-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
