352. You encourage your director to set out said tuner so you can try it out.
354. When introducing yourself, you say your instrument, row, and file whether or not it's marching season.
355. You make fun of people because they play on Ricos during concert season. VanDoren all the way, beeyotch.
356. You make fun of people because they play on VanDorens during marching season. WHY would anybody DO that?
357. You judge another player by the hardness of their reeds/size of their mouthpiece.
358. The song "Seventy-Six Trombones" bothers you, because everyone knows you can't just have ONE tuba in a band.
359. When non-band people have band questions, they come to you first.
360. You arrange for the entire band to sing "Happy Birthday" to your director. On the field. At the beginning of practice. ("Band, ten-hut!" "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUUU...") *Sniffle* Aww. How touching.
361. If you must go into the drum room (Cause your clarinet/flute has to be kept in there) you've learned to ignore the drummers as you run in, grab your instrument and leave.
362. You know the feeling of marching with one shoe in the mud because you lost it on the first backwards slide.
363. After getting your wisdom teeth out, all you can think about is not being able to play your trumpet for a week.
364. You write a three page newspaper article for the school paper.
365. Your director threatens to punch you in the face because you turned your head at a competition.
366. You volunteer to erase marching music.
367. You buy a $3000 Bach-Stadivarrius trumpet, and have to work off the $700 you owe to your parents .
368. You start working on your All-County solo piece a year ahead of time to you make sure you have it absolutely perfect before try-outs.
369. You have a broken knee cap and can barley move, but still come to school just in time for band class (last period of the day).
370. You actually know what "L'istesso Tempo" [same tempo] means, because you just frantically studied for the terminology quiz in band that day.
371. You go through you scales on you imaginary instrument during U.S. History class.
372. You form "The Trombone Club"/have friends that are in the club.
373. You join flag corps.
374. (see above) You endure running the 70-yard dash in 20 seconds back and forth many times in a row because the band can't get the drill right.
375. You wait outside the band room every morning for the band director to arrive.
376. All your white shirts and your white carpet have valve oil stains on them.
377. You know you're a band geek when you take the time to think of all of these "You know you're a band geek when..." scenarios.
378. You believe football is just the warm up for the band.
379. You have smacked a football player with a flag pole marching around the track.
380. You have ever pulled scarves out of your pants or briefs for a drum break feature.
381. If an administrator wants to find you, all they have to do is walk down to the band room.
390. You get upset because you have to miss the band car wash.
391. 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.
392. You wear your drill masters like slippers
393. You start singing songs such as "Hanukah in Jewish" (deck the halls with big menorahs, falala..) in 7/8 for fun.
394. Someone will start singing a section of a piece in the halls and everyone will jump in with their parts in [not so] perfect harmony.
395. You can have a whole conversation with each other by just singing lyrics from various Broadway musicals such as RENT and Chicago.
396. Your band directors automatically expect you to pick them up food every time you go to Subway, even if you hadn't talked to them before.
397. You go down to Subway in a jeep with 11 bandies in it...including 4 people in the trunk.
398. After school, you try and race your friends to see who can get to the band room first.
399. Your younger siblings can sing your show music forwards and backwards from all of the times you've practiced it at home.
400. You're reading this now instead of studying for exams