You know you're a band nerd if..

[treblemaker]

I found this on the net and thought it was entertaining. Enjoy. :]

 

 

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...you aren't in band, and you understand this list completely and more than ten of these articles apply to you.

...you 'band' with your friends instead of 'bond'.

...you can't walk and chew bubble gum, but you can march a perfect 8 per 5 with your eyes closed.*

...you're really hoping the stuff on this list will be applicable because you really want to be a band nerd. (no need to read any further; you're definitely a band nerd)*

...you list your band director as an emergency contact.*

...all your idols are dead. And have been for several centuries.*

...You couldn't say that because you worship your band director/drum major/insert_name_of_favorite_living_composer/classical_musician_here

...you make band jokes in a class where there are no other band people.*

...then try to explain, get exasperated, and have to say "It's a band thing."*

...you list your band director as a reference on job applications.

...you know that you "Don't go there."*

...you've ever counted the tiles on the ceiling of your Biology teacher's class room to get him to go to the band room.*

... you do fire drills, you complain that your teacher should let you go to the band room, since that is where you'd be in a real fire.* (gotta protect the clarinet)

...you hear music and begin to mark time.*

...people want to contact you, so they call the band room.*

...your favorite song is by someone who died over a hundred years ago.*

...you eat lunch in the band room.

...and usually dinner, too.*

...your read budget is higher than your food budget.*

...you noticed I spelled "reed" wrong & it annoyed you.*

...you don't take double tonguing as a dirty joke.*

...infact, you still don't get it.

...you can tune a tenor sax.*

...you remember this one time, at band camp...*

...you fight for a sports locker saying, "Band is too a sport!" along with the cheerleaders.*

...you're in step with the people infront of you.*

...you try to guess the tempo of your favorite songs.*

...you think band camp is fun.*

...you didn't realize other people don't.*

...you point out key changes and dynamics when listening to the radio.*

...all your friends are in band.

...because you made them join.

...you dream about band.*

...marching band.*

...in movements.

...all you can think about is getting a new instrument, or...

...the new instrument you just got.*

...one year, four months, eleven hours, and 35 minutes ago.*

...on a flute and clarinet duet, you don't need microphones to be heard.*

...you respond to band geek/dork.*

...and tentatively tell them it's "band nerd".*

...and you're proud of it.*

...you actually get instrument jokes.*

...without realizing they're jokes.

...you get excited when people get new instruments.*

...you skipped school to get your new instrument.*

...the entire day.*

...with your parent's permission.*

...but came back for band.

...someone blows a whistle and your head automatically snaps up.*

...you don't mind changing clothes on the bus.*

...infact, you actually enjoy it.

...every guy/girl you're interested in is in band.*

...you remember flats and sharps better than your name.

...you like wearing your uniform.*

...you didn't realize other people don't.*

...people ask about your social life and you say, "Oh, you mean my clarinet?"*

...you've every lost sleep before an audition.*

...you see notes and clefs everywhere you look, even if they're not really there.* (you know, D: looks sort of like a base clef with a line infront of it)

...you're alone and you suffocate because no one's telling you to breathe.

...people have commented on how much you look like your instrument.

...you're the webmaster of your band's website.

...you can play more than one instrument well.*

...not counting your primary made in different keys. (ei: A Clarinet, C Trumpet)

...you understand more Italian than English.

...you've devoted pages to band on your website.*

...your entire site is about band.*

...all of your conversations eventually get around to the subject of band.

...unless you started them, because then they're already about band.

...your marching band has sleepovers during band camp. (wouldn't that be cool?)

...you have to explain to the freshmen about each and every member of the band.**

...and you enjoy it.

...you've ever scared someone *out* of being in band.*

...because you're so weird.*

...you've ever scared someone *in* to being in band.*

...you can finish other band members' sentences.*

...your email address/screen name has your instrument on it.*

...and your password has to do with your instrument.*

...you think it's funny to hide someone's music.*

...but realize it's suicidal to hide their instrument.*

...but think that's really funny too.*

...you think it's funny to write on a trumpet with a dry erase marker.*

...your instrument has a name.

...and more than three people know it.

...your instrument has a nickname.

...and more than three people know it.

...your instrument doesn't have a name, but you have a whole philosophy about how naming it would limit its diversity and ability to grow and adapt.*

...you remember your instrument's birthday better than your own.

...and you celebrate it.

...making a line is your biggest accomplishment of the day.*

...people ask about your social life and you say, "Are you going to be at the pep band on Friday?"*

...you practice your instrument more than you talk to your dog.*

...you like practicing your instrument.*

...you didn't realize other people don't.*

...people worry when they see you without an instrument.*

..."armed guard" means a person with a flag pole, not a guy with a gun.*

...you're used to how weird drummers are.*

...you didn't realize drummers are weird.

