You Know You're a Band Geek When...

• The most interesting part of practice is looking for objects in the clouds.
• Water breaks are your social life..
• The band room before the Freshmen band class is the "cool" hang-out and you're an upperclassmen.
• You decide that good weather is rain and bad weather is sunshine.
• You can predict what Mrs. B is going to make us do next.
• You have a harness tan line from playing the drums without a shirt on.
• You have a "v" tan line from your saxophone neck strap.
• All you ever talk about is band.
• You're excited when you get to leave school at 2:35.
• You name your thumb rest cushion Mr. Tushy and make it talk.
• Riding the bus home is reserved for special occasions.
• No matter how hard you try, you can't get out of step.
• You can never get rid of your sock tan line.
• You don't know the meaning of the words "sleep in."
• You sing the cadence while walking down the hall and walk in step with it.
• When you watch parades, you scrutinize everything each band does.
• When you close your eyes, you can still see the people you march next to, as if you were still marching the show.
• You dream about band.
• You make a website about band.
• It's 80 degrees in April and you wanna go out to the football field and march.
• There is a type of weather called "band jacket weather."
• When you watched Episode 2, you said that the clone army wasn't in step and their lines weren't straight, lol.
• You try to find the key that the clock at the band room is in.
• You decide that you will name your children after famous composers.
• You name your instrument.
• You try to pick out the key signature, time signature, and tempo every time you hear a song on the radio.
• Other band people become normal.
• When your instrument is out of your sight, you have to find a babysitter for it.
• You tell your instrument's babysitter that your instrument does tricks.
• When somebody hums 2 notes, you say, "That was a perfect fifth."
• Somehow, somewhere, you end up using your instrument as a weapon.
• You pay more attention to the music in the movie than the movie itself.
• You try to figure out what instrument somebody else plays before you know their name.
• You tap your foot while listening to music.
• You try to figure out what pitch the fire alarm is.
• You try to make harmony with the fire alarm.
• You think of different ways to play the trombone such as by putting a bocal in it.
• You make reeds out of straws and see how it sounds when you connect several straws together.
• You try to do pep band songs on your reed.
• You want to form a bassoon reed choir.
• You fight over the title band dork, band geek, and band nerd.
• You recognize that a bird's song is Beethoven's 5th with an extra note in it.
• You clap different rhythms during banquets or other events that require applause.
• You can modulate rhythms and meters while clapping (during concerts).
• You make a fife out of clarinet cane.
• You try to make a clarinet reed by hand.
• You use banquet silverware as percussion instruments.
• You recognize most of the pieces the Murfreesboro Philharmonic plays at the 4th of July party and sing your part along with it.
• You fight over which bassoon drawing is better.
• When sketching on programs, the pictures relate to the piece and instruments involved in playing the piece.
• You make up a story to go with the song you are playing and you can't ever play it again because you are laughing so hard.
• Being a woodwind player is a status symbol.
• You plan to have a funeral for your favorite reed.
• You start saying, "Diga diga diga diga...." or "Taka taka taka taka...." or "toocoo toocoo toocoo...." to practice your double-tonguing.
• You can double/triple tongue.
• You tune your sighs.
• You take a picture of the eighth-note-shaped plants in the Rennaissance Hotel.
• You tell your friend that he/she is laughing in 3/4 time.