Post #283340 by Psycho Tiki D on Mon, Feb 5, 2007 5:03 PM

How many of you have tirelessly attempted to explain to your family, friends, co-workers, strangers and anyone who will listen, what Tiki is and why you like it?

For example, my mother, bless her heart, although lives some distance away from me, has seen my collection and the best she has come up with in five years (actually, the only thing she has come up with) is a carved coconut monkey piggy bank.

Now you might think "cool, a coconut, carved like a monkey piggy bank" and I would grant you that if she wasn't really out looking. My mom is a thrift store junkie and I know if she took the time to pay attention she probably could have found some really cool stuff.

The same applies to the others; "friends, co-workers, strangers and anyone who will listen", I have seen it all in the department of "isn't that tiki"? Come over to my house, look at my Tiki Magazines, BOT, Tiki Quest, Hula Dancers and Tiki Gods, Tiki Road Trip books, or better yet, just look around my house at the stuff on the shelves and then go to the antique, thrift stores and flea markets with me and I dare you to ask me when you see a carved onyx stone Mayan bookend or chess set or Alaskan totem pole souvenir if it is tiki?

I honestly believe they just don't get it. Why? (Maybe my patience is wearing thin).

Psycho Tiki D (I know I am and I get it)

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2007-02-05 17:04 ]

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2007-02-05 17:23 ]