...backwards marching no longer reminds you of ballet.

...backwards marching never reminded you of ballet.*

...but now that you mention it...*

...you wear your marching shoes to school.*

...you wear your marching shoes to places other than school, also not involving band.*

...and not just to break them in.*

...you see your section more than your family.*

...you didn't realize this was strange.*

...you worship your director as God.

...and your drum major as Allah.

...and you didn't realize this was weird.*

...everyone wants to kill the other football team... and you want to kill the other band.*

...then decide it's not worth it since your band is so much better anyway.*

...you have dreams about band.*

...about your director.

...about your drum major.

...you think marching practice should be longer & there are way too many water breaks.*

...you accidentally call your director Dad.

...you've been inside your director's car.

...his house.

...you own a band shirt.*

...and not just because it's required.*

...and more than one, too.*

...from different places.*

...one for every day of the week.*

...you actually can sight-read.*

...you can put on a uniform in under ten minutes.*

...and you've timed yourself doing it. (Courtesy of KC)

...you like the way reeds taste.*

...you didn't realize other people don't.*

...you like the smell of your instrument.*

...infact, it's quite comforting.*

...Burger King is part of your daily diet.*

...your band director really is always right.*

...you decide that you want to learn every single band instrument before you graduate.

...you like being in places with egotistical trumpet players.*

...you didn't realize this was weird.*

...because you didn't realize they were egotistical.

...you start to spell Band with a capital B.

...your band director, drum majors, section leader, band captains, and drill instructors are all on your speed dial, or...

...why have them on speed dial when you have them all memorized anyway?

...all of your rides home are from band people.*

...bonus point if it's your drum major, captain, director, or section leader--*

...you can really relate to Michelle from American Pie.

...you actually know who Michelle is.*

...and you think she's cool.

...you wish you could go to band camp all summer.*

...you no longer think it's weird to be refered to as a number on a drill sheet.*

...infact, you never did.*

...come to think of it, you think it's pretty cool to be refered to as "C10".

...your favorite thing to do is practice.

...your second favorite thing to do is read band jokes.

...your third favorite is marching practice.

...because you just love high-stepping, I mean show-stepping.*

...you send funny music pages to all the musicians you know.*

...plus the nonmusicians you know.*

...not that you know any nonmusicians.*

...you actually understood why people got their awards at the band banquet.*

...you think it's cute to teach your dog to bark the school fight song while the band plays it.*

...you can automatically recite the first 7 letters of the alphabet.*

...and you can't remember the other 19.

...you roll-step so you don't spill your lunch.*

...or just for the heck of it.*

...you'd rather practice than read this list.*

...or write it.*

(40 minutes later))

...you get more than half the jokes on this list.*

...you get all the jokes on this list.*

...and aren't offended by them.*

...because you didn't realize they were jokes.

...you hang out in the band room before, during, and after school.*

...during your study period.*

...over the summer.*

...even on weekends occasionally.*

...you think your band director is cool & your drum major is God.

...you've ever been complimented by your band director.*

...you take lessons from your band director.

...you talk more about band than anything else.*

...accidentally.*

...you play along with your band's CD.*

...for fun.*

...you've ever jog-stepped during PE.*

...high-stepped.*

...done the really cool Cal Band drum major back bend where their hat touches the ground (or at least attempted to)

...you've ever started a sentence with, "There was this one time at band camp..."*

...without realizing it.*

...you've ever been to a non-school affiliated summer band camp.*

...willingly.*

...and had fun.*

...and didn't realize that was weird.*

...you know your band director's phone number.

...you know your drum major's phone number.*

...you know your band director's liscence plate number.

...you relate everything to band.*

...you have an involuntary foot tapping to any music.*

...you don't mind getting up at three thirty in the morning to go play an audition in the middle of nowhere.*

...infact, you enjoy it.*

...you know how many people are in the band.*

...in each section.*

...and their names.*

...you know more people in band than in your graduating class.*

...you've ever been hysteric over a piece of music.*

...your car automatically goes to the parking spot nearest the band room.

[rpd]

Some of those are pretty funny. I actually came up with one driving the other day.

 

You know your a band nerd if you notice two BOA finalist as neighborhood names on one road.

 

I saw Westfield and Cedar Park

[borchnork]

dang. I think I met about 20 of those at least.

 

I stopped reading about 25 or so into it because it was only making me feel more and more nerdy. =]

[Nancy08]

Wow I went through all of these at school and, well...I'm not gonna say how many applied to me. My nickname already is "the ultimate band nerd," so I see no reason to prove it