My favorite memory of lahinia was walking out of the Maui outlets on front street and out front was a young kama’aina guy was sitting playing his acoustic guitar .
(In Seattle it was common for street musicians to be playing with an open guitar case for donations.)
So I thought he was a kama’aina street musician, so I pull a $5 bill out to donate and since there was no case I waited till he was done with the melody he was playing and walked up and stuck it in the sound hole.
He started laughing and asked me
” why you do that brah ? “
Then I realized he was just some guy playing his guitar on front street
So embarrassing/-)
I said I thought he was a street musician like in Seattle..
He laughed again and said he was just waiting on a freind to meet up with ,,
I said I liked the song and hoped I didn’t offend him , that his performance was worth $5 to me and that I wanted him to have it cuz I enjoyed listening to him.
Later that day I saw him at a waterfall out Hanna way that people go swimming at. He points me out to his friends and says “ there’s that guy I told you about” and they and I started laughing . he came and talked with me for a few minutes and I felt really at home talking to him and a lot less like a tourist, almost felt like a kama’aina myself.
God bless the people of Maui.
“God bless the people of Maui.”
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