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1. You call your plumes chickens.
2. You name your plumes.
3. Your instrument has a name.
4. You have a nickname...
5. ....that you were forced into.
6. You get offensive if anyone puts down the band.
7. You actually practice your instrument.
8. You know people by what instrument they play.
9. You've come up with a million ways to hide food at football games and not get caught.
10. Most of your conversations are about band geeks...
11. ...or start with "this one time at band camp"
12. You walk in step with the other band geeks in the hall...
13. ...then you all try to get out of step...
14. ... but it doesn't work.
15. The most you've ever danced is at a football game.
16. You've fell on the football field...
17. ....in the middle of the show.
18. Your instrument has came apart while marching during a show.
19. You've been locked in a tuba case.
20. You want to be locked in a tuba case.
21. You've came up with a song about band geeks.
22. You don't mind changing on a bus...
23. ...in front of other people...
24. ...at night.
25. *You and your friends went back to the bus to change after a concert... only to come back and realize that you have to go right back outside and change back into your uniform because of pictures.
26. When you've marched in 100 degree heat...
27. ...in the middle of August...
28. ...in blue jeans...
29. ...with your hair down...
30. ...in high humidity...
31. ...and it didn't bother you.
32. * You've "lost the game" a million times...
33. * ....but still have no idea what the game is about.
34. Section wars are a normal part of life.
35. You sleep better on the bus than you do at home.
36. * You and 32 other band geeks have been piled onto ONE bus with 52 sweaty and smelly football players...
37. ...who kept singing random songs the whole way home.
38. Every time you hear the word "left" you imeadiately look around and think back to band camp...
39. ...or start marching...
40. ...or scream.
41. You've been hit in the face with a flag.
42. You duck every time you see a flag...
43. ... or baton.
44. You've had a bug fly down your throat...
45. ... right before you took a breath to play...
46. ...and ended up coughing through the whole song.
47. You think you look sexy in your uniform.
48. Your hat started making your head itch right before a show...
49. ... and you thought ants had crawled into it...
50. ...so your friend started hitting your hat and only ended up making it crooked.
51. You've used your plume as a pom pom.
52. You still have stuff in your band locker from your freshmen year...
53. ...or nine months ago.
54. You can always be found in the band room 30-45 minutes before school...
55. ...and 30 minutes after school.
56. You carry your instrument home every day.
57. You can run in your uniform...
58. ...and band shoes.
59. You obsessively clean your instrument...
60. ...and your band shoes.
61. You've came up with a story about your band life.
62. You've wrote down every random thing that's happened in your band...
63. ...but the list just keeps getting bigger.
64. You've been highly tempted to hit your section leader in the head with your instrument.
65. Your outfits mainly consist of some random band T-shirt and blue jeans.
66. You've found a million ways to hide your music when you march into the stadium. (like sticking it in your uniform)
67. You're proud to be called a band geek.
68. You yell at someone for not practicing.
69. You've been locked in someone's band locker.
70. Your fingers have been frozen to your instrument.
71.* You've dropped your instrument and said " NO BODY SAW THAT! ...
72. ...but it never fails that someone always says, " Yes we did."
73.  You've made a list called " You might be a band geek if..."
74. You can add to this list.
75. You've yelled at someone for saying your section sucks.
76. You call your band your family...
77. ...you call your band director your mom or dad...
78. ... your drum major your aunt or uncle...
79. ... you've made up a band family tree.
80. You have a good memory.
81. You have a good since of rythm...
82. ... or your just the person who has no since of rythm whatsoever...
83. ...and you're the person who needs extra help because you can never stay in step.
84. You'll be listening to the radio and say that we should play [insert song name here] for next year's show.
85. Your main topic of conversation is next year's show...
86. ...and the next...
87. ...and the next...
88. ...and the year after that.
89. You plan on coming back and helping out during band camp after you graduate.
90. *You can run two laps around the high school with no problem.
91. You don't mind running at 7:30 in morning....
92. ...and then marching.
93. You think percussionists have ADD.
94. YOU have ADD.
95. You're bipolar.
96. You've passed out at band camp.
97. You don't mind talking to band geeks from other schools...
98. ...even though they're complete and total strangers.
99. You pass around your cell phone at honor bands and marching competitions...
100. ...and everyone puts their number in it...
101. ... even people you won't remember...
102. ...so you end up getting random phones calls from them.
103. You can relate to most things on this list.
104. You actually understand the things on this list.
105. You've laughed at least one thing on this list.
106. When you listen to any song on the radio you pay attention to every little detail of it and try to pick out the instruments.
107. You and your friends switch instruments and play each other's music.
108.  You start playing your show music and the rest of the band joins in.
109. Most of your friends are in band.
110. You get bored and randomly start playing your instrument.
111. You're random.
112. It never fails that every time you get to the stadium after a long bus ride you have to use the bathroom really bad....
113. .... but when you get back they've already played your favorite stand tune.
114. You go out to eat with all of your band friends after practice.
115. You have no life outside of band.
116. *You get locked in someone else's band locker just about everyday.
117. You come up with evil plots against your section leader...
118.  ...and the section leader of another section...
119. ...for no absoulute reason...
120. * You've been kicked in the face with somebody's band locker door.
121. * You've kicked someone in the face with a band locker door.
122. *You're always sleeping in band lockers.
123. Whenever you hear music coming from the band director's office you( and everyone else) randomly flock to his/her office.
124. You've gotten off of the bus and then you and the whole band sprinted to the bathroom.
125. You can say "That's what she said..." Behind almost everything.
126. You want to be a band director when you get older.
127. You can figure out what time signature a song on the radio is in.
128. You want to murder someone for dropping your instrument.
129. You gasp everytime someone throws their instrument into the air...
130. .... or you're the one throw your instrument into the air so you can scare that person.
131. You've had a band conga line.
132. You are always yelling at the percussion because they're always playing way too loud...
133. ....but they never stop so you throw something at them.
134. You're the designated band driver and are always driving the underclassmen around...
135. You dance to the metronome.
136. You've came up with a section chant.
137. You're a section leader and call your section your babies.
138. You're overprotective of your section.
139. You have a boyfriend or girlfriend in band.
140. You've had to crawl under the bleachers to get someone's instrument, mouthpiece, music, etc.
141. *You've been attacked by black beetles during the game.
142. *You're instrument fell on the ground and then wouldn't play right, but at the end of practice you realized there was a huge dirt clod on the end of it, and you freaked out.
143. You've been hit in the head with a trombone or tuba.
144. You've had to march in the mud...
145. ....and got stuck....
146. You have figured out how to play your instrument up under a poncho.
147. You've been attacked by bees during practice.
148. You've waged war on another section....
149. ....for no reason at all....
150. You've hung your drum major's hat from the ceiling.
151. You've made a person out of a trombone case.
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Comments: 306

