July 23, 2007
Lovin’ my baby
In my last post I mentioned the attention I heaped on my first cars. My current ride is a 2003 Saturn L200 and I love her dearly. Hokulele (shooting star, comet) is the first new car I’ve ever bought, and still new to me though she’s four years old now. She’s my “first impression” when clients meet me, so I have an added impetus for keeping her looking her best.
Y’all know that another of my passions is supporting the local community. I combine the two interests most weekends by seeking out local youth groups doing carwashes. Sometimes it’s a canoe club or hula halau (school.) This weekend it was a Samoan penecostal youth choir group. I hate to pigeonhole anyone, but I have to say that Samoan kids are the best carwashers on the island! As soon as I pulled up they started spraying with hoses, before I could even get out and go to the table to pay. I was surrounded by a wall of wet teens and sudsiness. It took less than three minutes for them to finish giving Hokulele her bath.
One of the guys at the washing station saw me taking photos of the team doing the drying and decided he wanted to be in on the act. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s impossible to take photos of local boys without them posing and throwing a shaka.
[tags]carwash, community groups, Hawaii, local customs[/tags]
Posted by skeet @ 12:29 pm • Society & culture
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July 24th, 2007 at 9:05 am, Jennifer Says:
hehe I love it
Stella’s been neglected lately. Poor thing. You might consider blurring out the license plate numbers.
July 24th, 2007 at 9:27 pm, skeet Says:
Ooops! I went back and redid my pictures to edit out the license plate numbers, then forgot to thank you! Mahalo for pointing that out to me. I’ve edited out plate numbers before, but totally forgot about doing it this time.