Sunday, April 29, 2007

Things you do not do in Hawaii



1. Eat at a Chinese buffet geared towards tourists (This is just bad news altogether.)

2. Try to go swimming at the North Shore (Common sense tells you that 10 - 15 foot waves are not a good sign. Yet I still saw parents letting their kids just run up to the water. Thank God for the lifeguard.)

3. Attempt to climb Diamond head if you are out of shape. (I admit I struggled to reach the top. Then some old lady passed us several times on the "stairs of death" doing her normal workout routine. Talk about depressing.)

4. Offend entire cultures by your actions. (I saw this happen several times, stop and think about your surroundings before you do or say something.)

5. Refer to the islands as the "Third World". ( I said it as a joke to a waitress, she did not find it funny. But in some regards I was right.)

6. Give a server a tip. (No matter what, every place we went to added gratuity to your check. It took a couple of days for us to realize this and stop double tipping.)

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