Things I love about marching band:
Dancing around in my pants
When I forget to button my buttons a nice senior, usually my drum major, will button them
Having senior friends
Winning best guard because they are all amazing
Joining in their screaming thing that they do before each game
Being tight with my trombone brothers
Laughing with the section leader about how someone's on something
Having weird competitions like, who can bounce the highest off their seat
Having the Band Director look at you really weird when you're a participating in said contests
You can start singing your part in the show and at least one person will join in
Having the Drum Major telling you to shape up and be better
Showing everyone what you've got
Doing happy jacks
Laughing so hard while doing happy jacks that you can't finish
Dancing during lunch to an iPod hooked up to some speakers
Pushing 7 cafeteria tables together so everyone can eat together
Being gone the day that your section is in charge of cleanup
Playing games on the bus including one that involves holding hands in a circle
Band moms asking if you are doing séance or praying
Daring someone to slap the Drum Major on the butt
Laughing when they do it
MOTH ON YOUR BUTT!
Yelling inside jokes out randomly during practice
Beating everyone else to opening set
Falling asleep on the band room floor
Waking up with your section leaders spit valve right over your face
Laughing hysterically because you're so tired that everything is funny
Having everywhere on your face sunburned except where your sunglasses go
Making fun of the way the Drum Major itches his nose
Getting him to laugh too because he knows it's true
Randomly busting out in to song
Everyone singing the same song you are singing
Waltzing in my band uniform with my favorite clarinet
Making the tall saxophone catch you when you run up to him and jump
Telling everyone the tall saxophone is your brother
The only cool tenor is really my brother
Having people just barely realize that he's my brother
People telling us we laugh the same
When alumni come they share great secrets
Talking to said alumni about your older siblings because you have tons of them
Getting great blackmail stories about your siblings to tell to their fiancé
Having their fiancé laugh so hard at the story
Seeing the look on their face when they hear that story
Getting the annoying song from the show stuck in your head months after band is over
The guy mellophone having the annoying song for their ringtone
Hearing the original version of the opener and asking for a CD with it on it
Marching band is just one huge family
Pain is temporary, Pride is forever
Coughing "Skanks" after the dance team performs and getting you section leader to laugh
Being the last freshman in when doing drill downs
Getting out when the Drum Major calls a slide and not know what it is
Dancing in the stands with the suzis
Getting the guard members to let you play with the flags
Choreographing my own solo to do while the trumpet is playing her solo
Knowing the band sucks but loving it anyway
Telling the REAL story about the invention of football
Dancing to the music that they play during the soccer games during practice
Screaming the names of the soccer players to see if they can hear you
Lining up and doing a dance with a bunch of friends that you learned at a church camp
Hugging the seniors at the practice in the auditorium
Crying because you're going to miss all of them so much
Going through the line twice because you want to give them hugs again
When you hug them the suzis pick you up
Beaming when your band wins at a competition
Being sad because it's the seniors last competition
Freaking out because I screwed up really bad
All the seniors tell you their horror stories to make you feel better
Laughing about the time the Drum Major fell over his freshmen year
Finally figuring out the drill to the third song
Laughing at the two guys in my section who get hit in the head with a flag because they don't know the drill