supersonicparadise [2017-12-05 12:15:40 +0000 UTC]

I'm a Sousaphone/Tuba(/Trombone in Jazz) and can say that many of these are relatable. Where I am, the target section is the flutes. They call themselves trash for us!

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SeanJoy [2016-11-28 17:22:46 +0000 UTC]

9 and 22 are so true! yet, I'm a football player. Woo! Lets go white tigers!

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CK-Studios [2016-11-10 14:32:59 +0000 UTC]

As someone in colorguard, #22 is the most relatable XD

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MyBrightDestiny [2016-06-10 18:51:00 +0000 UTC]

I can freaking relate!! This is my last band and marching year and I'm so sad about that. 😭 This made me laugh so hard! ❤

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SheCelebrates [2016-02-27 11:45:13 +0000 UTC]

What fun!  I was in Marching Band back in the late 1970's. Graduated in 1978.  We did experience a lot of these things.  No cell phones, though LOL.  I play flute and my sister and niece both play french horn.  I never got hit by anything, but the show my senior year had a 'head chop' where the flags did a snap turn right next to a trumpet and the trumpets had to remember to duck.  I don't remember anyone getting hurt.  Back then we were big on snapping.  Our poor flag girls had bruises under their arms where they would snap those flagpoles so hard.  But, we were good.  We won so many contests it was just amazing.  This year's band got to be in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.  It's so great to know that the winning tradition that took hold with my generation has continued through to today's generation of band geeks.

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thunder1357 [2016-01-23 01:02:12 +0000 UTC]

139. You have a boyfriend or girlfriend in band.

That's me!! My boyfriend plays euphonium and I play trombone

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Calpernica [2015-06-11 05:49:12 +0000 UTC]

-==

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SteinwayHusky [2014-07-27 02:46:54 +0000 UTC]

Last year our show was Dead Men Tell No Tales. So we had this plastic skeleton we hauled around during competitions. Once me and my friends actually dressed the skeleton in full band attire. Funniest thing ever! 

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PokeKirby87 [2014-04-09 00:38:28 +0000 UTC]

152. The band director is your Father. (true story bro)

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Kittybug61 [2014-03-19 01:30:24 +0000 UTC]

I relate to a lot of these. My band family is amazing and random. I play flute, my fluties are my favorite section.

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mb1418 [2014-03-04 00:02:55 +0000 UTC]

I can relate to most of this, Iv'e only been in marching band since September last year. I didnt go to band camp, but ive heard it sucks. Iv'e been in 2 DIFFERENT Marching bands. AH$ and VCH$, and putting everything thats happend between the two, I can totally relate to this. I play Baritone T.C. for concert band, played Trumpet for marching season. Anyone who knows about the Vista Murrieta HIgh School Band Competition coming up: I wish you luq. VCHS ROCKS!

