you know you local

You know you Local, if you understand:


- and speak pidgin english and da people cannot understand you

- You automatically take your slippahs off in someone elses home

- No body is completely sure where "north" is...

- You eat rice every single day

- Its shave ice not snow cones, shoyu not soy sauce, saimin not ramen, Kada-okay not Carry-ohkie, slippers not flip flops

- You know to NEVER turn your back to da ocean

- The name Duke means royalty...

- You know what "ukus" are

- You have highlighted hair

- You know where all da creepy places like burial sites are on da island

- Da term "dress up" means one nice aloha shirt and jeans

- You eat arare and malasadas

- You know what "tutu" means

- You get a million pairs of rubbah slippahs outside your house when your family gets together

- You dont understand why someone would buy anything smaller den a 20 pound bag of rice

- You eat portuguese sausage, eggs and rice for breakfast

- You buy large quantities of toilet paper Jus in case get strike

- You would serve spam as a meat for dinner

- You can taste da difference between teriyaki and kal-bi

- You know wut da "stink eye" is and how to give it

- You can correctly pronounce Kalanianaole, Kalakaua and Aiea

- You know wut "Morgans Corner" is and it still scares you

- You know da difference between being hapa and hapai

- You know wut it takes to get into Kamehameha schools

- You say "Nori" not seaweed paper and "Brah" not Bro

- You know exactly why Sharks Cove is called that

- Your jokes are about Podagees not Polocks

- You tink 70 degrees is cold

- You know pineapples dont grow on trees

- Public transportation = Da Bus and Opala = rubbish

- You get da surf report on speed dial

- You spent half your life barefoot

- You neva understood why adding pineapple to anything made it "Hawaiian" to da rest of da world

- You eat green mango wit shoyu, vinegar and pepper

- You know how for cook rice by measuring da water wit da knuckle of your finger

- The condiments at da dinner table are shoyu, ketchup, chili peppah watah, kimchee, takuwan, Hawaiian salt and pickled onions

- You call everyone older den you "Aunty" or "Uncle" even if dey aren't related to you

- A balanced meal has both starches: rice and macaroni salad

- Your only suit is a bathing suit

- You drive barefoot

- You feel guilty leaving a get together without helping clean up

- The idea of taking something from a heiau is unthinkable

- You'd rather drag out da compressor every morning to fill da leaky tire instead of get it fixed

- Da only time you honk your horn is during a wedding or safety check

- Your cuzin is Japanese-Chinese-Filipino-Hawaiian-Portuguese-French-Korean-Scottish and some stuff too manini to mention

- You watch your favorite shows "on top da TV"

- A approaching hurricane only means one thing....Surfs up brah!

- Beans and ice cream are da perfect condiment for shave ice

- No one knows exactly where da "fast lane" is on da freeway

- Female volleyball players are major celebrities

- Birds walk more den fly

- When you hear da words "fundraiser" it means sweet bread, huli huli chicken, podagee sausage or Zippy's Chili

- You go to Maui and your luggage home includes potato chips, manju, cream puffs, guri-guri, Maui cookies and saimin from Sam Sato's

- You have someone in your family named "Boy", "Tita", "Bruddah", "Sonny" or "Honey Gurl"

- You have a slipper tan and you know 101 ways fo fix yoa rubba slippahs

- You sometimes use your open car door as a dressing room

- "You like beef" has nothing to do wit wuts for dinner