203. Jeff: He said that in regards to that - everything's based on agriculture, and the State's now trying to get Jeffets for agricultural products.
204. Doris: How can he say that? I thought everything was closing down.
205. Jeff: I think it's more diversified ag, not just sugar and pine. Sugar and pine are phasing out.
206. Christy: Yup, they're going to be paved over, too. He's always said that. That was one of his campaign things. We'll see what happens.
207. Jeff: He's a realist. He realizes that tourism is the backbone of the economy. There are a lot of interest groups...
208. Christy: Oh, excuse me (to Doris). Interest groups have always been around - we've been catering really to one interest group.
209. Doris: Yeah, the tourists.
210. Jeff: The Governor at one time said he'd like to make Hawaii like Oregon.
211. Doris: With Oregon?
212. Jeff: Oregon has zero population growth, due to the fact that they have strict laws.
213. Tom: Oregon's a right-on state.
214. Jeff: He basically said, we don't mind visitors, but we don't want you guys to stick around.
215. Doris: That's what he's trying to do now, isn't it?
216. Jeff: Tourism means jobs -- that's all they care about.
(Pause)
217. Christy: Yeah, but it has a lot of costs that people don't realize, a lot of costs that aren't figured in.
218. Doris: They couldn't get by without tourism.
219. Jeff: Right, we'd go right down the drain.
220. Christy: (To Tom) May I have the dressing, please?
221. Doris: This is so good. (Pause) You know that fire we ;saw when driving up to Sunset last week? (To Jeff)
222. Jeff: Yeah?
223. Doris: It destroyed sugar cane fields - I think they said it would have been the best crop they would have had. I think it was caused by someone driving by.
(Pause, passing of food around table).
224. Christy: Phew.
(Laughter)
225. Tom: Phew
226. Jeff: Phew227. Tom: Is there any more of that wine left?
(Milton pours wine.)
228. Doris: (To Christy) Where did you work last night?229. Christy: Oh, I was doing a mail-out for the Shoreline Protection thing. Because there's a hearing on Monday night. So Donald called me up.
230: Doris: Oh, that guy. He's weird. He can talk your ear off!231. Christy: (Laughs) I know. So I wound up doing the mail-out list, it took me till about 10:00.
232. Doris: He called you and asked you to do it?
233. Christy: Yeah
234. Doris: Don't they have a secretary?235. Christy: Oh no, it's a volunteer thing.
(Pause)237. Doris: You were in the office the whole time ?
238. Christy: No.
239. Doris: Who was there?
240. Christy: There was hardly anybody in there. No, well, there was. It was very quiet. I didn't see Wayne, Karen and Gary. Harry was there--he's crazy! (Laughs) (Past exchange rhythm)
241. Doris: Isn't he ? ! I like him.
242. Christy: I like Harry.
(Both laugh)
243. Doris: I like him a lot!
242. Christy: He had just been to Maui the weekend before.
243. Doris: On a job?
244. Christy: No. His father is part owner or something of this hotel in Hana, so he stayed there with his wife. He had Hawaiian music playing, and he was just talking about it. He didn't feel like working.
245. Tom: The crab is good.
246. Christy: Yeah.
247. Doris: Joe used to take care of a lot of that Shoreline stuff. He worked full time on it for awhile. He used to put off the office work and was doing all the shoreline. And now.
248. Christy: Yeah, not too many people are doing it. Like the hearing is Monday night, and they (referring to notices) just went out last night. It's not really that together.
249. Doris: You know who does most of it, I think'?
250. Doris and Mask in unison: Jack
251. Doris: Jack does. HC goes to all the meetings, he does everything. He does a lot of work, really a lot, he writes up all the papers and everything. He was the only one. He used to write up all the papers and stuff. . .goes to the legislature.
253. He likes it, he stays there all day.
254. Christy: Yeah, it's exciting.
(passing of food).
255. Jeff: (To Christy) What did you do with the onion tops? You threw them away, or what?
256. Christy: Yeah, why? Are you going to plant them?
257. Jeff: Naughty, naughty, shoreline protection! That's okay, I'll get them. (Goes over to garbage to retrieve onion tops)
258. Christy: (In Pidgin) Sorry, eh, I nevah know.
259. Jeff: I'll plant them out back.
260. Tom: Do you have more dressing?
261. Christy: Yes. (Gets bottle of dressing from counter, fills sauce tray with it).
262. Doris: Did you get that dressing at Safeway? They had it all they way up on the vegetable section. They were having a big sale -- had a big sign up.
263. Christy: No, they took it down when they saw me, probably
264. Doris: Just for you, eh?
265. Tom: Looks as though you fixed about the right amount of salad.
266. Doris: We have some more downstairs, that I made, just like this.
267. Christy: (Shakes head, in refusal) I'm getting there (pats belly).
268. Doris: May I have the dressing?
(Tom passes dressing to Doris).
269. Tom: (To Christy) What did you say?
270. Christy: I said I'm almost there, but am getting there, I mean full.
271. Jeff: (To Tom) Did you try the washing machine?
272. Tom: No.
273. Jeff: I fixed one part of it and I wasn't sure...
274. Doris: Mike used it, right after you did it, and I think it worked for him.
275. Tom: Those old belts were worn out.
276. Doris: No, it wasn't the belts.
277. Jeff: It was the timing.
278. Doris: The timing. His father fixed it.
279. Tom: Is that why it wouldn't spin?
280. Jeff: Yeah, strange, eh?
281. Doris: He took the whole thing apart by himself.
282. Christy: Who did?
283. Doris: His father. He took the timer out and kept playing with it.
284. Christy: He just did it by messing around with it?
285. Doris: He just did it.
286. Jeff: We just opened it up like we knew what we were doing, and we did it.
287. Christy: Had he ever fixed it before, a washing machine?
288. Jeff: He probably did.
289. Doris: He said he fixed his own printing machines at the shop.
290. Tom: With that business, you d have to, can't afford to call anybody else.
291. Jeff: This paper cutter is a big monster, about this big, eh. (Gestures) They had to call this guy from the mainland, brought him all the way down.
292. Doris: Really? From the mainland?
293. Christy: What was it? A papercutter?
294. Doris: There' s nobody here who fix it?
295. Tom: It'd cost him a grand just to get that thing fixed.
296. Doris: It seems crazy.
297. (It's a really good one, that's why. It's got these two buttons, goes like this. (Jeff makes noises, gestures, imitating machine).
298. Tom: What does your father do, Jeff? He runs a printing shop or something?
299. Jeff: Huh?
300. Tom: He runs a printing shop?
301. Jeff: Yeah.
302. Tom: Righteous.
303. Jeff: That machine cost him ten grand.
304. Christy: The papercutter, you mean?
305. Doris; Ten grand!
306. Christy: Whew!
307. Doris: I didnTt think they cost that much. It's not like the kind we looked for for the office, you know - twenty doflars (laughs). What's so good about it? I mean...308. Jeff: It's all hydraulic. In fact, .
309. Doris: Oh, you just push a button, and it cuts it, you don't have to use it by hand...
310. Jeff: There's a thing on top with a light that shows you how much you have. If six inches, it gives you six inches. Like that, a perfect cut. (Makes swooshing noise, imitating papercutter).
(Laughter)
311. Jeff:Righteous!
312. Christy: I'd hate to see that in the lawyer's office . (Referring to the office where she and Doris used to work).
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