I was sitting next to a man on a MEM-BNA flight (don't ask why I was in the middle of nowhere) when after noticing I was from Hawai'i (it's a good conversation starter) he proceeded to tell me about a prior marriage he had... to a Hawaiian girl. For that one reason, he has never returned to the islands before...
Ironically, there's an article in the
HNL Advertiser today about that exact point:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">As much as you might want to avoid your ex after a divorce, remember this is an island.
Those places where you used to go, those friends you used to see at your favorite restaurants, well, you may have to decide who gets custody of your hangouts. Or just accept that running into your ex and old friends who might feel awkward about your divorce is just another price of paradise.
"It's challenging here," said Mitzi Gold, a psychologist and director of the Mars & Venus Counseling Center of Hawaii. "It's more incestuous here. It forces people to have to kind of deal with all these other people. You can't just run away and go to another city 20 miles away. You are going to run into them." </font>
So rule number one... if you piss someone off in the islands... make sure to either, a) don't come back or b) plastic surgery helps... or c) go to a different island
It's just a slow news day, alright?
aloha