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March 27, 2008
WE GOOFED
Thanks for your great story on my new book, Island Life 101: A Newcomer's Guide to Hawaii, and for the opportunity to be on your podcast with the writer, Jessica Armstrong, and Starr Begley. Jessica really captured the spirit of what I tried to do in this book, and I really appreciate it!
I do have a couple of corrections: I don't dance the hula (in fact, I'm famous for being choreographically challenged), and I don't speak Hawaiian (though I love to sing Hawaiian songs).
-Jill Engledow, via email
GIVE ME A CHECK OR GIVE ME DEATH!
(Editor's note: the following represents a very small sampling of the rather negative, often vicious comments we received in regards to our Mar. 20, 2008 Eh Brah! column. Guess you people really, REALLY enjoy writing checks…)
I've seen the same check-at-the-check stand perpetrators, and I get that twinge of mild outrage at those Luddites who steadfastly resist progress and pay by check. It's an irony that paper checks were invented to get around another inconvenience: having to carry cash on your person.
In their time, checks were considered a convenience, just like debit cards are today. A lot of folks resisted using the "newfangled" form of payment back then, just like your two check stand speed bumps. However, it's paradise we're in here; time to cool it out and slow it down. If you choose this life (like I did), you should try to slow your tempo 'cause songs are slower here. I still get jumpy and Jonesin once in awhile, but Island Time is starting to rub off on me. So make allowances, take a few quiet deep breaths, and get frosty when those ants in your pants make you want to jump and squirm.
-Maui Mike, via Mauitime.com
Okay seriously: I thought it was going to be something bad but you got all worked up over someone inconveniencing you by writing a check ahead of you in line? That's just ridiculous. I couldn't help but chuckle at the part where you mentioned how irritated you get just thinking about it. WOW—what do you do when the guy in front of you decides not to blaze through the yellow light and you get stuck waiting for the green? I can picture you now getting out of your car and falsing some poor sap just because your PMS kicked in when you were behind the wheel! I hope I never run into you at the super market... or anywhere for that matter! Take a prozac, sweetie!
-Malu Lani, via Mauitime.com
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