ONLY IN HAWAII

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Only in Hawaii

 It is fairly standard to see homeless people dragging shopping carts on their respective journeys around town. But what I witnessed a few days ago while I was ensconced in my car was truly priceless. An oversized shopping cart adjacent to the entrance of Longs Drugs was brimming with a stupendous concoction of bulging trash bags that rose at least six feet high. Soon a homeless person came to retrieve his possessions. Using a long coiled rope attached to a makeshift crossbow, he moved his belongings away from the drug store.  At first, he made little progress. But after spasmodically grunting, gasping, and lurching, the man managed to pull the massive cart to a stop light. He soon disappeared.

I admired him for his perseverance and his ingenuity. Although I never got a chance to find out what the man valued in his cargo, I bet that his explanation would be a whopper.

That same day, I saw something almost just as amazing, this time on the highway. A man riding a motor scooter had a bunch of wrapped asparagus stalks dangling from his mouth. And extending to his side were a dozen asparagus spears that methodically swayed in the wind. What a hoot! To avoid having motorists gawking at his cache, the man should have placed his food into the seemingly empty satchel on his vehicle.

But if his intention was to entertain other drivers, he abundantly succeeded.