-It's kidnapping instruments

-It's running

-It's hiding in dark corners

-It's breaking in the student conductor

-It's being told that your section belongs in a playpen

-It's knowing nothing will ever be the same

-It's the vp giving you sunglasses for a pep rally

-It's bowing down to the bd

-It's calling a reporter a whore

-It's playing second part because your bd doesn't trust anyone else enough to lead the seconds

-It's not liking snow days

-It's utter confusion

-It's actually going to the pep rallies

-It's icons

-It's bus rides

-It's saying "Tap your heels together 3 times and say 'I wish my iPod would work, I wish my iPod would work, I wish my iPod would work.'"

-It's wishing you had drill paper to plot out your tumbling routine for PE

-It's talking about goats and cats

-It's having imaginary friends

-It's looking forward to Wednesdays

-It's missing marching more than you ever thought was possible

-It's wanting the team to go to state

-It's counting the days until band camp

-It's having your own language

-It's using said language

-It's finding out you have a guaranteed spot in the top band next year

-It's enjoying playing for judges

-It's the Numa Numa song

-It's having every band person at a single lunch table

-It's braids

-It's going to the band room during lunch

-It's bouncy balls

-It's chalk

-It's drawing on the chalkboard

-It's hanging out in the auditorium

-It's chasing someone with a 6 foot metal pole

-It's feeling sorry for people who don't have a performance on Friday nights

-It's reading each other's minds

-It's being wayyyyy too hyper

-It's writing every essay for English about something band-related

-It's security cameras

-It's hundreds of emails daily

-It's making icons about band

-It's comics

-It's crying when your find out you have a guaranteed spot in the top band

-It's enjoying playing for judges

-It's stalking a tenth of the band on a random day at the mall

-It's icons

-It's being entertained during English

-It's figuring out other people's combinations

-It's going to the mall to play cards

-It's being stalked by a senior's younger brother

-It's band shirt/jeans or black pants/sambas/black hoodie or band jacket

-It's losing, and having the time of your life

-It's food fights

-It's being told "you may be band kids, but you still have to make it look like you're following the rules" by the vice principal

-It's missing pep band

-It's a conspiracy

-It's being able to read people's minds

-It's wanting to tell off your English teacher

-It's addiction

-It's learning new card games

-It's making icons that express your love of band

-It's asking to hold a saxophone

-It's recruiting for the cult

-It's realizing that some people aren't as bad as they seem

-It's learning to tolerate people that you hate

-It's the PHC, MBC, TCC, KGC and ATC

-It's air hockey incidents

-It's karaoke

-It's fire drills

-It's freaking out during fire drills because you don't have your instrument

-It's playing in the rain

-It's having a food fight every day at lunch

-It's sticking together

-It's wishing marching band were year-round

-It's being the only one in your section who knows all the notes

-It's the dungeon under the school

-It's the cat walk

-It's being late to full band because you were exploring

It's party train

It's Blow The Roof Off This Sucker

It's publicly pointing and laughing at cell phone users

It's the entire row sleeping on their stands

It's prank calls

It's making plans 6 months in advance

It's counting the days until band camp

It's Samba powers

It's drama

It's putting the assistant bd into shock

It's fanfic accounts

It's soup incidents

It's beating people up with an instrument

It's downloading old field show songs

It's realizing how much you hate certain people

It's messing up each other's hair

It's getting kids meals for the toy

It's McDonalds, Ritters, and Taco Bell trips

It's spending weekends talking about band

It's having band-related dreams

It's wanting to march in the 4th of July parade

It's xangas

It's making up new words

It's band-related scheming

It's living off of nachos and Pixy Stix

It's having a car in your locker

It's fun with eggs

It's liking pep band

It's three-way challenges

It's the second chair hating you

It's the man that lives in the Gatorade machine

It's arguing over how many days until band camp

It's the neatness fairies

It's mourning the closing of Ritter's

It's knowing the show theme months before you're supposed to

It's enjoying the penguin class

It's the body-er, party train

It's wishing band camp would hurry up and get here

It's freaking out when you find out your band will be doubling in size next year

It's hoping to get to play 1st part

It's a whole lotta rhythm goin' round

It's staying conscious during the penguin class

It's liking being a freshman

It's being deemed "not sane"

It's meeting alumni everywhere you go

It's wearing t-shirts for other bands in your state

It's having the rival school's band as an ally

It's having teachers be afraid of you

It's way too much drama

It's being the first to know who made guard

It's informing people of whether they made guard

It's spending Friday nights practicing

It's enjoying practicing

It's the handshake

It's having traditions and rituals

It's naming inanimate objects

It's having invisible friends

It's when listening to the old music is painful

It's being told you're strange

It's having the security guards wrapped around your finger

It's being scared to ask why the security guards let the band kids do anything they want to