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DarkSapphireRoses [2014-02-01 00:56:04 +0000 UTC]

Woop! Flute players! *High five*


152. You and your band friends start chanting band chants/tapping cadence rhythms in the middle of class.


^^ Anybody else? We practically had a band flash mob during English one day...most amazing thing ever.

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mb1418 In reply to DarkSapphireRoses [2014-03-03 23:57:36 +0000 UTC]

Sounds cool.

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irishm8 [2013-10-23 02:52:43 +0000 UTC]

I can really Relate!! omg

maybe a bit more to add, but I'll be rambling


& Even though I'm fairly new to marching band

and also, being a Super Freshie (8th Grader),

I've already have inside jokes, talk about Marching Band nonstop, and I may have a crush on my (Half) Section leader

our band is small (just about 20 people, most quit.. mind you)

and so our Sections are weirdly mashed

Meaning I'm in the Pit AND Percussion.

(We have 2 drummers, including me. but i'm not there all the time so mostly just one drummer)

( ps note: Our school is AHS in MS)


I also have the nicknames of Crash Girl (Playing Cymbals), Hippie Coffee Girl (Spilled Frape on my UNIFORM right before a competition, smelling like coffee and my trumpet player friend knows that i'm a hippie. Also, I give "Coffee" hugs. Meaning, y'know, i give hugs. I smelt like coffee x3), Potato (Racial inside joke), Super Freshie (8th Grader), & Maddy (Because my gay friend couldn't figure out my name so i told him to call me that.


btw, Super Freshies are our Drum Majors bbys

we get the love<333


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Alaalooe [2013-10-16 11:36:34 +0000 UTC]

152. You've slipped some random picture under the band teacher's door, which has nothing to do with marching band, but whatever XD

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peanutkix [2013-10-10 23:09:57 +0000 UTC]

Oh god, #147 is everyday XD The back parking lot where we practice seems to be full of wasps

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Mrfluffermankitty [2013-09-27 03:39:48 +0000 UTC]

16 happened to me. People were even laughing at me! So I just gave them the death glare. Marching backwards while other bands are watching you is so stressful. But I half to admit I love marching band.

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Blackheart546 [2013-09-02 02:07:17 +0000 UTC]

In my band, we try and kill one of the two section leaders of the trumpets, for a very good reason.

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GigaPipen1407 [2013-08-18 17:02:33 +0000 UTC]

151. Making puns of previous show names never gets old.

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Amiabletogether [2013-08-09 17:06:35 +0000 UTC]

These all apply to me. and one time we were in the band room for practice and we were doing a song that required vigorous conducting and when the band director lifted the baton up it flew out of her hand and attacked me.

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Ciel-Chauncey [2013-07-31 04:07:05 +0000 UTC]

Correction: I know I look sexy in uniform.

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Shadoe123 [2013-07-27 12:36:31 +0000 UTC]

* you say music jokes and expect them to get laughs from everyone

* you've laughed whenever someone said ""if a piano fell on you you would Bb" or some other music joke

* you want to sleep in your band uniform

* you conduct to music on the radio

* you know which key a song on the radio is

* you can add to this list

(violin player, keyboard player, percussionist, ocarina player, and triangle player since i was 8 and proud of it! and can you add some that would relate to all members of orchestra too? thanks)

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GingerBookworm985 [2013-06-18 17:57:20 +0000 UTC]

I can relate to all of these, I'm a French Horn (Melaphone during marching session) and FBHS high school in GA, but I think these could be added:
*You lost your mouth piece, pretended to play through practice and then found it in the band room when you came back
*Your band director say one more time twenty times before s/he lets you get water
*You flock to those that have food, water or a fan

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PastaandWurst [2013-06-09 19:43:03 +0000 UTC]

*your entire section (yay I'm a flute too) brings in a giant bag of Skittles and pegs them at the other sections during rehearsal
*you've hit a trumpet on the head with a Skittle from 21 yards away

along with a few others already listed

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shybaby63080 [2013-05-17 21:13:18 +0000 UTC]

ive done most of these things xD FLUTES FTW!!!

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Geckogirl11 [2013-05-12 23:58:32 +0000 UTC]

Yay flutes! :3
Wow, so many of these apply it's scary. I totally have a nickname, a name for my flute (both of them, actually)... Wow, just everything is so accurate. x3 You're making my seriously miss marching band!!

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Shadoe123 In reply to Geckogirl11 [2013-07-27 12:37:13 +0000 UTC]

what's his/her name?

