You Know You're A Band Geek When...

• You're walking behind someone and you're in step with them.
• All your friends are in band.
• You don't mind changing clothes on the bus (see below).
• You know how to change on the bus without revealing anything.
• You've had a "trombone-ectomy
• Being mauled by a drum is a normal part of life.
• "Guard" means a girl with a pole, not a guy with a gun.
• You remember sharps and flats more easily than you remember the name of the president.
• You've named your instrument.
• You see your section more than you see your family.
• Everyone wants to kill the other football team...and you want to kill the other band.
• You accidentally call your band director "Dad".
• Reeds taste good.
• You roll step through the cafeteria so you don't spill your food.
• You're alone and you suffocate because no one's telling you to breathe.
• You've actually been to band camp and consider it the highlight of your summer.
• You recite the alphabet A through G then start back at A again.
• Spit rags/swabbers don't gross you out.
• You carry cork grease in your pocket.
• 9/2 time scares the b'jeezus out of you, while dying a slow painful death in a pit of snakes doesn't.
• You and your pals have memorized the entire repertoire for the year and can play your respective parts together...on kazoos.
• You hear a song on the radio and think: "Hey, this'd make a good pep band song."
• You don't describe people by going "She's got brown hair, dark eyes, kind of tall..", but go "She's an alto sax."
• You have a designated section in your closet dubbed "for concert attire".
• You have a harness/neck strap tan line.
• Pep band is the highlight of your week.
• You go around humming the last song you practiced, even if it's Bb major scale.
• Someone yells out "Hey Tuba boy!" and you respond.
• Your biggest crush was/is your drum major.
• You go to parades that you are not in and make sure lines are straight, horn angles are parallel, and everyone is in step.
• You always start off on the left foot.
• You find it complicated to get in step with your reflection.
• You've seen "Mr.Holland's Opus" 26 times.
• Everybody in band fights like they're family.
• You are in step with your friends when walking down the hall. If someone is not, they fall behind or do a little foot shuffle to get in step.
• You can strip out of your uniform in less than a minute WITHOUT getting it on the floor in order to use the bathroom.
• Having people help dress and undress you isn’t even remotely sexually stimulating.
• You point out instruments from the music in cartoons.
• You’re still humming band music from three years ago.
• You start screaming “LEFT! LEFT! LEFT!” to the people that walk in front of you on your way to class.
• You’ve never had to pay to get into a football or basketball game.
• Your feet are together, your stomach is in, your shoulders are back, your head is up, and your eyes are “with pride” 24/7.
• You either hate orchestra or are incredibly envious of it.
• You’ll clean up the uniform room for a free soda.
• You’re feeling sick at school, but you don’t go home until after band.
• You’re friends who aren’t in band hang out in the band room before class starts.
• You bet on the DCI Championship instead of horse races.
• You know what DCI is.
• You fight over who gets to sleep on the floor of the bus.
• You dent a tuba and blame it on the flags.
• You go to other football games just to watch the band.
• You play the fight song for fun.
• You can measure 5 yards simply by counting your steps when walking... rollstepping, of course.
• You can stand absolutely still, staring at the wall, for 15 minutes straight.
• Normal people argue about which football team is better, but you argue about whether brass or woodwinds are better.
• Looking at pictures of new instruments turns you on.
• You’ve broken into the band room at least once.
• You don’t find anything dirty about “double tounging.”
• You talk to your plume.
• You’ve seen the entire band in their underwear.
• You’ve stood at attention for half an hour.
• You start humming a show tune from three years ago and your friends join in with their respective parts.
• The ring tone on your phone is an excerpt from your show.
• You refer to other schools by the show their band played.
• You know that football is really the pre-game show before the real thing - the half-time show.
• You’ve tried to fit yourself in a tuba case or instrument locker.
• You dress the lunch line.
• Everyone you’ve ever dated was a band member.
• You don’t find anything funny about the word “flugelhorn.”
• You spend more money on reeds than on food.
• You can identify any instrument and who it belongs to by its case.
• You know where every single dent on your marching horn came from.
• You eat lunch in the band room.
• You don’t think “fingering” is a dirty word.
• You can scale the stadium seats with ease but trip on the stairs at your house.
• You sing pep band tunes in the shower.

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