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mahina

(17,659 posts)
Thu Feb 17, 2022, 06:30 PM Feb 2022

Mainlander Stuck 4 Hours in Kihei Roundabout

Update: satire! Posted between “Billionaire Eying Kaho’olawe for Real Life Jurassic Park Attraction” and the story about an international chicken beauty pageant
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A visiting Oregon woman on her way to the grocery store was stuck for hours in the traffic roundabout near Kihei’s Safeway on Monday.

Karen Johnson, 43, of Portland thought she was simply running to the store to stock up her vacation condo when her vehicle entered the small circular roundabout that makes up the intersection of Piikea Avenue and Liloa Street.

“I never run across those circle thingies where I live,” Johnson said. “I kept trying to turn off but got scared at the last second over and over and over again.

“How do you get out of those things, anyway?” she continued. “I could never figure out which off-ramp went to the store, and every time I wanted to just give up and just turn right to exit, another car got in the circle and confused me. It reminded me of being on a merry-go-round as a kid.” She estimates that she entered the circle around 11 a.m. It wasn’t until her vehicle ran out of fuel at 3 p.m. that she was able to stop and exit the car.


https://mauiinsight.town.news/g/kahului-hi/n/65225/mainlander-stuck-4-hours-kihei-roundabout?fbclid=IwAR2_4G5-ja5TwbcUQdbrQJhJzm7P9Zqc63-uJkySVAPhI1b9N8FJOBsN338



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Mainlander Stuck 4 Hours in Kihei Roundabout (Original Post) mahina Feb 2022 OP
Poor thing though mahina Feb 2022 #1
Meanwhile.. Blue 808 Mar 2022 #8
Reminiscent of "MTA" by the Kingston Trio in the 60s. LastDemocratInSC Feb 2022 #2
Valley Isle's Hyperbolozed News? ramblin_dave Feb 2022 #3
... mahina Feb 2022 #4
We quickly adjusted to England's roundabouts and learned to love them! Karadeniz Feb 2022 #5
Circles are simple those already on the circle have right of way to get off IbogaProject Feb 2022 #6
We call them rotaries in MA. pidge Feb 2022 #7

mahina

(17,659 posts)
1. Poor thing though
Thu Feb 17, 2022, 06:32 PM
Feb 2022

I guess I haven’t been to Kihei in a while. They have a Safeway now? They have a roundabout now?

Anyway pua ting

Blue 808

(1,542 posts)
8. Meanwhile..
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 05:16 PM
Mar 2022

My daughter and son in law own a house about a block away from that Safeway.. my grandson's school bus drops the kids off at the community pool a block in the other direction.. he walks home and crosses that intersection almost everyday.. but I guess it's easier to cross straight across instead of going in circles... lol.. and yes, I see that the article is satire..

BTW.. if you want to see privilege and entitlement on full raw display.. take a walk through the Kihei Safeway.. it's not pretty..









LastDemocratInSC

(3,647 posts)
2. Reminiscent of "MTA" by the Kingston Trio in the 60s.
Thu Feb 17, 2022, 06:50 PM
Feb 2022
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Every day at quarter past two
And through the open window she hands Charlie a sandwich
As the train comes rumbling through!"
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