Treasure or Rubbish...

on Sunday we saw this sofa on the side of "owl road".  We talked about it then…so strange.

Since then other friends have posted pictures of it too.

Here in Hawaii the rubbish pick-up is FREE!  Twice a week!

Once a month they even have a "large item pick-up".

We've thought that this was so that people didn't let their rubbish pile up…

easy to put out for a free pick-up.

Hubby thought that maybe it fell off a truck

on the way to the dump, which is less than two miles away.

Maybe someone was sitting there watching the stars (not likely since it was cloudy).

(mahalo Ginai Hill for the photo)

We heard that later in the day it was gone…

another man's trash is another man's treasure must be true.

By Any Other Name...

My two older grands have always given me a bad time when I ask them to "put something in the rubbish" or "will you empty the rubbish". All of them (Lauren, Jack and Grey) all understand what I'm talking about. They're always asking why do I call it "rubbish"? My only answer has always been "that's what it's called in Hawaii".

I got to wondering about it, is it just something people say like "mahalo" or "aloha"?

Recently I noticed this sign along the freeway in Mililani...

and this listing in the telephone book...So, it's really not something that people just say. I would think that if there's a listing in the phonebook AND a sign, trash in Hawaii really is RUBBISH!