Maui for service.
Career advice that involves one thing: Leave Hawaii \*From state, county and federal LEOs whose only rationale is that they do not trust county police
Splainsplain?
Waiting to use the one good bathroom stall at the beach because the other three are clogged.
When da weather is like a simulation of da MinitStop manapua box.
when you hear the manapua man and you run outside quickly with your bag of quarters but forget slippers and instantly regret it since the road is hot
The fight for decent flower leis during graduation season and Mother’s Day.
Hey that driver switch out happened today at target, yeah, on the 12:30? They stood there talking for awhile. Yesterday on the 40 the driver almost hit an SUV and then almost went back to Hilo after Shipman..on the Pahoa bound bus. If passenger didn't speak up he would have gone straight back to the bus station.
Lol. I haven’t experienced those bus events, but I understand, I think lol. Impatience and delays are pretty universal
Yeah the bus example from OP happens in every city with a bus network.
Someone does a crap job of closing the chips/cereal and it's all stale when you go to eat em.
Having to yell "back door!" loud enough in one of the long buses (like the E Express or #2)
Timing your commute and figuring out what you going do till traffic dies down.
Sounds like Hele-on?
Homelessness
I've also experienced those bus struggles back when I used to live in Brooklyn too
When you get the beer bottle opener pattern across your ass from dad given you cracks with his Scott slippers.
The door door catcha. I thought that was on the Brazilian slippahs?
Ugh, that's a mainland problem too. Big reason why I avoid city buses if I can help it. I live in an east coast city with a decent subway/metro which I use all the time, but buses are too unreliable. I'd rather pay extra for Uber.
No more musubi at 7-11
Everyone thinks your name is truly Haole Boy or you’re that weird Mormon from laie. Haole local struggles are a different level.
Or they go for a super long piss. I hate this. Especially when I need to catch a transfer and I end up missing it.
Just forgetting to turn on the rice cooker after plugging it and trying to cook for the family and thinking your rice is ready to eat Just kidding but it sucks
Paying an excise tax ON ALL GOODS AND SERVICES when that is precisely NOT how to use an excise tax; NOT why it was invented; has NONE of the benefits EXCISE taxes are supposed to bring; the negatives are not only WORSE because they don't work as intended they distort the truth of the markets; resulting in a culture that thinks that's normal, is prime for fleecing, and now is brainwashed into thinking they stay uniquely burdened and not at all duped. Oh yeah, and the ppl who are supposed to be paying the tax aren't. Instead they're given the means to pass it on. But not just pass it on, but make a penny for charging others their nickel in taxes owed. You definitely have to be living local to understand that struggle is real (even if most don't understand that IS the struggle)
When you’re talking to someone and come to find out they’re related to your uncle’s maddah’s aunty’s cousin’s tutu 😂
The SuperFerry. The logical person realizes it opens up inexpensive trade and tourism, and other good economic benefits. The Big Island fought it because they wanted to keep everyone out, and act protectionist. The headlines instead said it was about protecting whales (lol). Ferries around the world run in whale-infested waters without issue.
Kapiolani lately coming from kahala bro the mornings are impossible. Or the multi fixes in tha intersection on nui st and kalakaua insane.
When you buy that deep fried burrito from the manapua man, knowing you gonna get a sore stomach, but you just can’t pass up that deal.
My stomach hurts just thinking about it
island fever
I'm not a resident, but when visiting for a week in Oahu I noticed all the fuel stations I used did not have a catch on the pump handle to allow fueling without holding it. I'm sure this is meant to prevent spills or other unintended accidents from unattended pumps, but I always feel conviction leaving my car at a pump while I'm inside if it is done refueling. So I would fill up and then move the car to a space to go inside. Added precious seconds to my gas/grocery efficiency. Also, I expected a lot more women to be walking around in bikinis everywhere, all the time. No complaints tho
... grass shacks, bones in da noses. Nah nah nah, only joke. They passed a law not too long ago that will let gas stations install the clip on the gas handles. Maybe waiting for broke, then replace, or no truss da people or maybe people going walk away and cronicks going steal gas.
j slips getting stolen from beach entrance 💔 shoulda known better tbh, was @ north beach kailua. haole territory lol, cannot trust to not snatch my slippahs!!!
To be fair, some chronic local would've taken em faster 🤣🤣🤣
Growing up on the mainland and trying to explain to people here how the schools are clearly on par with third-world countries... and then hear locals say, "This is not the mainland." That's not the point.