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You might be a band geek if…

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  • during concert season you wish you where out on the field. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you can be found before school, at lunch, and after school down in front of the band room with all the other band members. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you spend more time in the band room then at your own house. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you are way too protective of your cubby hole. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you role your feet marching everywhere. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you look forward to band camp every summer. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you relate with the band nerds is the movie American Pie. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • the only dresses you have are black and concert style. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • for guys, the only dress clothes you have are dress slacks and tuxedo shirts ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you go to parades that you are not in and make sure lines are straight, horn angles are parallel, and everyone is on step. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you listen to the classical station and can name off songs that you remember playing in band. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you take comfort in the sound a baton makes banging agaisnt a podium. ( Jennie *Goober* )
  • you own your own E-flat clarinet. (Jamie)
  • you visit your band director everyday at his house.
  • …or you babysit his kids for him.
  • you can play every cadence the drum corps plays despite the fact you play clarinet. (Colt_saa_45)
  • From Miranda:
    • you always start off on the left foot.
    • you can’t walk and listen to music at the same time without marching to the beat.
    • your fondest memories of high school are from being in the band.
    • your best achievements have included becoming first chair and section leader of more than one section.
    • when you hear your favorite songs from band you can’t help but do the fingering for the notes with the song.
    • you don’t know the melody of a song because you only remember the part you played in band.
    • you can pick out all the different parts in any song.
    • …and name the instruments that play them.
  • you still wear your band shirt, from your senior year–ten years ago. ( HeidiPR )
  • you count down the days remaining until field band camp. ( matt )
  • you have a favorite cadence. ( melvan )
  • you walk in step with your friends in the hall, in the street, across campus… ( logan )
  • …or scream “LEFT, LEFT” at people out of step with you.
  • you conduct every time you hear a song play on the radio. ( seamz3 )
  • you proudly show off your trumpet mute collection. ( Jenn )
  • you’ve managed to build a beach-side hut using your old reeds. ( jessa )
  • you constantly sing old band tunes three or four years after graduating.
  • you go back to your old high school to help with summer band practices. ( star437 )
  • you try to hurt the other band at a football game. ( star437 )
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(More) You might be a band geek if…

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…one time, you went to band camp and came back with a girlfriend.

…you actually like wearing your marching uniform.

…you have your band director on speed dial.

…you have your band director as an emergency contact. (…but what if you’re at band camp??)

…you have your high band teacher’s home AND cell numbers on speed dial.

…you name your instrument.

…you cried when you found out you couldn’t be in band.

…you tell your friends its a band thing and they understand.

…you’ve dated everyone in the band and wonder if you’ll ever have another date again.

…you think Louie Louie is the best song ever.

…playing star down with the drum major isn’t fun anymore.

…you direct the songs on the radio.

…you know (from experience) that the band director is always right.

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