05-08-2015, 04:36 PM
HOTPE, great point!
Then, why did he lie and say he was a tourist (changed clothes from the Hilo Hattie Aloha shirt to "work" clothes, and changed vehicles), instead of stating what you just deduced? He could have asked one of the numerous cops stationed there to assist him. Instead, apologized for the "misunderstanding", shook the young man's hand, parked the "work vehicle" behind the visitor's center, and got back in his "tourist car" and left.
Befuddled.
JMO.
ETA: knieft, sorry, it's a hot mess. You're not alone. Some of us were born into this mess, aloha to you. Mahalo for the effort.
Then, why did he lie and say he was a tourist (changed clothes from the Hilo Hattie Aloha shirt to "work" clothes, and changed vehicles), instead of stating what you just deduced? He could have asked one of the numerous cops stationed there to assist him. Instead, apologized for the "misunderstanding", shook the young man's hand, parked the "work vehicle" behind the visitor's center, and got back in his "tourist car" and left.
Befuddled.
JMO.
ETA: knieft, sorry, it's a hot mess. You're not alone. Some of us were born into this mess, aloha to you. Mahalo for the effort.