You Know You've Been in Band Too Long...
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When an "armed guard" means a girl with
a flag, not a guy with a gun.
- When you don't remember your boy/girlfriend's birthday but remember
everything from the opener of your freshman year.
- When every time you drive by somewhere, you remember a band competition.
- When you hear music and start marking time.
- When you walk in step with the person in front of you.
- When all of your friends are in band.
- When you try to guess the tempo of your favorite song.
- When you don't mind changing clothes on a bus.
- When you point out key changes and dynamics while listening to the
radio.
- When you like wearing your uniform.
- When every girl/guy you are interested in is in band.
- When people ask about your social life and you respond: "Oh,
you mean marching band?"
- When you consider your drill book a fashion accessory.
- When you practice your instrument more than talking to your family.
- When you remember every fast food place around a competition.
- When being mauled by a drummer is an everyday part of life.
- When people worry when they see you without your instrument.
- When band camp is FUN!
- When you remember flats and sharps more than your own name.
- When you dress to the lunch line.
- When you urge other people to dress to the lunch line.
- When your instrument has a name.
- When everyone wants to kill the other football team.... and you want
to kill the other band.
- When making a line is your biggest accomplishment of the day.
- When marching backward starts to remind you of ballet.
- When you like to polish your shoes.
- When your uniform fits.
- When plume feathers become a fashion "do."
- When you see your section more than your own family.
- When the most popular people you know are the field commanders.
- When you think evening practices should last a half-hour longer.
- When you accidentally call your band director "Dad."
- When you CAN sight read.
- When reeds taste good.
- When you can put your uniform on in less than 10 minutes.
- When you think your plume is alive.
- When marking time is your favorite form of exercise.
- When you have a neck strap/harness tan line.
- When numbers past 8 aren't important.
- When you roll step through the cafeteria so you won't spill your lunch.
- When you'd rather practice than read this list.
- When letters past "G" aren't important.
- When you don't try to hide the fact that you are in band.
- When you root for the other football team to lessen the time of your
season.
- When you subconsciously start humming your music.
- When you know not only your part, but everyone else's too.
- When you eat lunch with all the other band people.
- When you start to eat lunch in the band room.
- When wide open spaces stir up an urge to march your show.
- When you resort to humming your show music to get to sleep.
- When your friends who aren't in marching band create a group called
the "non-marchers."
- When you have two instruments--a junky one for marching band and a
good one for concert band.
- When you can't go out on weekends.
- When you don't see your parents on the weekends.
- When drummers actually start to make sense.
- When you wear your band shirt in public.
- When you can make this list longer.
- When you get the jokes on this list.
- When every girl/guy interested in you is in band.
- When you never wear jewelry or fingernail polish--you'd have to take
it off for competitions anyway.
- When you know the National Anthem by heart and in more than one key.
- When your instrument is worth more than your car.
- When half the stuff in your room has the word "band" on
it.
- When anything in your room says "band."
- When you know "Louie, Louie" and have a personal grudge
against him.
- When you and all your friends are easily tagged as "band"
when walking down the hall because you are all in a straight line and
all in step.
- When you can think of more than one reason to stop by the band room
on your way to class.
- When you can count on one hand your friends that are not in band.
- When you believe that the band sings better than the choir.
- When the band does sing better than the choir.
- When you get emotional thinking about your instrument being in the
repair shop.
- When you are still reading this list.
- When riding a bus with no heat on your way to a competition is fun.
- When upon emptying your pockets you can find either a screw driver,
drum key, water bottle, valve oil, slide grease, cork grease, etc.
- When you think parades are "F-U-N!"
- When you can get anywhere in 12 steps or less.
- When changing clothes on a bus is a normal occurrence.
- When you like the smell of your gloves.
- When you have learned how to wear more than six pairs of pants under
your uniform and still not have any wrinkles.
- When you have reached the end of this list and then actually send
it to other people!
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