Signs You've Been In Band TOO Long.....
1. When you hear music and start marking time.
2. When you walk in step with the person in front
of you.
3. When you try to guess the tempo of your favorite
song.
4. When all of your friends are in band.
5. When you don't mind changing clothes on the bus.
6. When you point out key changes and dynamics while
listening to the radio.
7. When you like wearing your uniform.
8. When every guy/girl you're interested in is in
the band.
9. When people ask you about your social life and
you say, "Oh, you mean my flute/trumpet/drum/etc.?"
10. When you consider your drill book a fashion
accessory.
11. When you've had a "trombone-ectomy."
12. When you practice your instrument more than
you talk to your dog.
13. When being mauled by a drum is a normal part
of life.
14. When people worry when they see you without
your instrument.
15. When "armed guard" means a girl with
a pole instead of a guy with a gun.
16. When band camp is FUN.
17. When you respond to "band fag."
18. When someone says the word "box" and
you automatically put your head up.
19. When you remember flats and sharps more easily
than your name.
20. When you dress the lunch line and urge others
to do the same.
21. When you're alone and you suffocate because
there's no one telling you to breathe.
22. When slides feel normal.
23. When your instrument has a name.
24. When you remember your instrument's birthday
and forget your mom's.
25. When making a line is your biggest accomplishment
of the day.
26. When marching backwards no longer reminds you
of ballet.
27. When you give your instrument a birthday party.
28. When you can make brown shoes look white.
29. When your uniform fits.
30. When black feathers become a fashion "do."
31. When you see your section more than you see
your family.
32. When everyone wants to kill the other football
team...and you want to kill the other band.
33. When you think evening practices should last
a half-hour longer.
34. When you accidentally call you band director
"Dad."
35. When you CAN sight-read.
36. When you can put your uniform on in less than
10 minutes.
37. When reeds taste good.
38. When you think your plume is alive.
39. When marking time is your favorite form of exercise.
40. When you have a neck strap/harness tan line.
41. When you subconsciously start practicing with
a pencil.
42. When numbers past 8 aren't important.
43. When you're more opinionated about the Madison
Scouts/Phantom Regiment rivalry than Clinton's politics.
44. When you role-step through the cafeteria so
you don't spill your lunch.
45. When you'd rather practice than read this list.
46. When letters past G aren't important.
47. When everybody fights like family.
48. When you root for the other football team to
lessen the time of your season.
49. When you know everybody else's personal business.
50. When you've practiced so long, the color guard
is together.
51. When you have no more secrets.
52. When you don't try to hide the fact that you're
in band.
53. When you subconsciously start humming your music.
54. When you know not only your own part, but everyone
else's too.
55. When you eat lunch with all of the other band
people.
56. When you start to eat lunch in the band room.
57. When you can tell who's in the bathroom by looking
at their sneakers under the stall.
58. When you resort to humming your band music to
fall asleep.
59. When wide open spaces stir up and urge to march
your show.
60. When you have a pin from every competition you've
been to.
61. When you friends that aren't in marching band
create a group called "non-marchers."
62. When you have 2 instruments--a junky one for
marching band and a good one for concert band.
63. When dreams of marching are constantly in your
head.
64. When you can't go to the movies on weekends
with your friends.
65. When you don't see your parents on the weekends.
66. When your free time is spent on homework.
67. When the drummers actually start to make sense.
68. When you wear your band shirt in public.
69. When you have your friends call you to attention
before you walk anywhere.
70. When your furniture is dented from banging drumsticks
on it.
71. When you have interesting conversations about
spit
72. When you carry your homework in your band case
73. When your work schedule revolves around your
band schedule
74. When you can march your show with your eyes
closed
75. When your band director starts calling son/daughter
76. When you call your band director by their first
name
77. When you have a room in your house only devoted
to music
78. When your pet enjoys hearing you play
79. When you know more Latin than English
80. When you know all your scales-minors, majors,
5ths, 8ths, ect�.
81. When your favorite movie is the state marching
finals
82. When your room is an exact replica of the band
hall
83. When the only awards on your wall are from band
84. When you actually hate when it rains on an all
day band function
85. When you know more about your band directors
social life than your own
86. When your social life includes memorizing music
87. When you know your school fight song by heart
89. When you know your show from five years ago
by heart, including music, sets, and what the colorguard wore.
