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Okay so, I haven't seen a topic directly dedicated to band bus rides. So, I made one. Heres where you can post funny/mean/sad/weird stories about things that happen while on the band bus.

So, I was sitting on the bus on the way to competition and the guys next to me went through my purse when I wasn't paying attention and got the cheez it's out of it. They threw cheez its at my shirt to try to see who could make it down there first. Right as a cheez it came near my chest in a very ninja-like way I hit it away and it hit the guy in the eye. Revenge was sweet!

Why did you have so many people in the front? Where was the back0.o

I love long bus rides. it is so much fun. Except this bus ride:

So at our first and only festival so far(we have one this sat) we got on the bus afterwards. Well, it took about 20 minutes to get the bus moving. It wouldn't move. It stalled once and restarted, then it finally moved. Well, we are on the street now, moving for once. We get to a road that has a stoplight at the top of a hill(its an overpass) and so we are stopped on this steep uphill, with a line of cars behind us. The light turns green for us to turn, and the driver starts trying to go forward. We go backward. by now I'm terrified. i already hate buses. I don't need to get in a bus accident, and i'm in the back moving backwards. Joy...Well, the van behind us is trying to back away(we are moving fairly slow) and by now the light is red again. Finally we move forward, though slowly. We finally get to a point where we are flat enough that the bus doesn't go as far back. Needless to say, the van never movedXd They were quite far away from us aftr the last tryXD the light turns green and after a moment of yet again not moving we finally go, and forward this time. Bus driver speeds down the next road and we get to the road after it, where we only have to follow it and turn once to get home. The bus dies on us...AND THE DRIVER RESTARTS IT AND KEEPS GOING! I'm officially clinging to my seat and claribelle, praying for my life, and the driver is speeding down the road! My face is seriously a mix of eek and gonk At one point we get stuck behind a line of turning cars. The DRIVER DRIVES THRUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD! Now I am completely terrifed. Finally we turn onto the road our school is on, the bus dies one more time(yet again the driver restarts the bus.) and finally we get back to school. it was real scaryXD

I was fortunate to sit next to the seniors boys of this year on the bus last year.

They would bring a boombox and sing.
loud.
we got the whole bus to go slow-mo on the slow-motion song (a.k.a. Chariots of Fire) it was awesome. Until someone farted.

We also sang the Romanian version of the Numa Numa song.
It sounds like he's saying "she's like a slutty gay"...
needless to say, we are no longer able to sing it...

and Miley Cyrus (wtf?) was popular...
yup.

we drove 10 hours to nyc a few years ago, so naturally, we watched movies. on the way home our band director asked us for a vote on who wanted to watch across the universe, and didn't even count before saying, "we're watching it because i want to". he also gave us candy to shut up and wait another half hour before getting food. he tossed reeses at everyone except one kid and was like "none for you evan razz "

We don't have boys and girls on seperate buses. In fact, there isn't even a rule about boys and girls sitting next to eachother. there is a rule about no sex, though.

Well, the friday after thanksgiving, because it was thanksgiving and our bd was out of town, only a pep band went to the game(the pep band consisted of whoever ws willling and able to go. Unfortunately, i was out of town as well) Well, aparently, something happened in the back of the bus that made one of the band parents sit back there. Frankly, i'm not sure I want to know. Two hour bus ride without a bd is never a good idea.

And our buses go low brass/guard/percussion on one bus(appropriately named bus 1) and clarinets/flutes/trumpets on the other. The dms go with whatever bus they would be on were they not dms(low brass players with low brass, etc) and the bd goes on bus 1. Well, I'm bus 2. It is pretty fun. And fortunately for us, when the district decided to be stupid and make us share our two buses with the cheerleaders, bus 1 got the cheerleaders, bus 2 did notXD Of course, some bus 1 people had to come to bus 2, and vice versa. apparently, the cheerleaders were bootie dancing, cheering, and being obnoxious and disturbingXD The bus 1 bandies came off blinking, rubbing eyes, and basically pretty scared and scarred for life. Haha! Try calling us wood suckers now! We weren't trapped with obnoxious, booty dancing cheerleaders, now were we?

I love band bus rides!
anthony had to pee one time when we were on the freeway, but we were in traffic, so we couldn't get off. he went in a gatorade bottle.

most of the time, we play poker or 21, because egyptian war is too difficult to play in a moving vehicle, but I have yet to win; that honor (and most of the band's money) usually goes to jeesup :

and the bus driver forgot how to get to our various schools (all city, not my school) so we had to giver her turn by turn directions as we went along. that same trip, brianna puked in the back and richard licked it (on accident, but still gonk )

Not quite as bad as when a different bus driver (still all city) got totally lost and wouldn't take our directions. we ended up being like, an hour late.

and I'm not even going to try and go into the various lewd things that go on in the back of the bus

We were going to an away game against our school's rival for our 50-something annual football game. Once we reached the campus, we rolled down the windows and let them have it. Chants, insults, etc. They were booing, thumbs down, flipping us off, etc. Our crowd outside was chanting with us. We lost. 40 to jack nothing. However, it didn't stop the boys bus from having fun. We were still yelling at them, and soon at innocent bystanders (laughing and pointing at a guy pushing his stalled car, asking/yelling for a #2 combo at a Burger King, and telling road workers to get back to work/"GO BUILD MY HOUSE!" Hilarity freaking ensued. Oh yea, a guy flipped us off because my friend told him "HEY! GIVE ME YOUR BIKE!"

That's all for now. I'll wait until Winter drumline for more.

for me, EVERY bus ride is odd... people sing, dance, get "krunk", start fights, etc. but one time, on the way home from our last marching competition, we played a game of truth or dare...
it went pretty much like this: my friend jimmi ended up licking our hornline captain's feet. my brother ended up having to chew our hornline captain's gum. my best friend mike had to lick the seat that our hornline captain was sitting on. my other friend maiceo had to give our hornline captain a lapdance. everyone i have mentioned in this post so far has been a guy. i am now deeply worried about our hornline captain.
and while all of this was going on, there was an extremely whorish couple in the back of the bus, doing some severly innapropriate things.
and when the director put a stop to the game of truth or dare, we turned to making fun of the freshmen. first was cameron, a trumpet player, who everyone calls gay, because he's slightly feminine. then cameron pulled a ninja distraction move and made a racist joke against jews (directed towards our single jewish member of the band), and got everyone on the bus making fun of him. earlier our band director had said that if we won, he would let us cut his hair and moustache. we had won, and my friend mike (the same mike that licked the seat) yelled out loud "WE SHOULD CUT HIS MOUSTACHE TO LOOK LIKE HITLER'S!" he was sitting right next to the jewish kid, jeffery. the look on jeffery's face was priceless.