bandlist

- You've had a duct tape experience
- Your earliest memories are of the chromatic scale
- Fun is playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" on a Tuba
- The last book you read was entitled "101 Concertos for Piccalos"
- You'd rather go to a symphony than a party
- every story begins with, "this one time at band camp..."
- you do calculas in 3/4 time and remember to subdivide the eighth notes.
- you have spent more time in the band room than in your own room.
- you keep a pillow and blanket in your band locker, just in case.
- you automatically brush the seat off when you sit down.
- your little brother can hum your marching show.
- when you don't go one day without seeing another band nerd.
- your watch is set to the clock in the band room.
- you enjoy riding school buses for long periods of time.
- you only go out with other band members.
- you meet band members from another school and ask to pet their plumes.
- when you have a neckstrap tan-line that is visible in your homecoming pictures.
- when you have band parties.
- when you know the guy who takes pictures of your band.
- when you know the order of the pep band folders.
- you keep half of your clothes in your band locker.
- you compliment other bands on their uniforms.
- when you can beat "the game."
- when your locker is in the band hall.
- you never want to go to Montana again, but you do anyway, because you like band trips.
- you have invented a marching band board game.
- you've run over a marching judge.
- when you hate the line "..And this one time.. and band camp..."
- when you don't know what it is like to go to a football game with out your instrument.
- when oboe players are attractive.
- you know your school's fight song by heart, the music, not the words
- when percussionists are no longer strange or scary to you.
- when your band is better than the football team.
- when your parents come to the football games to hear the band play, not watch football.
- when you can name all of the notes in an arpegiated chromatic scale on the tuba.
- when yuor 16th birthday party consists of your closest band nerd friends reminicsing over old remember the time in band/at that band concert/on that band trip...
- when you go to basketball games purely for the fun of playing pep band music.
- when your pep band wins awards at state basketball tournaments.
- your band has won twenty-one awards in one competition.
- you are not afraid to change into your concert uniform next to a highway.
- you are proud to be a band nerd
- you know or have ever played the piccolo part to the Stars and Stripes Forever
- you have ever used the excuse, "sorry I have band that night."
- you spend more than 8 hours at school during marching season.
- when your sockline fools people into thinking you are actually wearing socks.
- your hobbies are: band
- you are proud of your band letter on your letter jacket.
- your band letter is the only letter on your letter jacket.
- you know the guys at the music store by name.
- you see your director more often than any member of your family.
- you refer to inter-section conflicts as sibling rivalry.
- you come home right after school and your parents wonder why you are home so early.
- you know the difference between a sousaphone and a tuba and the difference between a euphonium and a baritone.
- you've gone to every football and basketball game and never had to pay
- you go to the Band Field to watch football games
- you have marched for more than one season
- you subdivide while talking
- you've been hit by a colorgaurd flag more than once.
- you're not grossed out by puddles of spit all over the ground.
- you go home to find drill markers in your pockets
- you make up instruments such as a piccalet.
- you watch parades on tv to see if they are in step.
- you have been in a nationally televised parade.
- you have been in math class and realized your tuner was still in your pocket from band the period before.
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- you can relate to more than half of the above list.
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