402. Because you don't have a marching band, you join a fife-and-drum corp so you can learn something new and get to march in parades and see how much fun it is.
403. You know what key every instrument in the band is in and can transpose between them.
404. You can't figure out how you ever lived without band before you started playing your instrument.
405. Your "locker" is your slot. Tell me, what do YOU do when you find said kid who messed up the triangle solo at competition in your slot?
406. People wonder why you and your friends ALWAYS walk in step together.
407. You don't feel comfortable until you're in step.
408. You have dated someone from every section, and you�re wishing that the seniors wouldn't have to go, that way you could successfully make round 2 on dating all the saxophones.
409. You take it personally when your band director remarks that your note is flat.
410. You actually MISS the 4 hours of practice in concert season, and you hate that your metabolism has returned back to its normal state.
411. You don't get aroused when your director wants you to "F Around the Room"
412. When someone says "Justin" it's not for a person, it's for a cadence.
413. You wore out your Dinkles before you wore out your Nikes during football season.
414. Finger your parts. Come on, you know you want to. Rawr.
415. Valve oil is practically a bodily fluid.
416. You hear the rumors before the actual events occur.
417. The underclassmen get the ugly plumes. That's just how it goes. You best believe it, foo.
418. You want to be section leader so you can get out of formation to talk to your friends... er... check the horn angles.
419. You want to be section leader so you can sit on the end of the bleachers. Leg room is a signal of your power.
420. There are specific dances needed for certain cadences, chasers, and fight songs. Participation is NOT optional. Do not indict yourself! Yes sir!
421. Oh, you did DCI in high school? That's cool. It doesn't mean squat. Squats? I hate squats.
422. All you need to fix a woodwind is a lighter, a tissue, a piece of paper, and a pair of tweezers.
423. All the parties you have outside of band end up being band parties anyway. Who else would you invite? Your director's... mom?
424. When "Anyway You Want It" comes on in the car, you each sing your parts.
425-440: More from the university crowd. Rock on!
425. You hate Ohio State's marching band for one reason only: You are a woodwind.
426. You cried when you saw Morgan State's marching band. Nuff said.
427. You practiced your Harlem Shake so you could audition for Morgan State's marching band.
428. More than half the songs on your MP3 play list are band songs.
429. You hear your instrument in all symphonic songs. "Ooh! I hear a French horn! That's me!" or "Did you hear that bass clarinet stinger?"
430. You put the release date of Drumline on your calendar a month before the previews were on TV.
431. "Push it in" and "Pull out" are perfectly acceptable terms for tuning.
432. "Push it in" and "Pull out" are not pornographic terms.
433. You make friends with the T.A.
434. "8 to 5" is not a work day.
435. You can tell people didn't do band if they a) have bad posture b) walk with their feet out c) are not in step with the people in front or beside them.
436. You can clap, sing, and sizzle almost any rhythm put in front of you.
437. You have a specific diet for marching season.
438. You can remember your uniform number from high school.
439. You know who has that one now just by a glance.
440. You ask to be the chaperone on your high school band's trips the year after you graduate.
441. At least one of the pictures in your room is of you in a band uniform.
442. You don't have to ask why the drummers have rubber bands on their wrists.
443. You don't question when someone says they're a Boner.
444. The stands next to the band are reserved, too. For the band parents.
445. 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...
446. You pretend to be disgusted when someone brings it up (see above).
447. You already know what instrument you want your kids to play. Yours of course!
448. If I say "One-ee and-a two-ee and-a" you can draw a picture of it.
449. You know the security guard in the music school by name.
450. You remember drill from freshman year of high school.