You know you've been in band too long when........

kudos! band nerd are the weirdest

Im my section's squad leader and our section salute is the princess wave
and our section song is DIXIE

lol. i got in mountaineous trouble this year cuz my section leader was a nazi for the longest time. and when people act all over-oppressive and demanding and stuff i cant help but break more rules, so i easily got in trouble thrice a day for a fair bit of time.
it was fun tho, hahaha

oh and der laufer, you did xc?
how many years? what was your best 1/ 2/ 3 mile? and was your team good?
sorry to hammer you with all the questions but while i was doing xc i took it serious and even went to practice if i was sick, i loved it. and i mean loved it. xc was great.

Haha I don't mind answering. I did xc my sophomore, junior, and senior years (I didn't know about it freshman year, sadly). My best mile time is 5:40, I'm not sure about 2 miles, and my best three is 18:41. The team sophomore year was good; we made it to sectionals, then junior year was...different. We lost a lot of good runners so it was more of a recruiting year, then this year, the team didn't make it to sectionals, nor did I (I missed the cut-off by two spots!), but two of my team mates did make it, and one even went to state and finished in the top 15. So, I guess our team was good. :) I am going to miss it next year.

I totally understand the whole nazi section leader thing. Freshman year...ah, it was horrible. He was a jerk. I just hope I'm not that bad... :) I don't think I'm that bad, I just demand that everyone be able to play his or her part more or less correctly.

thats not bad at all. i got in trouble for eveything you can look for, alot of times for things i wasnt doing. =/
see since im new at the school im at this year and i came late i got stuck playing auxillary in pit, and i got EEEAAASSSYYYY parts. (laamee).
so whenever we had any bit of down time he MADE me practice my parts and id be like "your right cory, i was having ALOT, of trouble with those CRAZY average quarter notes i got goin on"
and another time i forgot my band shirt we had to wear at practice on thursdays and he made run 3 laps. that was partially my fault tho because he knew my cross country/ track background and i egged him on a little :D .
i got in trouble like 9874598459847598359834593875937597498 or more times, usually for talking to my friend who was right next to me, (also on auxillary). and half of the time i wasnt even talking. like id just glance at my friend and my section leader would be like REESE STOP TALKING!!! and my friend and i would be like hey wtf no one was talking and then hed be like shut up, dont give me that!
and at a game once we were sitting in the parking lot of the stadium waiting to put all our crap in the trailer but we needed the other band to finish firts, i whispered to my friend and with his Superman hearing, he was like REESE. QUIT TALKING. so then i made like a gun to my head motion and then he moved me halfway across the lot for talking. LAMEEE.
and there were many other humiliating moments, that many a time made me want to quit band BADD. but i survived..somehow..

wow. Yeah, I´m not that mean... I hope. I alway enjoyed watching people have to do laps. I never minded...but that is a xc thing I think.

yeah your probably right. haha, one time i forgot something i needed, and brought some shorts and my running shoes instead and i made my lap into a time trial
:D
thats probably bad, but still, oppression produces rebellion. if saddam were president id be first on the execution list

Haha. I would be right behind you. I think the worst thing that happened to my band as a whole was when we had to do 80 jumping jacks.

we just got extra practice time. whatd you guys do?

We were talking too much and not marching up to his standards.

ohhh. 80 jumping jacks isnt that bad i guess tho, i mean at least your director wasnt all hardcore about it and made you guys do 80 push ups. that would suck. but then again itd probably be too demanding.