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Geckogirl11 In reply to Shadoe123 [2013-07-27 18:32:58 +0000 UTC]

My concert flute is Abigail and my marching flute is Amy. :3 They're both Armstrong, so I decided on something that started with A.

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Shadoe123 In reply to Geckogirl11 [2013-07-27 18:36:01 +0000 UTC]

aww, that's cute. my violin's name is igneuse and my drum's name is ivory. how long have you been playing?

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Geckogirl11 In reply to Shadoe123 [2013-07-27 21:03:47 +0000 UTC]

I love those names! They're so classy! 

Let's see... 6ish years?

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Shadoe123 In reply to Geckogirl11 [2013-07-27 23:07:19 +0000 UTC]

i applaud the fact that you've been playing a year longer than me. so, were you a band geek or not?

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Geckogirl11 In reply to Shadoe123 [2013-07-28 19:02:27 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I am most certainly a band geek! :3


Our band camp starts tomorrow and I'm quite excited (but also super nervous, as I was selected as drum major this year and I don't know what I'm going...) But I can't wait to see all my band friends again!

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Shadoe123 In reply to Geckogirl11 [2013-07-28 22:49:04 +0000 UTC]

I'm excited for you. My band camp ended Friday, so I'm currently in a period of depression, but when you consider that it was the largest gathering of my species (band and orchestra nerds) in CT, you can understand.

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Geckogirl11 In reply to Shadoe123 [2013-07-30 21:34:52 +0000 UTC]

That's cool! 


Our band camp is a bit boring. It's just our school, and we don't go anywhere. But so far so good! My first two days of conducting have gone well!

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Shadoe123 In reply to Geckogirl11 [2013-07-30 22:23:15 +0000 UTC]

YOU CONDUCT! and you've only been playing for a year longer than me. ): Wow, your lucky to get such an important position.

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Geckogirl11 In reply to Shadoe123 [2013-08-01 21:34:40 +0000 UTC]

Nah, my conducting skills are certainly nothing to write home about. :b

But yeah. I really am enjoying getting to be a drum major. It's completely different, and there's all kinds of responsibilities I never even imagined! I just hope I'm doing a good job of it. x3


Have you tried out for leadership positions?

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Shadoe123 In reply to Geckogirl11 [2013-08-01 23:21:33 +0000 UTC]

Just keep trying and I'm sure you'll get better.


And no, not in band at lest. I'm more of an orchestra kid, since I only play the jimbe and other african drums and the other instrument I play, the ocarina, is rarely found in a band.

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Geckogirl11 In reply to Shadoe123 [2013-08-05 01:03:44 +0000 UTC]

I hope so!


And that's interesting. It's always cool to find people who play instruments on the more unique side.

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Shadoe123 In reply to Geckogirl11 [2013-08-05 01:06:50 +0000 UTC]

not really, my band teacher plays the panflute, and my orchestra teacher plays harp, and my afro-drum hippie teacher plays himself (akward to watch)

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TheBurningHand [2013-05-08 22:03:56 +0000 UTC]

Number 133 and 132 are EVIL.


I'm a percussionist. Grr...

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NightmaresDreaming [2013-04-17 23:39:43 +0000 UTC]

This is my life

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Kawaii-Sakura2274 [2013-04-02 01:47:03 +0000 UTC]

let me guess... warren central? anyway, im a freshman and section leader and i dont think my section would hurt me like tht XD i really dont do anything. i named my composite clarinet clairette and i still havent come up with a name for my intermediate clarinet. i also play a sax for jazz and a little flute, cuz my sister plays and shes in 6th grade.

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KJrencarter [2013-04-01 00:31:16 +0000 UTC]

My plume's name is Fred and my clarinet's name is Chiquita.

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BadLlamaStudios [2013-03-20 21:56:49 +0000 UTC]

Saxophone since the seventh grade! I have several of flute-friends though

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sweetpeach14 [2013-03-20 21:41:08 +0000 UTC]

*reads 32* ASDFLKSJALD!

This was so great and so true~

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BadLlamaStudios In reply to sweetpeach14 [2013-03-20 22:00:51 +0000 UTC]

Okay I'm your BROTHER and I don't know what you just said

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sweetpeach14 In reply to BadLlamaStudios [2013-03-21 11:46:44 +0000 UTC]

It wasn't supposed to be made sense of! GIBBERISH.

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Ask-FemKorea [2013-03-11 05:55:35 +0000 UTC]

Is it bad i ship trumpet x clarinet? Like the actual instruments? XDDD
It was sax x clarinet...

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Soulsaxophone [2013-02-23 18:47:05 +0000 UTC]

lololololoolol *dies*

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xXKawaiiInuXx [2013-02-16 00:01:56 +0000 UTC]

I play flute~!^^
And my dog sits next to me as I practice... for 2-6 hours... T-T

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