It's having dreams of being first chair

It's proving your old bd wrong

It's never giving up

It's talking birds

It's relating to every band-related thing you read

It's using sheet music as free-reading material

It's putting people in the lockers

It's being afraid to clean out your locker for fear of what's growing in the back

It's the rock symbol

It's being the first to notice the new bulletin boards

It's knowing what tone a car horn sounds in (F)

It's going through breakdowns together

It's smiling when the show music shows up on the playlist you're listening to

It's taking locks

It's fighting over said locks

It's investing in gas masks

It's all being sick at the same time

It's meeting up before 3rd period

It's being surprised to see your bd in the hallway far from the band room

It's the fact that your bd's son play baseball in the same league as your sister

It's knowing that bd's son's team and your sister's team play each other the day before the final concert

It's being the only one in your section who doesn't get yelled at for poor tone quality

It's knowing things before the rest of the band

It's strengthening your tongue

It's being happy to train a person to play your instrument

It's laughing for half of class

It's misinterpretations

It's making up recipes

It's petting the lucky Sambas

It's sweet revenge

It's having a spot in the band wing to get each other through breakdowns

It's the fact that one of your band's old dm's is now the dm for Carolina Crown

It's knowing that said dm's little sister is in your homeroom

It's feeling honored to be compared to upperclassmen who are really good musicians

It's celebrating

It's having several hours of band music on your computer

It's waving from the busses

It's stalking each other to see how long it takes them to notice

It's never being questioned by security guards

It's sliding down the stairs

It's online quizzes

It's asking to play your high note over the radio

It's using a piccolo to do so

It's visiting the band website daily

It's conversations that go for hours

It's braids

It's the Grinch

It's your weirdness not being questioned anymore

It's having flashbacks of marching season

It's not being able to look at the old pictures because it's too painful

It's having inside jokes that date back several years

It's plotting against people

It's hair

It's special hell

It's fighting within the section

It's temptation

It's rocking out… to a jazz concert

It's lyrics and icons

It's counting days

It's 500 emails every week

It's 2 weeks until the world stops turning

It's knowing that life will go on

It's rocking out to the field songs

It's sunburns and bruises

It's death to the penguin

It's completely innocent PDA being not-so-innocent anymore

It's fish sex

It's chants

It's the kit kat song

It's having sixth senses

It's being amazed that the soap dispenser was finally fixed

It's being the only one in your section who knows the music

It's the bd who has hated you all year telling you "good job"

It's said bd then telling the guy after you that he would hate to be the one to follow you

It's flipping people off

It's 12 people walking down the hallway together

It's the band table disappearing

It's making the guys uncomfortable

It's eye balls

It's not being phased by spit anymore

It's flavored water

It's evil thoughts

It's teaching someone your instrument so that they can march

It's having to ice several areas of your body every day

It's having a wide interest in music

It's living 15 minutes from one of the world's top music schools

It's gladly playing solo in front of everybody, and being the first to do so

It's falling over the floor

It's trusting people that you shouldn't trust

It's going to the band room during lunch

It's knowing where to hide so that you won't be found

It's remembering last year's sectionals

It's special hell

It's carrying things around that you shouldn't

It's not even realizing that you're carrying your instrument (not in the case) as you walk into the library

It's taking your instrument to the bathroom with you because you don't trust anyone with it

It's doing victory dances

It's hoping that you get a solo

It's having dreams of getting a solo

It's not being phased by people staring at you

It's having a science experiment in your band locker

It's having a senior band geek as a lifeguard in your PE class

It's being upset that you don't have band on the last day of school

It's being able to play your instrument without a mouthpiece

It's playing Mary Had A Little Lamb without a mouthpiece… and it sounding better than some of the other clarinets with a mouthpiece

It's knowing that you can get first chair if you try hard enough

It's everybody being convinced that you're high

It's getting ready for school in the band room

It's having a first period class near the band room so that you can get there after the warning bell

It's skipping prom

It's the games played at lunch

It's knowing that you have friends who are just as strange as you

It's giving pushups to the 3rd chair who says you look like Frankenstein

It's wearing your pajamas to school half the time

It's wads of gum

It's learning 8 languages

It's the peace sign

It's knowing where spare reeds are

It's hearing the fight song in your nightmares

It's honors night

It's stalking 20 people at once

It's sunglasses

It's seeing a stand as a pole

It's making fun of the guard

It's cork grease chap stick

It's AIM

It's speaking in third person

It's staying in the band room after school is out for the summer

It's going bowling

It's finding out you have 8 freshmen in your section

It's trips to Dairy Queen

It's almost getting hit by a car

It's getting a big locker

It's being at peace with changes

It's memorizing the music before band camp