A/N: I do realize I haven't updated this in a while, and please don't kill me for it! I recently moved to another state and therefore have joined a new marching band. There are a lot of differences between my two bands, but I have realized that there are a lot of my previous points in my new band, as well as more that I haven't done yet (a.k.a. this chapter). Please enjoy!
You know you're in marching band when…
Your section having dance parties before football games is a source of jealousy from other sections (even if they won't admit it).
A dance routine to "Poker Face" can be created by one person in the band and spread so quickly that 170+ people learn it by the end of the season.
The almost entirely female mallet section can eat more than the male-dominant low brass section, and still not have a member over 130 pounds.
Your section leadership would rather blow bubbles during practice than actually practice.
Two of your senior section members can have an argument about the merits of tea vs. hot chocolate, wind up tackling each other, and get off the ground to practice like absolutely nothing happened.
Your sole source of joy at the practices that younger kids attend is secretly plotting how to best kill the obnoxious middle-schoolers and hide their bodies.
The percussion captains are the only ones crazy enough to actually eat Atomic Wings from Quaker Steak n' Lube, just to get a bumper sticker.
You've learned not to give clarinetists Silly String… Trust me on that one.
There's always some "sex-ional tension between the boners and the sexophones."
Above bad pun is the highlight of senior section leader's day.
The guys who play football before band practice are actually better than the football team. (True story actually, our Band Football Team took on and beat our football team a few years ago)
You would think the Girl's Band Football chicks would play touch football, but you're way wrong.
Grass fights are a normal part of practices.
You run to the playground with your section during breaks in order to stake a claim on the best swings.
The drum major maces are referred to as "disco sticks," even by said drum majors.
You can find perverted things everywhere, even on elephant-shaped animal crackers.
Senior gifts get more and more inappropriate every year.