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140 signs you've been in band too long

ok this is something someone sent me...titled "The Mother of All Band Lists, The Ultimate IUP Marching Band List: 140 Signs You've Been in Band Too Long!!" So enjoy!

1. When you hear music and you start marking time.

2. When you walk behind someone and you're in step with them.

3. When you try to guess the tempo of your favorite song.

4. When all of your friends are in the band.

5. When you don't mind changing clothes on the bus.

6. When you point out key changes and dynamics while listening to the radio.

7. When every guy/girl you're interested in is in the band.

8. When you like wearing your uniform.

9. When people ask you about your social life and you say, "Oh, you mean my flute/trumpet/drum/etc.?"

10. When you consider your drill book a fashion accessory.

11. When you've had a "trombone-ectomy"

12. When you practice your instrument more than you talk to your dog.

13. When being mauled by a drum is a normal part of life.

14. When people worry when they see you without your instrument.

15. When "armed guard," means a girl with a pole instead of a guy with a gun.

16. When band camp is FUN.

17. When you respond to "band fag"

18. When someone says the word "box" and you automatically put your head up.

19. When you remember flats and sharps more easily than your name.

20. When you dress the lunch line, and urge others to do the same.

21. When you're alone and you suffocate because there's no one telling you to breathe.

22. When slides feel normal.

23. When your instrument has a name.

24. When you remember your instrument's birthday and forget your mom's.

25. When making a line is your biggest accomplishment of the day.

26. When back marching no longer reminds you of ballet.

27. When you give your instrument a birthday party.

28. When you can make brown shoes look white.

29. When your uniform fits.

30. When black feathers become a fashion "do".

31. When you see your section more than you see your family.

32. When everyone wants to kill the other football team...and you want to kill the other band.

33. When you think evening practices should last a half-hour longer.

34. When you accidentally call your band director "Dad".

35. When you CAN sight-read.

36. When you can put on you uniform in less than 10 minutes.

37. When reeds taste good.

38. When you think your plume is alive.

39. When marking time is your favorite form of exercise.

40. When you have a neck strap/harness tan line.

41. When you subconsciously start practicing with a pencil.

42. When numbers past 8 aren't important.

43. When you're more opinionated about the Madison Scouts/Phantom Regiment rivalry than the O.J. trial.

44. When you roll-step through the cafeteria so you don't spill your lunch.

45. When you'd rather practice than read this list.

46. When letters past G aren't important.

47. When you get the jokes on this list.

48. When everybody fights like they are family.

49. When you root for the other football team to lessen the time of your season.

50. When you know everybody else's personal business.

51. When you can add more items to this list.

52. When you've practiced so long, the color guard is together.

53. When you have no more secrets.

54. When you don't try to hide that fact that you're in band.

55. When you subconsiously start humming your music.

56. When you not only your own part, but also everyone else's.

57. When you eat lunch with all of the other band people.

58. When you can tell who is in the bathroom by looking at their sneakers under the stall.

59. When you resort to humming your band music to fall asleep.

60. When wide open spaces stir up an urge to march your show.

61. When you have a pin from every competition that you've been to.

62. When your friends that aren't in marching band create a group called "non-marchers."

63. When you have 2 instruments-- a junky one for marching band and a good one for concert band.

64. When dreams of marching are constantly in your head.

65. When you can't go to the movies on weekends with your freinds.

66. When you don't see your parents on the weekends.

67. When free time is spent all on homework.

68. When you can change on a co-ed bus and NEVER reveal anything.

69. When you must always run to get to any sorta of consession stand 1st (or the dinner table)

70. When members of OTHER bands send you candy grams.

71. When you can dance on moving bleachers and NOT fall off.

72. When you start learning to play stand songs on other instruments for more excitment.

73. When you can strip out of your uniform in 5 seconds in order to get a stall in the bathroom before the crowds.

74. When you're able to convince your parents to come to all the Calvacades...if you have to suffer, so should they!

75. When instead of an 8x10 school picture, on your mantel is a poster size picture of the band.

76. When you find a piece of a uniform and know who's it is by the number.

77. When the dry cleaners see you enter and say"(your name here); Remove all mud and ketchup."

78. When you arrive home at the same time the bars close.

79. When you know how to play 10 popular stand songs, yet don't know the words to any of them.

80. When you learn how to layer your clothing without it buldging the uniform.

81. When you graduate and try to take your uniform with you.

82. When you learn how to sneak food under your hat to eat in the stands.

83. When you steal parkas to wear at non-band functions.

84. When you need money and always seem to find extra in your uniform pocket.

85. When you find ways to use your instrument in non-band classes.

86. When you remember not to lean back in Drill Masters

87. When your non-band friends keep asking "Is band some type of brian-washing cult?"

88. When you have atleast 5 different ways to fashionably put your hair up under your hat.

89. When you actually take the time to put away your uniform and use hangers.

90. When you can find the pocket in your uniform and not feel perverted when you remove money.

91. When the highlight of you day is getting new band gloves with "grippies"

92. When you can carry 4 different food products at a time and eat them while standing up.

93. When having other people dress and un-dress you is no longer sexually stimulating.

94. When you wear your neck strap as a fashion accessory to everyday (non-band) functions.

95. When you warn young children about the evils of band before it's too late.

96. When you start finding practical uses for drummers; like foot warmers.

97. When you want to break into the band room to practice your instrument.

98. When you spend free time cleaning up the band room for a free soda.

99. When walking on mud no longer makes you slip.

100. When you spend Sunday, your non-band day adding more signs you've been in band too long to the list. >>

101. When your hands are pale from wearing gloves all summer.

102. When you're more comfortable sleeping in your sleeping bag on a gym floor.

103. When 3-4 hour bus trips seem like 5 minutes.

104. When you're comfy eating your meals sitting in a parking lot.

105. When you miss class to march in a parade.

106. When you and 30 other band members can form your own bus on a parking lot.

107. When you can surf bleachers while playing Cherokee.

108. When you go home and feel like your family is missing 200 people.

109. When your sock line fools people into thinking you are actually wearing socks.

110. When you roll step while you walk to class.

111. When you actually like marching band and would kill to do it all year long.

112. When the drummers make sense to you.

113. When you go to the stadium at midnight and practice your drill.

114. When major in music and use your high school band director as a role model.

115. When you wonder what life would be like if you weren't in band.

116. When those stupid "band humor" jokes are the funiest things you ever heard.

117. When you pick out instruments from the music in cartoons.

118. When you "do it, again!"

119. When you've dated everyone in the band and now wonder if you're ever gonna have another date.

120. When you start screaming "LEFT! LEFT! LEFT!" to the people that walk in front of you on the way to class.

121. When you think trumpeters have a right to be egotistical.

122. When you have perfect pitch.

123. When the band director is always right.

124. When you marry that special someone in your section.

125. When you can relate to more than half of the things on this list.

126. When you change from your instrument to the tuba.

127. When you don't think flautists have a slight attitude problem.

128. When your friends have kids and force them to be in music.

129. When you no longer think drummers have a serious chronic playing illness.

130. When the uniforms turn you on.

131. When you don't realize that people actually have to pay to go to a football game.

132. When you find that being in the band is a great way to pick up chicks.

133. When you know you will never confuse your right from your left.

134. When you find more than one use for a plume.

135. When you ask what would you do if you had free time. Study?!

136. When there are "kinky bus trips".

137. When you get a chance to show the football players who the real men are.

138. When you get to PLAY with Watson the Emu!

139. When the words "plume" and "rub down" are in the same sentence, you think positively.

140. When "everbody is up today".

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