Auwe!

I enjoy read­ing June Watanabe’s Kukua Line col­umn in the Hon­olulu Star-Bulletin. Some­times she runs an auwe sec­tion where anony­mous read­ers point out shame­ful behav­ior they have witnessed.

Wednesday’s col­umn fea­tured a Hon­olulu fire­fighter from the Nimitz sta­tion who was seen rais­ing the US and state flags while he was out of uni­form. HFD per­son­nel are sup­posed to wear an HFD shirt, along with pants and shoes. He wasn’t wear­ing a shirt, but he was wear­ing rub­ber slip­pers. Auwe!

The fire­fight­ers from the Bere­ta­nia sta­tion are always prop­erly dressed to raise and lower the flags at Fort Street Mall by my office.

Thursday’s col­umn was a two-for-one deal with an ini­tial item about vul­gar van­ity license plates that slipped past the state’s appli­ca­tion process. Auwe!
There was another story about a man who parked his car at a stop­light by Cen­tral Mid­dle School to buy a plate lunch. He parked in the cen­ter lane of the Pali High­way. That’s a big auwe!

The Web has spawned a legion of sites devoted to report­ing rude behav­ior. Some Craigslist users post their auwes on the rant and rave board for their city. There are sites devoted to rude dri­vers, restau­rant patrons, employ­ees, and other topics.

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