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Surprisingly, most of the football team and coaches understand that Marching Band is srs business at my school, except for one coach and a few players. We have two marching band members who play football as well. They don't ever say one sport is any harder than the other. They normally just tend not to want to choose.
But I have gotten into two arguments this year with some people who claimed marching band was easy.... and "gay".
Me: Then tell me. Just how is Marching Band gay?
Him: Nascar drivers work harder than you do! Marching band is just a bunch of faggots walking in a circle!
Now, I mostly ignored the nascar comment. I don't have enough knowledge on that to argue about it.
Me: How are we faggots? (I also ignored the circle comment.)
Him: Because you're in Marching Band!
Me: How is Marching Band gay?
Him: Because you're a bunch of faggots walking in a circle!
Never ending loop of stupidity.
Example Numero Dos:
Him: Are you going to the home coming tomorrow night?
Me: Yeah. I have to.
Him: Why?
Me: I'm in marching band.
Him: Band nerd!
Now, some people take band nerd as a compliment. I wouldn't mind being called that, however, I know they mean it in an insulting way. So I take offense by it.
Me: You really shouldn't insult us until you're able to do it.
Him: Band is for weenies!
Me: You wouldn't be able to handle it.
Him: It's for wimps!
Me: Wimps don't come to school 3 weeks early to practice for 8 hours straight. Wimps don't give up most of their time after school for physical exercise for three hours. Wimps can't do run laps. Wimps can't move and play instruments for 10 minutes straight. Wimps don't get up at 5:00 AM every day, or 3:00 AM for certain days with contests.
Now, I could tell he knew he had lost. This was all he could do....
Him: Look, a monkey! (he points behind me laughing. I just stare at him ashamed.)
There is a thing I've noticed. Every single person who says band is gay/easy/stupid/for wimps/for geeks has a few qualities.
1: They do incredibly poorly in school, ranging from F's to D's.
2: They are incredibly fat, overweight, and/or wimpy. There are quite a few students who have passed out in band, and these overweight people who can't run across the cafeteria without getting winded, who eat three slices of pizza a day, think they can just insult something like they actually know what it is. They act like they could do it! Refer back to the running part, the overweight part, and the pizza part, please. The football players who insult us are normally the weak ones who just sit on the bench the whole game.
There is that occasional football player or other sport player who will actually praise the band for how hard they're working. Which always shocks me. While most of the athletes don't insult us, most of them don't think anything more of us.
Well, anyway, I ranted long enough. It just makes me.... angry. People who cannot do anything at all think they're so tough by falling a trend.
Maybe I'm taking it a bit too seriously.
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