- You suck on reeds during class
-You carry around a band folder, box of reeds, and cork grease
-You call yourself a band geek
-You can actually say "one time, at band camp" and then tell a story
-You talk about band!
-You actually understand The Domino's pizza joke "Don't eat with your oboes on the table."
-You think the hottest guy/girl you ever met is your drum major.
-You know how to write music.
-You know how to transpose.
-You always have a band song stuck in your head.
-Your letterman jacket does/will say only Band and Academics
-You tend to only like/go out with people in band
-You walk down the halls conducting.
-You can do the horn swing in your sleep
-Almost all of your friends are in band.
-People call you a band geek
-Your ultimate dream in life it to be able to play ever single instrument
-You want to do something with/for band when you grow up.
-You wear your marching shoes to homecoming
-You look forward to band class
-You consider band your favorite subject.
-You actually understand the jokes at this site (click it!)
-You can conduct Novena from memory.
-You say things like "It's like a chorale, only It's not."
-You know the key of each instrumet.
-You know how to play in every key on your instrument.
-You give people scale sheets and fingering charts.
-You sing to your friends on the phone.
-You walk around wearing a neckstrap
-Your biggest priority is to get a present for your secret santa in band.
-You answer to anything that sounds like "Band Atten-hut" with "hut!" (ex. Batters up...)
-You do band related activities (ex. Relay For Life) just to be with your friends.
-You know your band diector's middle name
-You call him by it.
-You treat him like a friend
-You consider putting a sign on the band room saying "The Official Band Geek Room."
-You write your fs like the forte sign
-You actually know and can pronounce pianissimo, ritard, etc.
-You can't spell anything but band.
-You know and can identify the "Flute Nazi."
-You give everyone a band-related nickname.
-You say things like "O, my lips are tingly."
-You hit on random band guys and call them "O David my love!" But ONLY band guys!
-You hang out in the band room during lunch.
-You actually understand score order.
-You have instruments that you don't know how to play.
-You make up songs about band members (ex. You can be, Dan Tretheway!)
-You give sections nicknames (ex. Flaggits and Tromboners)
-You have inside jokes with your section.
-You talk about band
-Your parents are trying to talk you out of being in band to save your sanity.
-You know everyones part in the whole band.
-You wear your marching shoes everywhere.
-You march down the halls.
-You sing band songs weeks after your concert.
-You have pages on your website dedicated to your instrument.
-You played your favorite song in band.
-You celebrate when you get melody.
-You celebrate when you have a "cool part."
-You celebrate when you get a song you've heard of.
-You make up dances to your band songs.
-People remind you of your band director.
-You have jokes with your band director.
-You look forward to trips with band BECAUSE they're with band!
-For your DAT results, you got Fine arts in the top 3.
-You call your instrument your friend.
-You stroke/pet it
-You take lessons to learn another instrument.
-You take lessons to improve your first instrument even though you know you are the best and/or perfect.
-You are proud to march down the halls before pep assemblies.
-Even when you don't have your instrument.
-You download cadences
-You will do anything, go anywhere... as long as its for band.
-You sit at the band geek table before school.
-You draw music notes and signs all over everything.
-You skrew your boyfriend outside the band room.
-You own more than 1 instrument and have a school instrument as well.
-You pass a thong around the band room.
-You name things after people in your band (ex. My nickel named Bob Fike)
-You have a website dedicated to band
-You go to band-related websites
-You want to go to Bob's Website!
-When people refer to your social life, you say "what?? Oh! You mean band?"
-Your life revolves around whether or not you have a band test.
-You talk about how your band director plays with his ears.
-You laugh at his dumb jokes about his ears too.
-You want to be in the school musical, only if you can be in the orchestra.
-If your not in the orchestra, you go around singing all the songs so everyone knows them before the show starts.
-You memorize your band director's "your best isn't good enough" speech.
-You memorize his other speeches too.
-You actually resite them to your friends.
-If you don't resite them, you talk about them.
-You've actually been to band camp and consider it the highlight of your summer.
-Spit rags/swab don't gross you out.
-Your Family is trying to talk you out of being in band to save your sanity.
-You think a national monument should be built honoring John Philip Sousa. Heck, they should just chip off one of those president heads and put it there.
