You know you're a local when......

• You avoid town on "Cruise Ship Wednesday"
• OR you spend as much time as you can in town that day, just to people watch
• Your son complains of all the "tourists" at the beach
• It's actually possible to schedule something around sunset - without worrying that you will miss the sunset.
•  Someone asks if you have a house here - and instead of explaining the whole crazy situation, you just say "yes"
• you say you live in Holualoa to the clerk to enter your address, you don't have to spell it for her.  (good thing, not sure I knew how to spell it)
• We actually "own" our own water sports equipment
• We are not quite so "white"
• You shower outside - or with complete strangers at the beach
• You change clothes in the parking lot - and never show any extra skin.
• You have to listen to you iPod in the car, because you know Bob Marley or some stupid love song will be on the radio otherwise
• You can give someone directions to your house - in the dark, in the rain and they make it to see you.
• Mahalo comes out instead of "thank you"

And the true test.....

• You see a Rooster in the middle of the road, you speed up......