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

(provided courtesy of Shawn Thompson, Sr. '03)

You know you're a band geek when...

• You're walking behind someone and you're in step with them.
• The band room is your second home. It is your home if you've got it bad.
• You always start off on the left foot.
• You've seen "Mr.Holland's Opus" 26 times.
• You've never ever sat in your class section at a pep rally because you're playing.
• You can measure 5 yards without a ruler - all you need is to count your steps while you're walking.
• You can stand absolutely still, staring at the wall, for 15 minutes straight.
• You don't take "double tounging" as a dirty joke.
• You can identify any instrument and who it belongs to by it's case.
• You can scale the stadium seats with ease, but you trip on the stairs in your house.
• You can walk up to anyone in band and fix any part of their uniform without saying anything other than giving them your instrument and saying, "Hold this."
• There are specific dances needed for certain cadences, cheers, and fight songs.
• You have a farmer's tan from the last band camp.
• You lose your voice from screaming at competitions.
• At least one of the pictures in your room is of you in a band uniform.
• The stands next to the band are reserved, too. For the band parents.
• The cheerleaders only talk to you when they are trying to sell something.
• Playing through a rehearsal when it's 100 degrees outside with 90% humidity? Not a problem.
• You've pondered who would win in a band vs. football team fight. (Hmm, 160 band members with instruments vs. football players. Let's see.)
• When you consider the band banquet to be prom, until you actually get to go to prom.

Proud to be a band geek! (current and former),
Kelley Thompson
(dah Webmastah!)