-You call people Nips because you can't say nipples in the band room.
-You always start off on the left foot.
-Everybody in band fights like they're family.
-You point out instruments from the music in cartoons.
-Your feet are together, your stomach is in, your shoulders are back, your head is up, and your eyes are "with pride." 24/7.
-Your English teacher is discussing banned bookes and you think -"band books?"
-Your english teacher goes over vocab words and they talk about cliques. You look at your friends and say "band geeks" and they laugh with you.
-Instead of doing the "L = left" thing with your hands, you take one step forward to figure out which is right and which is left.
-You're feeling sick at school, but you don't go home until after band.
-You still and always will find "Sax-a-ma-PHONE!" entertaining.
-You find yourself drawing characters in uniforms with instruments.
-If your dog called you to attention you wouldn't faint out of surprise until the at-ease.
-You go into spasms if you aren't in the same room as your instrument for more than two hours.
-You play the fight songs for FUN!
-Normal people argue about the Vikings vs. the Packers, you argue about brass vs. woodwinds
-You can tune a sax. (AMAZING)
-You sit around in class and try to think of new band geek jokes.
-People call you Flute Girl, but only because you look and sound like her - you really play the trumpet.
-You've seen the entire band in their underwear.
-You can sit or hold hands with any band member of the opposite sex, but it doesn't mean anything - you're just cold.
-The band director makes you do push-ups for playing "Iron Man" too often.
-Also for going in the girls cabin at band camp... *cough brian cough*
-You compose music in all of your classes and during lunch.
-You start humming a show tune from three years ago and your friends join in with their respective parts.
-You stay after school or during lunch to play around with songs with your other band friends
-You get mad when your band director tells you to leave
-You don't like people because they don't like band.
-The ring tone on your phone is an excerpt from your show
-You go into a field and wonder why there are football players there.
-You wonder why band doesn't have their OWN bathroom.
-Especially when the choir does (everyone in our school knows it now!)
-You hate American Pie because if you mention band camp to a non-band member, they ask you if you've ever stuck a flute up your... yeah (even though you're a guy), and they still think they're really being original with that one.
-When people make said joke, you threaten to stick them in the old tuba case.
-You know someone who got locked in a tuba cage *Cough Mattie Cough*!
-and enjoyed it...
-You know what a piccolo trumpet is.
-and you want one
-You plan a military coup of the band when your candidate doesn't win Band President.
-You can't see the material on your letterman jacket because it's so crammed with patches from honor bands
-The word "fluglehorn" doesn't send you into a fit of giggles.
-You've spent more money on reeds than on food.
-Your most used turn-down line is "Sorry, I've got band that night."
-You can identify any instrument and who it belongs to by it's case.
-You know where every single dent in your instrement came from
-or There isn't a single dent in your instrument because you flip out any time it gets one, so you sprint to the repair shop right away to get it fixed. Bill the repair man won't care if it's 11:30 at night, right?
-Having a metronome has gotten you into trouble. Bomb scare my butt.
-When your instrument is getting searched for the bomb threat, you think "Why would I hide a bomb in my precious instrument?"
-At church you march up to communion in the attention position instead of a praying position.
-You tell the incoming freshmen "This one time, at band camp" stories... like the time that one guy caught his car on fire . and act it out in detail like it happened an hour ago, and your best buds laugh so hard they cry.
-You and your friends march your show from 2 years ago in gym while humming your parts as you go.
-You take out your music in gym class to sing your parts.
-You are used to the wierd looks you recieve while doing this.
-The word "fingering" doesn't make you think gross thoughts.
-Tounging doesn't either.
-You think of halloween costumes that involve pieces of your uniform (or all of it for that)
-but you'd never actually do it, you'd get it too dirty!
-You've seen a trumpet player's lips get stuck to his mouthpiece because it was so cold outside.
-That trumpet player was you...
-When a teacher yells at you for talking in class, it's usually because you were talking about band.
-You have certain songs that your bus sings on every bus ride, and you have to supress the urge to belt them out on non-band bus rides (Yellow Submarine + Can't take my Eyes off you! ).
