181) You had no idea how to play football and now you do because you watch your team play
182) For the whole time, you've been holding cymbals wrong and now your shirt is cut open
183) Your school has no cymbal line so you and your friend are the two official members
184) You hope that your team doesn't score so you can sit there and talk to your friends
185) When they do score, you stand up, play, and sit back down and continue the conversation like nothing happend
186) You don't explain people by saying, that boy with the brown hair and green eyes, but you explain them like: you know, sophomore, brownish hair and blue eyes, trumpet, 2nd in wind
187) Your friend pulls a prank that involves taking apart their instrument and hiding all of their music
188) You don't know rain until you've marched in it.
189) It has rained during a competition before. Only for your show.
190) You and everyone else thinks its romantic to see your bf/gf in band camp
191) The pit doesn't play with the color guard. They dodge them.
192) You have a percussionist who keeps a freaking huge tub of animal crackers in his locker and shares them with the fellow band
193) Your percussion friends start feasting on them and the BD catches her eating them and tells her she has to vaccum the band room as a punishment using the janitor's vaccum
194) You watch her for 10 minutes vaccuming and you stand there laughing
195) POKE! With a capital "H" ... need I say more?
196) Your best friend on drumline keeps a bottle of axe in his backpack
197) You hate every scale known to mankind except for one: Bb scale
198) You have a friend who kicks cymbals in order for them not to fly off the drum cart on the day of state because it's so windy out
199) You, for the first time in your life, did your final show in the day time
200) ALL percussionists have or almost have ADHD. Even if they are an honors student.
201) You've bitten on a broken reed to see what happens
202) It doesn't break
203) One of the trumpets decides he doesn't want to play so he walks out of band when the BD's not looking
204) Fifteen minutes later, the BD finally notices that he's gone and gives him a 0% for his daily grade
205) Five minutes after that, he decides to come back just at the wrong time- the BD is working with the trumpet section
206) So he sneaks around the pillars of the cafeteria like a ninja and runs to his seat when the BD's not looking (the upper band has the band room and your locked out of the FAC)
207) The whole band is laughing because she doesn't notice until 10 minutes later and decides to give him a lecture
208) There is the little rule in band if the teachers ever see anything of yours lying around and they have to pick it up:
a. You have to sing "I'm a Little Teapot" with motions in front of the whole band b. You have to bring food for the whole band c. You get a phone call home.
209) There is two people (an alto and of course, a percussionist) who never brought in food.
210) And it's been a whole month
211) You have a friend who plays cowbell for pep band and texts the whole time
212) Your BD stops in the middle of the song when the band is actually playing well and doesn't stop when it's a complete disaster
213) Freshman orientation is a fun game the pit plays during sectionals during break
214) Your percussion friends have a 'triangle duet' and its a horrible disaster
215) You and your section doesn't even know how the hell they messed up a triangle duet
216) Your section consists of two people: you and your friend
217) Your friends with your BD on Facebook
218) You and your friends have had a plan to end the show with shattering percussion mallets, flaming sax's, and electric trumpets
219) There is a group on Facebook that you are a part of that is titled: 'The Band Geeks of _ High School'
220) There is only one place/event where you need to drink water the fastest: Pep band
221) You and your friends stay after school just because there's pep band
222) The whole entire drumline keeps a bottle of Axe in their backpack
223) You have to write a speech about yourself and you have a whole paragraph written just on the band
224) You and your friends spend hours just ranting about how much the drumline and color guard instructors annoy you
225) And one or more of those people aren't even in band
226) Your non-band friends just don't understand your love for band and they never will unless they join
227) The terms: Fingering, push in and pull out aren't dirty
228) The phrase: "Where are my sticks?" from a percussionist isn't dirty
229) You get to conduct in front of the whole band and nobody listens to you at first
230) Then you say "hey guys..." and nobody hears you
231) Then you say a little louder, "Heyyyy!" then they stop for a second and talk again
232) Then you get to shout "HEYYYYYY!" and they all stop talking and listen to you
233) Your supposed to be conducting in 4/4 but then you forgot how to conduct so you end up in 3/4
234) When you cut them off to stop, they listen to you better than the real BD
Moonstar2015's 235) You spend all your free time in the band room
236) You can't wait till you can drive so you can come/leave the band room whenever you feel
Tenuto07's 237) Your username/password have to do something with band
238) Your non-band friends think its cute when a guy gives a girl chocolates or flowers, but you think its cuter if they do a cover of your favorite song for you
239) And you don't care how bad it is or what instrument it's on
240) Even if it is on a drum kit
