By Dennis Oda, Star-Bulletin
What's lurking behind that door?
On Fort Street, there are several concrete-conglomerate kiosks with metal roofs. They aren't large, maybe 6-by-6-by-8 feet. On three sides, there are pay phones . But on the remaining side, there's a locked door. Clearly, this isn't your average phone booth. What's behind the door? What are these kiosks used for? It looks like a simple
phone booth, but . . .
We'll make this WatDat multiple choice. Choose one answer:
1. The booths contain the huge piles of quarters the payphones take in. It's part of the phone company's new campaign to service payphones once every decade or so instead of once a week.
2. The little building is Doug "Wastewater" Woo's new government office, courtesy Charles "Grudgeholder" Toguchi. And Toguchi keeps the key, you bet.
3. The phone operator is hiding inside, so if you dial "0" and the line goes dead, you just have to yell really loud to get information.
4. Seen any homeless people around the mall lately? Maybe this is where they're hanging their hats.
5. Leslie Wilcox's private honeymoon getaway. Do not disturb!
6. It's where the governor will move the academic end of the University of Hawaii to make more room in Manoa for sports complexes.
7. Remember "Pee-Wee's Playhouse"? This is it.
8. The stand-in convention center, until the new one is finished.
9. It where the legislature puts all the extra cash from this year's state budget. (When Honolulu was Fat City, they used the extra dough to weigh down the reef runway to keep it from floating away.)
10. Where the government mall-maintenance employees keep their brooms and dust-pans and poker chips and such.
By Burl Burlingame By the way, the correct answer is No. 10.