-You can cuddle up to and/or share a blanket with anyone in band, and nobody will assume anything about the status of your relationship
-You can walk up to anyone in band and fix any part of their uniform without saying anything other than giving them your instrument and saying, "Hold this."
-You and your friends gossip about the instructors' personal lives, and somehow find it more entertaining than gossip about people your own age.
-Yet, you do still enjoy gossiping about people in band, and you know that if you're in band, your personal life is no longer personal, and there's no point in trying to keep it that way.
-You gossip about things that happens in the choir room and laugh about how a band geek wouldn't do it!
-You never question the unwritten rule that nobody other than percussionists can go inside the drum closet
-You cried when you found out that you made drum major.
-You even make a website about the candidates (look ^ 4 Bob's site!)
-You get bored in class so you pick random people who aren't in band and decide what they would play if they were based on their personalities.
-Tuning out the trumpets is second nature to you
-You say things like "What kind of gun to you use the trumpet players?" *Cough Lindsey Cough*
-When you have kids, you are going to MAKE them be in band! Carry out the band-geek-ness!
-It's 2:00 in the morning and you think: "Hey great, I still have time to practice my trombone before school starts!"
-You actually DO practice your trombone at 2:00 in the morning because "no one will care if I use a mute, right?"
-You use your white marching band overalls to be an Oompa Loompa for Halloween, (complete with green hair, mind you)
-Your friends refer to you as "the devil in a band uniform."
-Holding your section leader's instrument is considered an honor.
-You say "I have a crush on the drum major" and you are automatically friends with the whole flute section.
-Thinking the drum major is hot is normal.
-Stalking the drum major is normal (and easy... I mean, you see him 24/7).
-You stick your tongue to a frozen pole because your drum major told you to.
-you have dated someone from each section of the band... including the drummers.
-You've spent a good hour reading 257 signs of being a band geek when you were convinced by about number 10.
-You hear a story of some random band idiot and automatically assume it was a drummer (or in extreme cases, a trumpet).
-You have more music than notes and textbooks combined.
-You can recall at least 50 other band web sites off the top of your head.
-You download songs that you play in band because they're so much better than the songs playing on the radio.
-You aren't a drummer but you can play every cadance as if you were one.
-You spork the marching field at band camp to irritate your rival band
-The then try to turn your beautiful P into a B.
-Your are cracking up when it doesn't work!
-Your favorite memories and stories are from band trips.
-You've developed an infatuation for your director. (Thats more than a band geek. I mean, he's like DAD! lol)
-You get mad if the desks in your row aren't straight.
-When considering the weight of any object, you measure it multiples of the weight of your sousaphone or tuba. For example, your little brother weighs about two sousaphones.
-You speak more than 25 words in Latin, French, and Italian (poco meno moso, anyone?)
-You've ever been run down by a tuba (or quads).
-You've invented a new acronym for the order of sharps.
-Forget fingernails on a chalkboard: out-of-tune flutes make you cringe.
-You saw Drumline more than once, even though it was that bad.
-You want to make a shirt that says Front: "BAND GEEK", BACK "FIKE OWNZ ME!"
-You've ever tried to play two instruments at once.
-You have ever used cork grease for chapstick.
-As a senior, you have your freshman, and are proud of how well you've taught them tradition.
-You're proud of your "Most Improved" award from band camp!
-You lose your voice from screaming at competitions
-You know how to make your own slide/valve oil.
-You've ever been sent to find a gock and actually know what your looking for
-When non-band people have band questions, they come to you first.
-You buy a $3000 Bach-Stadivarrius trumpet, and have to work off the $700 you owe to your parents.
-You go through your scales on you imaginary instrument during U.S. History class.
-You believe football is just the warm up for the band.
-You think that people are going to stop coming to see the Football team (admit it, they suck), but to see the band (y not?)
-You fall asleep in the band room after getting home from a competition and you wake up the next morning in a tuba slot...With a tuba and the kid who screwed up the triangle solo.
-You can have a whole conversation with each other by just singing lyrics from various broadway musicals such as RENT and Chicago.
-You can't figure out how you ever lived without band before you started playing your instrument.
-You actually MISS the 4 hours of practice in concert season, and you hate that your metabolism has returned back to its normal state.
