1/27/2008

Applications Needed

Another weekend in Honolulu endlessly wandering up and down the streets waiting with mainland visitors and Japanese tourists at street corners waiting for the lights to change, I walked along the sidewalk by the beach looking for a reason to snap a picture.

I had already found a really nice looking chopper outside a restaurant on Kuhio street and quickly snapped a shot while trying not to appear too "touristy". The hog was probably a rental but still was an attention grabber and thought of Boudreau covered up in the garage back home in 30 something degree weather.

As I arrived at the beach, I thought about maybe taking pictures of the homeless guy digging through the trash or possibly of some other social statement of life's injustices and even maybe the ever present chess players at the covered picnic tables but nothing really got my attention until I looked out across the beach.

You know, some of us do NOT have much room to talk (I'm including myself here) when it comes to physiques but for crying out loud, we DO have some idea of what's appropriate and what's not. Well, here it is. There are just some things you ought to have to fill out an application for and this is one of them. Hey, even charge a fee or license ($ 200 at least) to wear one of those things and an extra hundred bucks if your gut covers it up. What's fair is fair!

Speedo

That's just wrong on so many different levels.