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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 )