-Your director knows and makes jokes about your personal life (ex. Mr Sutton's comment about Chris puching a locker because I can play in D flat better than him)
-You want to be section leader so you can get out of formation to talk to your friends... er... check the horn angles.
-All you need to fix a woodwind is a lighter, a tissue, a piece of paper, and a pair of tweezers.
-You ask to be the chaperone on your high school band's trips the year after you graduate.
-At least one of the pictures in your room is of you in a band uniform.
-You don't question when someone says they're a Boner.
-Or when they say they have one for that.
-The stands next to the band are reserved, too. For the band parents.
-On long band trips, you know what's going on in the seat ahead of you, because you did it on the last band trip...
-You pretend to be disgusted when someone brings it up.
-If I say "One-ee and-a two-ee and-a" you can draw a picture of it.
-There is at least one person in the band you refer to with a shudder. *Cough Eric Cough*
-You rename your band songs to relate to you (EX. From: Fantasy for band TO: Fantasy for Eric)
-Conversations don't get interesting until the topic of "band" comes in.
-You can walk into your junior high school when you'er a senior and you band teacher still knows you by sight, name, and what instrument(s) you played.
-(Woodwinds) You freak out every time someone calls you a "field ornament", and still hold strong to the fact that brass sucks.
-(Flutes) You felt a lot better after seeing American Pie 2 just so that you could get even with the trumpets for saying "And this one time, at band camp..." one too many times.
-You have perfected the art of playing with a broken, torn or rippled reed.
-You can mentally replay every song in your bands repertoire from memory, down to the trumpet solo.
-Your reed is so well used that your band director begs you to throw it out
-After said throwing out, you hold a funeral, and build a coffin for your reed.
-You offer to carpet the ceiling of the band room so your solos will echo less.
-You offer to vacuum the carpeted ceiling of the band room, so your solos won't echo.
-When you saw the movie "Drumline" and felt some sort of joy that a movie intereprets band as a sport.
-You were upset when you found out that Drumline wasn't playing at your local theatre.
- You can conduct in 1/1, 2/2 (or 2/4), 3/4, 4/4, and 5/4 with little effort.
-and you're a sophmore (or freshmen for that).
-You know what a tritone is.
-You have all 84 major, minor and natural modal scales memorized and can play them on cue
-You computer desktop picture is a picture of your marching band, and you can find yourself in the picture with little effort
-Despite the fact your school doesn't have an orchestra anymore, you learn how to play cello.
-The whole band is on your buddy list
-You get bored and play air violin.
-You only visit FanFiction.net to read the Marching Band section (in Misc).
-During silent reading time, you try to pursuade your teacher to let you read your music.
-Your pet(s) run away when you open your horn case.
-You know the difference between a french horn and a melliphone (or as Mr. Letterman says "Mellaphophone").
-You trace back your family history with what instrument they played.
-You spend Friday night watching band videos.
-You train your "Groupies" (little kids) how to march.
-You start relating your horoscope to upcoming band competitions and events.
-You don't look in the classifieds for cars. You're looking for a new private instructor.
-You know how to insert the bocal of a bassoon into a trombone lead pipe to produce a "tromboon" (an instrument made infamous by PDQ Bach, sounding something like a badly pitched lawn mower).
-A friend of yours, who is learning the bassoon, learns that if you finger the lowest note, and someone else sucks on the bell (like a bong), it produces the overtone series of unpleasant squawks, and subsequently runs around the music building/complex/suite yelling, "SUCK IT!" and shoving his bassoon in anyone's face.
-They also learn that if you finger the lowest note and stick a rubber glove to the top, IT INFLATES!! (ok mrs. church told me that!)
-You've been yelled at for taking someone's practice room and putting there stuff outside it on the floor, even if you did't do it.
-You mistakenly spell it "spinal CHORD" on your biology exam (not spinal cord, as you should have spelled it).
-Your flute has its own insurance policy.
-The idea of getting a car your junior year is wonderful because it means you can hang out in the band room longer because you don't have to catch the bus
- You hardly ever refer to people by their real names; you call them whatever nick name they were given freshman year.
-All your non band friends hate you because the conversation always turns to band stuff.
-No one calls your mom Mrs. Smith - they call her Mommy Smith.
