Thursday, June 28, 2012

Exhibit B

Further evidence that Hawaii is in fact, not actually part of America:

I'm a Citizens Bank customer, have been for the last three years.  I looked online to see if Citizens had a branch out here in Hawaii.  Nope.  No Citizens Bank here.  

I think that's fine, they didn't have a Citizens in Pennsylvania or in Utah when I lived in those places, so I figured I'd switch to Bank of America.  It is called Bank of America, so they should be anywhere in the U.S., right?

Wrong.  There is no Bank of America branch in Hawaii.  There is however, a Bank of Hawaii.  No First National Bank, but there is a First Hawaiian Bank.  

There you have it:  this "state" attempting to keep its residents (and their cash) as separate from the rest of the country as possible.  Thank goodness for direct deposit and cash back with my debit card.

2 comments:

  1. haha. This explains why so many of my Hawaii-born friends in college kept referring UT, or any other state, as "the mainland."

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  2. There is no Bank of America in Utah either. (But thank goodness. They are the worst thing ever created.)

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