01-07-2009, 01:16 PM
Your poor wife! That is outrageous and devoid of aloha.
I am unclear, though, about who is and is not a porter at the Hilo airport. Is it just the workers in red uniforms, or others as well?
Last year I was walking toward the rental car kiosks and a young (early to mid 20s) Caucasian fellow in one of those red uniforms started calling abuse toward me across the street. At first I thought he was yelling something to someone behind me, but after a couple moments started figuring out what he was saying and realized it was directed toward me. I was wearing a "Strength Through Peace - Dennis Kucinich for President 2008" tee shirt at the moment; the guy in the red uniform was really going off about it, ranting (way worse than one hears on talk radio; it was beyond unpleasant and well into hostile and abusive). I just smiled, waved, said "Aloha!" in reply, and kept moving toward the rental counter (before the rest of the herd just off the jet arrived and it took 45 minutes longer to get out of there).
Seems like the airport firms could afford to be a bit more choosy about who is retained, especially given the significance of tourism to the economy and how word of mouth works on eroding the Big Island image of aloha when people have these sorts of interactions at the Hilo airport.
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman
"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."
NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt
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I am unclear, though, about who is and is not a porter at the Hilo airport. Is it just the workers in red uniforms, or others as well?
Last year I was walking toward the rental car kiosks and a young (early to mid 20s) Caucasian fellow in one of those red uniforms started calling abuse toward me across the street. At first I thought he was yelling something to someone behind me, but after a couple moments started figuring out what he was saying and realized it was directed toward me. I was wearing a "Strength Through Peace - Dennis Kucinich for President 2008" tee shirt at the moment; the guy in the red uniform was really going off about it, ranting (way worse than one hears on talk radio; it was beyond unpleasant and well into hostile and abusive). I just smiled, waved, said "Aloha!" in reply, and kept moving toward the rental counter (before the rest of the herd just off the jet arrived and it took 45 minutes longer to get out of there).
Seems like the airport firms could afford to be a bit more choosy about who is retained, especially given the significance of tourism to the economy and how word of mouth works on eroding the Big Island image of aloha when people have these sorts of interactions at the Hilo airport.
Typo edit in green
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman
"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."
NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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