-No one calls your dad Mr. Limbacher- they call him Mr. Monica.
- You know the gross joke behind each sections band t-shirts. (Woodwinds Finger Fast, Trombone Kama-Sutra: we do it in 7 positions, Kicking brass, Rule one for safe sax: always use protection).
-You have no idea where anything is in your room except for all your band music, drill books from all years you were in band, your concert clothes, band shoes, and both of your instruments.
-You've heard of "Lusty Nuts" and don't think anything sick.
-An armed guard means a girl with a flag not a guy with a gun.
-You always walk in step with your friends.
-and run sometimes too.
-You classify you friends as either "band-friends" or "non-band-friends."
-The Non-band catergory is smaller.
-Being mauled by a drummer is an everyday part of life.
-Walking a stright line is easy, NOW!
-Your uniform fits!
-It's slimming (or so you think)
-You see your section more than your family
-And you don't care
-You think practices should be 1/2 and hr longer.
-The smell of the track reminds you of band.
-Marking Time is your favorite excersize.
-You have a hard time counting w/out ands.
-You roll your heels through the cafeteria so you don't spill your lunch.
-You laugh at other people that do the same.
-Numbers past 8 aren't important.
-Letters past G aren't important.
You actually forgot the alphabet after G and you have to sing that annoying song to remember them.
-You don't hide that you're in band!
-WHY WOULD YOU??
-You eat lunch in the band room.
-Drummers make sense.
-You are used to certain drummers hitting the snare really hard our of no where.
-You don't mind wearing your band shirt.
-You own more than 3 different band shirts.
-You can make this list longer.
-You try to
-You get mad when non-band people don't understand you.
-You get these jokes
-You can play the national anthem but you can't remember the words.
-You get angry when "preps" walk in step because they're taking your thing.
-You make up excuses just to visit the band room.
-You think the band sings better than the choir
-You actually do.
-You get upset thinking about your instrument in the repair shop.
-You want to go to This site and see what instrument you are!
-You have a drum key on your key ring, and you don�t play percussion.
-You play golf with band golf balls.
-You get upset at band members who can't come up w/"You know you're a band geek when..." jokes that make sense.
-You have a chromatic watch.
-You never take your neckstrap off.
-You go to random search engines and type in band geek.
-You actually think these definitions are funny.
-You will actually try the things at this site.
-You watch football games simply to see the marching band's half time show
-You want to join the Marines simply so you can be in their band.
-You think marching band should be considered a fall sport.
-You collect quotes spoken by your band teachers and other band members.
-Over half your sentences have the word band in them.
-You go through marching band withdrawal
-You scream "I want my clarinet back," when you've only been separated for 24 hours!
-You've never missed a game but still don't get the rules.
-You amuse yourself by playing color guard with your clarinet or flute or trombone
-"I'm in band" is an excuse for anything.
-You think that A comes after G
-You compulsively buy anything with your instrument on it.
-Being able to do at least five things simultaneously no longer seams impossible
-You've actually looked up marching band web sites on the Internet
-Basketball games are really Pep band games.
-You go to parties with your band director.
-You know your band director's birthday.
-You stay up until 3 in the morning and your band director's there.
-You play foosball with your band director at 1 in the morning.
-You get disappointed when you find out there are only 4 home football games to march at.
-Even when you only had 5 this year.
-You're even more disappointed because you can't spend as much quality time with your band director.
-You get upset when people call you a "band nerd."
-You yell back "Its band GEEK!! Get it right!"
-You don't understand why being in band is a bad thing.
-It isn't.
-You remember all the names of every song you've ever played in band.
-Everything reminds you of "One Time At Band Camp..."
-or any band thing for that.
-1-2-3 BAND WINS!!
-You're up for more than 1 thing for band elections.
-You win more than 1...
-You remember every little detail of al of your band trips.
-You say things such as "Fike Ownz Me" and "Property of C.T. Sutton.
-You run down the halls to see your chair test results.
-You can barely write 4 sentences for English, but when it comes to band, you could write at least 20.
-You have to write sentences including vocab words and half of yours are about band.
-You know odd facts about your band director.
-You write them on the board in the band room.
