No Bananas allowed on the boat!!!!!

Lately, I have been having moments when I think, my life really should be a TV show. I find myself in the oddest situations. My latest one involved 3 Hawaiian boys and myself (1 hoele girl)in a boat, 8 miles from shore with a staled engine. One of the men, Shane is deep deep Hawaiian. You have to pay attention and concentrate when this man speaks or you just not understand brah! It started on a rainy day when Rob called me and asked if I wanted to go fishing with them. I thought ,"I don't really want to be on a boat in the rain but I feel like something interesting is going to happen so I'm in."
We get to kahana bay and meet up with Van and his 3 little boys. Once we get on the boat, one fo the boys is screaming, " I dont' wat the sharks to get me. I don't want to go." But being the adventurous and spiritual adults that we were we said a prayer and then told the boy he would be alright. So we take off. And the boy keeps screaming so we turn around and take them back. We take off again. And we get to the same spot where we turned around about 10 minutes prior and the engine stales. We get it started and we turn around again. We get to the dock and Shane says he can fix it. I say maybe we shouldb't go because I think the spirit is trying to tell us something. He says, "Where is your faith, we said a prayer. we'll be o.k." So we take off. We get about 7 miles out and the GPS stops working so we don't even know where the boey is that we are trying to get to. But the iphone knows everything so we get started again in the right direction. And then the engine stales AGAIN. But we didn't know Shane wasn't able to fix it until he yells at Wes, "Shoot the flare before the helicopter goes by." By the time Wes finds the flare gun and him and Rob figure out to shoot it, the helicopter is long gone.
Shane then says, "well, call coastgaurd." and that is when we looked at each other and thought maybe we really did need some help. It was still daylight and out phones had reception, we had a radio so I wasn't scared. We then proceeded to have a conversation about whether or not the coast gaurd would charge us money if we called them. And if anyone really knew the number to call. 911? possibly but we didnt try. Who wants to pay to be saved...we pay enough taxes.. so we have a snack but while we are getting the lovely lunchables out of the cooler we find a bunch of bananas.
Now most of you won't know this but bananas on a boat in Hawaii is bad luck. No bananas are ever allowed on a boat. And I now firmly believe in this superstition. Shane gets the little motor to work and we head in to shore at a speed that is compariable to my swimming speed and I am a pretty fast swimmer. After about a mile or so Shane got the motor to start and we took off. And to my great surprise we were headed straight for a pod of dolphins. I leaned over the front of the boat and watched 6 dolphins raced right in front of us. I feel like I could have reached down and touched one of those little fins sticking out of the water. We played withthem for about 15 minutes. They were jumping all over the place. Racing in front of us and the sides of the boat. I was a little giddy school girl that couldn't stop screaming.

The next day I went scuba diving on the North Shore. A lady started to eat a banana and 3 of us started to tell her she can't have bananas on the boat. So she had to go put them in the car. I wasn't about to be stranded on a boat 2 days in a row.

Here is some info that I found about the myth of bananas
Back before fiberglass and powered boats the Hawaiian men would go out in dugout canoes and fish for weeks at a time. They would always take Bananas. Well it happens that the Bananas would rot about the same time they would get to far out to really catch any fish. So they associated bananas as bad luck.

Back in the days of the transatlantic crossings by wooden sailing ships many hazards would befall the captains, crew and passengers. Disease, pirates, shipwrecks, storms, etc., claimed the lives of a good percentage of the captains, crew and passengers attempting the dangerous voyage. Needless to say, a transatlantic crossing in the 17th and 18th centuries was a very risky endeavor. Often the vessels would stop along the way in tropical islands to gather provisions such as food and water. There the passengers and crew would often purchase wooden crates of bananas from the locals and bring them aboard the ship. These crates would have all manner of critters in them such as bugs, spiders, vermin and snakes. These critters would make their way into the bilges of the ships, multiply, and then find their way into the captain's quarters. The captains circulated the rumor that bananas were bad luck in an attempt to keep the critters off the ship and out of their cabin. The crew and passengers were more than eager to follow suit because of the inherent risk of the crossing. So, if the captain announced prior to the voyage that bananas were bad luck and not allowed aboard the vessel, everyone complied. You must remember that these were the days of burning witches and the like, so superstitions were taken very seriously.