The curious case of the roadside Krispy Kreme

The road that leads out of Kapolei toward the beach is a two lane road that passes the high school and ends at the former gates of the decommissioned Barber’s Point Naval Station. And it desperately needs widening as it is guaranteed to be backed up in the afternoon and evening almost every day of the week. Along the way, a unique bunch of entrepreneurs set up shop. Some days you’ll see flower buckets, some days local fish catches and homemade pastales. Around graduation, you see a ton of lei and balloon stands. One weekend afternoon it even doubled as a garage sale as one family tried to unload some bikes that their kids had outgrown. But one item dumbfounds me – lately there have been a lot of folks selling Krispy Kreme donuts, stacked neatly on the table in the boxes they would get in the store. Except that the closest Krispy Kreme location, and the only in the state, is on Maui. Noel and I have both observed folks bringing extra boxes home to share with family while sitting in the Maui airport waiting to head back to Oahu. But I just have to wonder the path that the ones sitting on the roadside in Kapolei take. They must be like Twinkies and have a long shelf life. Maybe I don’t want to go there…