252. On your bye-week you go to other people's football games.
253. You and your boyfriend go to a Marching Competition instead of Homecoming.
254. You spend hours a day trying to think up something good to put on the 'You know you're a band geek when...' list.RAWK!
255. You know your a band geek when you have dated someone from each section of the band... including the drummers.
256. You're so used to having things thrown at you at short notice that you assume there will be a pep rally or parade every Friday afternoon (and on all holidays) and are shocked when there's not.
257. You have competitions with who can hum their parts the best and loudest with the bus parked next to you at Festival.
258. You've spent a good hour reading 257 signs of being a band geek when you were convinced by about number 10. Hoo-hah! (actually, its only been 20 minutes)
259. You've been to your directors' house almost as much as you've been to your own.
260. You've been away from home so many times in the past month that your parents forget you live there. Parents? You mean your band director?
261. You hear a story of some random band idiot and automatically assume it was a drummer (or in extreme cases, a trumpet).
262. You've been in band so long that you've had almost every locker and still remember the combination.
263. You have more music than notes and textbooks combined.
264. You can recall at least 50 other band web sites off the top of your head.
265. More than half of your shirts are band related.
266. ...and you actually wear them...
267. ...on the same days as your section.
268. You know everything about everyone in band such as phone numbers, favorites and sibling�s names.
269. You find that most of your closest friends belong to band. Other people just can't relate.
270. Icy winds and sub-freezing temperatures at football games don't bother you. Who needs feeling in their toes? Marching band is worth it!
271. You are truly outraged when "opposing bands" presume that they can play "Louie, Louie" (or any other song, for that matter) better than your marching band can.
272. You spend as much time practicing your instrument(s) as you spend doing homework. Wrong notes are something that happens to other people.
273. You download songs that you play in band because they're so much better than the songs playing on the radio.
274. You want to be a band director when you grow up.
275. You rank your fellow band members in order of their nerdiness.
276. You become psychotic with rage upon finding out that you are only second on said nerdiness list.
277. When "Greensleeves" is in your repertoire, you start wearing green shirts to band in order to subconsciously convince your director to let you play it.
278. You feel slighted because a list such as this so inadequately expresses your love for band. What, so you want me to do an interpretative dance? 'Cause I will, you know.
279. After school every day you go directly to the band room and talk to your band director and band friends and order pizza with him.
280. You are angry that your band director doesn�t have the same lunch as you.
281. You have whole cds of drum cadences that you listen to over and over.
282. You aren't a drummer but you can play every cadence as if you were one.
283. The drummer in your class gives you a funny look after you play all the cadences on your desk (see above).
284. Your favorite memories and stories are from band trips.
285. You've developed an infatuation for your director.
286. You get mad if the desks in your row aren't straight.
287. Your favorite mode of transportation is yellow and seats 45.
288. You have no life and LOVE IT!
289. You have a farmer's tan from the last band camp.
290. (For trombones) You know what it feels like to have your slide frozen in place (see below). Reason #12 to play woodwind.
291. When your slide is frozen, you start thinking of alternate positions so you can still play most of your show.
292. You have nightmares about dropping your slide on the field.
293. You drive by your director's house over Christmas break, even though you know he's out of town getting married.
294. 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.
295. You switch instruments so often you don't know which section you belong to and develop multiple personalities.
296. When you're kicked out of the band room for lunch you have absolutely no idea where you're going to go. It's kind of like you're a sad, lost puppy - where some people feel really sorry for you, and other people just want to kick you. Yeah.
297. You can't picture yourself dating/marrying a non-band person.
298. All you have to do to con a new freshman/sophomore into doing something is say "Come on, its trumpet tradition."
299. People don't believe you when you say band chicks/guys are hot.
300. You skip prom because you have all-state/drum corps practice.