{"id":1547,"date":"2008-11-18T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2008-11-18T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T03:00:49","slug":"no-aloha-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/18\/no-aloha-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"No Aloha for You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate when people take the &#8220;Drive with Aloha&#8221; thing to inappropriate levels.  If you&#8217;re on the freeway and it&#8217;s gridlocked and someone is trying to merge in at an on-ramp, sure, show some Aloha and let <em>&#8216;da bruddah&#8217;<\/em> or <em>sistah&#8217;<\/em> in.  It&#8217;s when people go out of their way to let you in and <em>cause inconvenience to everyone else around them<\/em> is where I draw the line.  Yesterday I was making a right turn from a side street onto a divided highway, and there was a space coming up in traffic that I could pull into.<!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Easy, right?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>As the space approached, I moved out into the merging flare and waited for the black Ford Ranger pickup to pass, so I could slide in behind it.  I waited, and nothing passed.  I slowed and turned to look further back, and the person had ground to a complete stop in a 45 MPH zone to let me in.  WTF?!  The person tried to wave me in, but I came to a complete stop.  Eventually, the person started moving again, and luckily traffic hadn&#8217;t built up behind her (she had one of those chrome <em>&#8220;girl noseriding a longboard&#8221;<\/em> emblems on her tailgate), so I did manage to get behind her.  She took what should have been a smooth, seamless merge and turned it into a stop for multiple vehicles!  Thankfully there weren&#8217;t cars stacked up behind her.  In actuality, this kind of behavior isn&#8217;t showing <em>Aloha<\/em>, it is showing <em>lack of consideration for others<\/em>!  You aren&#8217;t <em>helping<\/em> if you are inconveniencing even more people in the process!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate when people take the &#8220;Drive with Aloha&#8221; thing to inappropriate levels. If you&#8217;re on the freeway and it&#8217;s gridlocked and someone is trying to merge in at an on-ramp, sure, show some Aloha and let &#8216;da bruddah&#8217; or sistah&#8217; in. It&#8217;s when people go out of their way to let you in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-oX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}