You might be a band nerd if…

A/N this has probably been done an incredible amount of times before, but here I go…

you...

have lost all ability to walk normally, now you march at all times.

constantly walk in time with anyone who walks next to/ in front of/ anywhere near you.

sing a cadence, and everyone in marching band stutter-steps to get in time with you.

yell "Band Atten Hut!" in concert band, leaving all those who still refuse to join marching band utterly perplexed.

stop running around the track during P.E. because no-one is playing their instrument, before realizing that you are not in marching band.

Marching band is cancelled, your parents ask you "Why are you home so early?"

got a very attractive band-camp tan. One arm was burnt, and the other arm got absolutely no sun at all, due to the position of your arms as you play.

know that falling asleep on the band bus is a bad idea, as you will be rudely awakened by one instrument or another.

find it hard to be friends with a non-band person, and they find it hard to be friends with you, mostly because band is all you talk about.

know that, at any given competition, somebody will eat funnel cake while wearing black suede pants. Bad idea.

wear your band jacket one day, and when your director tells you to make sure you don't deny being in band because of the social status it could earn you, you begin strongly denying that you ever joined band.

band locker contains most of the things you thought you lost months ago. (Not as bad as some though… Someone had a three-month-old banana in their locker.)

have at least one nickname for every person in band.

know that most of these nicknames are just calling people by their instrument.

have named your instrument.

have named other peoples' instruments.

fight over who's instrument has an awesomer name.

tell other people how to play a note, even if you don't play their instrument.

get sad when a section has more people than your section.

know that quad players are consistently too lazy to help load the trailer. (at least, our quad players are)

know that "quad" is a misnomer. It has five drums, for Pete's sake! Call it a quint!

know that the only way to tune two piccolo players is to shoot one. (Sadly, we have two piccolo players. I am one of them. May the best piccolo player win.)

know that the bandroom is the best place to be.

know how to bring out your inner first grader. (or maybe that's only my band…)

always surprise yourself when you find out that you are not physically incapable of playing at a football game until 10, get to sleep at 1, get up at 4 for competition, and stay there all day long, and yet you still manage to continue functioning.

always seem to be in a position where you get run over by the drumline or colorguard.

of this, you know what it feels like to be hit in the head with a bass drum mallet and a flag in one practice.

have accidentally dropped a guard flag out of the window of a moving car.

"accidentally" dropped a piccolo down someone's sousa.

know that the bandroom is never a safe place to enter for fear that someone could be changing.

A/N Any suggestions? I tried to be general enough, rather than stuff only my band would get. I'll do a guard section too, if you want.