-You give your band director a nickname (ex. Turbo Tobey).
-You want to put "Don't mess with my spirit stick" on a T-shirt.
-Winning/Stealing the spirit stick is like getting a 1 at festival.
-You know that a 1 is good.
-You give lessons on your instrument.
-and not just for the money.
-You think "Why would your parents have to MAKE you be in band?"
-Getting 1st chair is the best part of the day.
-Your parents go to the band room to pick you up because that's where you're expected to be.
-After you do laundry, you notice a bunch of nickels with stars on them.
-Tack meets remind you of band.
-You make little men w/instruments out of starbursts.
-You have played your cell phone ring tone in band.
-Everyone programmed into your phone is in band.
-You know strange quirks about band members (ex. Bob's helmet)
-You spend your free time trying to remember the name of your band songs.
-You draw realistic pictures of your band director.
-You hang pictures of your band director in your locker.
-You email pictures of your band director to your friends.
-The corkboard in your bedroom is coverd with band-related pictures.
-Blue lake is your 2nd home.
-You don't mind having to wear a gay uniform.
-Hey! You're with your instrument.
-The band room is your 2nd home.
-You don't mind Bob and AJ
-Your class ring must have band on it.
-You were even thinking of getting woodwinds on 1 side and brass on the other.
-You get PMBS (Pinckney Marching Band Syndrome)
-You've memorized your band director's phone number.
-At Home
-Your band director tells you to lay off practicing.
-You're a freshman and you march better than seniors.
-You secretly want your band director (*cough* AJ *cough*)
-That includes the fantasies
-You about having sexual relations w/your band director.
-Then one of your friends sings "Lets get it on."
-You get hot flashed watching AJ march...O baby O baby!
-You wouldn't miss a marching game or concert for anything.
-You call them marching games.
-You wouldn't "fornicate" with your instrument for fear of breaking it or making it dirty.
-You know band member's sleeping habits (ex. Brian's Sleep Stripping).
-Bob playing trumpet doesn't wake you up.
-You're a pyromaniac but you'd never put fire near your instrument.
-You get mad at your band geek friends who date non-band geeks.
-You only make out w/your band geek boyfriend in the official band geek room (band room) or on band related trips.
-You like to steal the music note confetti.
-You combine pictures of Conan O'Brien and your band director in your free time.
-You try to count (not in music) but accidentally start using the names of insruments for numbers.
-You write I love band (I *heart* band) all over.
-The band set-up turns you on. (*cough* Nikki *Cough*)
-You count the days until band camp. (*cough* Lindsey *cough*)
-That is the only *fun* in your summer.
-You think anyone who quits band is evil.
-You send your "hit man" Uncle Louie after them.
-Your hit man is AJ
-You like the VH1 save the music commercials!
-The only "foriegn" object that has touched your lips is your mouthpiece.
-You say thigs such as "If you can't beat 'em, use your instrument" and "You can't beat me up, my instruments bigger than yours."
-You actually believe them.
-Someone says flutes suck and you say, "I don't play flute."
-You'd never disown your instrument.
-You wanna *go boink Fike all the doo dah day!* (*=song)
-You form an "I love band" (I *heart* band) cult.
-You LOVE the fact that BAND was your last class of the year!
-Your first and FAVORITE final was BAND!!
-Your favorite superhero is "Turbo Tobey!"
-You use your white marching band overalls to be an Oompa Loompa for Halloween, (complete with green hair, mind you)
-Your friends refer to you as "the devil in a band uniform."
-Holding your section leader's instrument is considered an honor.
-You say "I have a crush on the drum major" and you are automatically friends with the whole flute section.
-Thinking the drum major is hot is normal.
-You're a flute player but you march drums because you want to be special.
-You've been in a drum corps.
-You want to be drum major.
-You're a freshman and you worship the seniors.
-You've been on a band bus over night.
-You start cheers on the band bus.
-People follow.
-You sing too
-You bring your guitar to band camp
-and Relay for Life
-You've been on band trips out of state.
-Out of Country too (TORONTO)!
-You've watched movies on a band bus.
-and one of them happened to be a fireplace (FIRE IN A BOX!)
-You've fallen Asleep on the band bus and people did things to you.
