06-30-2008, 05:14 PM
It is difficult to pay friends around here. Giving them money is a deep insult. I have a friend on Oahu who is going to pick my nephew up at the airport in August, take him to the university dorms, get him a bus pass and in general get him oriented to Oahu - this is a mainland nephew and the poor kid is going to be terribly confused and he will need a mentor. They will probably end up friends since they share a lot of the same interests, but at the moment, my Oahu friend is doing me and my sister a huge favor but he still won't take any money for it. We will at some point send him something to make up for it - perhaps disguised as a birthday or Christmas present - but directly giving him money to do this favor for us is impossible.
Kurt Wilson