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* You walk in step with your friends, even your non-marching band friends
* you get mad at your friends when they fall out of step with you
* 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 geek. (no need to read any further; you're definitely a band geek)
* 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."
* your read budget is higher than your food budget.
* you noticed I spelled "reed" wrong & it annoyed you
* you hear music and begin to mark time
* you don't take double tonguing as a dirty joke.
* you eat dinner in the band room
* on a flute and clarinet duet, you don't need microphones to be heard
* 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
* you hear the words blow, harder, tongue, and diaphragm on a regular basis and never consider them to be dirty
* someone blows a whistle and your head automatically snaps up
* you don't mind changing clothes on the bus
* ... in fact, you actually enjoy it
* all of your friends are in band
* you remember your instrument's birthday better than your own
*... and you celebrate it
* you name your instrument
* you'd rather practice than read this list
* 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 don't mind getting up at three thirty in the morning to go play an audition in the middle of nowhere
* you remember this one time, at band camp...
* you start screaming "LEFT! LEFT! LEFT!" to the people who walk in front of you in the halls
* you consider your plume a fashion statement
* your friends are honored to the point of tears when you let them actually hold your precious instrument
* you have a collection of all the sheet music you have ever gotten, since 5th grade
* ...but of course you didn't need to keep it because you have it all memorized
* you fight for a sports locker saying, "Band is too a sport!" along with the cheerleaders
* you try to guess the tempo of your favorite songs
* you point out key changes and dynamics when listening to the radio
* people ask about your social life and you say, "Oh, you mean my flute?"
* 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 understand more Italian than English
*your marching band has sleepovers during band camp. (wouldn't that be cool?)
* you've ever scared someone *out* of being in band
* ... because you're so weird
* you've ever scared someone *into* being in band
* your email address/screen name has your instrument on it
* ... and your password has to do with your instrument
* people worry when they see you without an instrument.* (Rebecca thought I was dying the day I didn't have my piccolo)
* 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 is Allah
* you'd rather get a new instrument for high school graduation then a car
* you read this entire list and didn't stop to say "this is lame". In fact, you nodded and laughed after most or all of them

(just to let you know, ALL of these applied to me. Lol)