-You enjoyed freshman initiation because it let people know that you're a freshman, not a 6 year old!
-You've had a solo in a game/parade.
-You've had more than 1 per game/parade
-You've been in more than 1 parade in the same day.
-Your band's been on TV.
-You've missed major life events for band camp/practice
-You've ignored your "significant other" for band.
-You've convinced your "significant other" to join band.
-You met your "significant other" in band.
-You've brought friends into band.
-Or at least band events.
-You were shocked that I said you had to bring your friends into band... THEY ALL ALREADY ARE!!!
-You've gone through more than 1 band director (4 here)
-You've had to do push-ups because you were late to rehearsal
-because you were on time!
-You had to run laps because you forgot your charts.
-Woodsucker isn't a dirty thing (just a clarinet or sax)
-You've heard the phrase "I suck big wood" and you just think "Bass Clarinet."
-You call your band director by his 1st name
-Or middle name for that
-You call him it to his face.
-You've been acused of freshman abuse.
-You've attened rehearsals before or after school started or ended.
-An 8 Hour day camp is not long enough.
-It's just a light workout.
-Marching band should be counted as P.E.
-You have tan lines associated with your instrument (ex. flutest friend line or drum harness line)
-You did/are going to choose a college based on how well their band is.
-You've marched to a tempo of 200 or higher.
-You've high stepped
-and not just for Bob
-someone mentions a word from a title of last season's song repertoire, you have the song in your head for the rest of the day
-You consider your version of songs better than the original
-You dont think flags should be part of the band.
-Severely damaged your instrument during a game/parade/show
-and You cried
-You've Bathed with your instrument (for the purpose of cleaning)
-You've lost a slide/mouthpiece/tuba bits/ligature/lyre/music/etc on the field
-You obsessively polish your instrument every free second you get
-You've played in the rain
-On a woodwind
-You've played when you were sick
-You're a legend in your band.
-You've done an instrument swap.
-You're section's had a theme song.
-Your section's given you a dirty nickname (nipples)
-You have last years show in your head right now.
-The heels on all your shoes that are broken in naturally rolled.
-You think people who have never been in band are deprived.
-You find it difficult to impossible to imagine life without marching band
-You've plotted the destruction of the other band.
-You "sporked" their marching field.
-OR you were back at the cabins "keeping watch"
-You have thrown water balloons at the other bands bus/buses.
-You talk about things around "normal" people, get funny looks, and say, "It's a band thing"
-You learned everything you need to know about life from band.
-You want to name your children Harmony and Melody.
-Screw thinking the drum major's hot... you ARE the drum major!
-It bothers you when your drum major say "Band Right Face" and it sounds like "Band Parade Rest!"
-You have a Woodwind & Brasswind catalog stashed in every room of your house.
-You hit on the girls from the other band at band camp because the ones from your band know you too well.
-You have your own band website.
-You will go to mine, PHS Band Cult!
-You refer to yourself as a Fighting Pirate (or w/e your mascot is).
-You can do any drill without messing up once.
-Your section leader wants you to memorize your music and march w/out a lyre, and YOU DID!
-He didn't have to tell you to.
-It's a sin to wear white socks to a concert or game.
-You've had a crush on every guy in the band at least once.
-You hate the flags.
-You don't understand why they'd give up their instruments to twirl a boring flag.
-You've been hit for not bringing a pencil
-The hitter was Bob.
-You will never forget your freshmen initiation.
-You pay more for your instrument than for your car.
-You are in the bandroom 99.9% of the time... even when its locked.
-You got charged with breaking into the band room.
-Your director got them dropped.
-If someone asks you how far you have gone with someone's "instrument" you tell them that you have spit, fingered, blowed, and tounged many times.
-While filling out an application there is a section for the arts and it says select up to 4 which you have participated in (out of about 10) and you end up with 5.
-Same application in the sports section it says select up to 10 that you've participated in (out of about 50) and you only pick 1.
-Your biggest pride is your mock award from band camp.
-Forget the Victoria's Secret catalog, the Woodwind and Brasswind Catalog makes you happy!
-The highlight of you day is finding out there is a sale at Woodwind and Brasswind.
-You've been to Blue Lake enough times to understand the jokes on this page