90. When all of your school classes revolve around
band
91. When you call the band bus driver by their first
name
92. When you offer to paint a parking spot for the
directors
93. When you purposely get demerits so you can have
that extra marching time
94. When you wear your marching shoes to school
95. When your section gives you your own nick-name
96. When you actually know everyone's name in your
band
97. When you pay more for your instrument than you
do for your car
98. When you can play every instrument in the band
99. When you have a music book and you can play
every single tune
100. When you can make this list longer.
101. When you get the jokes on this list
102. When you can't go without playing your horn
without suffering from withdrawal
103. When you look forward to Band Banquet more
than your Senior Prom
104. When you can still play your horn for forty
minutes straight after being awake for 40 hours on a bus
105. When you can fall asleep against the window
of school bus even with freshman flutes singing behind you
106. When you don't mind freshman flutes singing
on the bus� as long as it's the show music
107. When you step on the field again after summer
vacation you think, "I'm home."
108. When you get up early in the middle of summer
to play in a Forth of July Parade� voluntarily
109. When you cry more after loosing a contest than
at the movie Titanic.
110. When seeing the sun rise and sun set standing
in the same spot on the same field doesn't seem odd
111. When you come back after graduation to watch
the band on their first day of summer band
112. When you practice the show so much people think
you've got eyes in the back of your head
113. When you save money for the Spring Trip instead
of a new car stereo
114. When you belive that the band director is always
right
115. When you have perfict pitch
116. When you've dated everyone in the band and
you wonder if you will ever date again.
117. When you think trumpet players have a right
to be egotistical.
118. When you can relate to more than 15 of these
things
119. When you have more stains from your instrument
than your biker next door neighbor has tattoos
120. When your Email listings include your band
directors and all graduates from the last three years
121. When you have a website dedicated to band and
music
122. When you can schedual all your plans by simply
stamping BAND on your day planner
123. When you go looking for things about band on
the internet
124. When you buy hand selected reeds
125. When the only catologs you get are band related
126. When you are more loyal to your instrument
than your country
127. When you go to the state competition when your
band isn't even in it
128. When you hang out with your band directors
129. When you have back to band parties
130. When the most exciting thing in your life is
marching band
131. When you march in the summer to keep up your
good marching skills
132. When you have good marching skills
133. When you "Plume Kiss"
134. When your homecoming mum says "Go Band!"
and not "Go Team!"
135. When you miss homecoming for a band function
and you don't mind
136. When all of your clothes have something to
do with band
137. When your section has its own symbol
138. When you can sing not only your show from three
years ago, but the other band's show that beat you
139. When you sit in ready position..... at the
dinner table
140. When your favorite CD is by (insert your band
name here)
141. When your room is decorated in Treble Cleffs
and Motzart Pictures
142. When you can carry something walking backwards
and it no longer seems hard
143. When you add "English Royal Guard"
to your job choices after you graduate high school
144. When you go trick or treating in your band
uniform and can think of something your uniform could be (Royal Guard Uniform,
Police Man Uniform, ect..)
145. When you look strange without a practice line
around your lips
146. When you invest in a mouth piece warmer
147. When you apply for a job at the local music
store
148. When you list your director as an emergency
contact
149. When you feel odd to wake up in the morning
when there is light outside
150. When changing your oil means opening up your
case
151. When you have your band director's home phone,
pager, and office number memorized
152. When your band director lets you use his car
for your date
153. When you start having replicas of band trophies
made for your room
154. When your favorite fashion accessory is your
band jacket
155. When you have to buy two band jackets to hold
all of your patches and pins
156. When you start calling the "football field"
the "marching field"
157. When you potition your school board to have
the name "football field" to "marching field" on your
school's map
158. When you know more about your school's music
library than the directors
159. When you were invited to your director's wedding
and his/her son's/duaghter's graduation
160. When you think of the incoming freshmen as
your children
161. When you call people who graduated years ago
for marching advice
162. When you get mad at a movie because the words
are covering up the music
163. When your mail starts arriving at the band
hall
164. When the band directors give you your own parking
spot with your name painted on it
165. When you think of sabatoging instruments at
Solo Contest
166. When you memorize the number of your uniform
and hat
167. When you buy your own uniform, hat and plume
168. When you can tell someone's band jacket just
by looking at the patches
169. When you no longer think of yourself as a person,
but as a dot on a drill book page
170. When you remember each year of high school
by the show that you marched in and not the grade
171. When you think you can tell what the drummer
is playing
172. When you can have an interesting conversation
with a tuba player or drummer
173. When you think trombonists belong in a band
uniform and not a straight jacket
174. When you have more instruments than you do
friends
175. When you can repair any instrument in the band
176. When the directors come to you for advice on
music
177. When your director names his first child after
you
178. When your director comes to your house for
dinner
179. When you go to your director's house for dinner
180. When you have a better band page than the school's
181. When you have plastic surgery to look just
like your director
182. When......
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