I copied this from a facebook group. If you lived any amount of time in Hawaii, you’ll probably relate with many of these…It justifies why I need a GPS wherever I go, at least! 
- You can understand and speak pidgin english
– 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, slippers not flip flops
- You know to NEVER turn your back to da ocean
- The name Duke means royalty…
- You know what “ukus” are and you had um at least once when you was one lil keiki
- You been to almost all da oder islands
- 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
- You know what “tutu” means
- You eat malasadas
- 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 in case ders a longshoreman strike
- You would serve spam as a meat for dinner
- You know why ders letters on top da trees at graduations
- 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 a “Huli Huli” chicken is
- 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 why Sharks Cove is called Sharks Cove
- Your jokes are about da Portuguese not Polish
- You tink 70 degrees is cold
- You know pineapples dont grow on trees
- Public transportation = Da Bus
- You get da surf report on speed dial
- You spent half your life barefoot
- You neva understood why adding pineapples and ham to a pizza made it “Hawaiian” to da rest of da world
- You eat mango wit shoyu, vinegar and pepper
- You know how for cook rice by measuring da water wit da knuckle of your index 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 arent related to you
- A balanced meal has 3 starches: rice, macaroni salad, and bread
- 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 safety check
- Your cuzin is Japanese-Chinese-Filipino-Hawaiian-
- You watch your favorite shows “on top da TV”
- Da best cooks use pleny mayonnaise
- Beans are da perfect condiment for ice cream
- No one knows exactly where da “fast lane” is on da freeway
- Birds walk more den fly
- When you hear da words “fundraiser” it means Zippy’s Chili
- You go to Maui and your luggage home includes potato chips, manju, cream puffs, guri-guri, and saimin from Sam Sato’s
- You know 101 ways to fix your rubbah slippahs
- You have someone in your family named “Boy”, “Tita”, “Bruddah”, “Sonny” or “Honey Gurl”
- You have a slipper tan
- You sometimes use your open car door as a dressing room
- “You like beef” has nothing to do wit wuts for dinner
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