You know you're a band geek when...

1. Piccolos don't make you twitch.
2. You and your friends fight over whose instrument is cooler.
3. You nearly burst into tears when you don't get a superior on your Solo & Ensemble performance.
4. You do the same when you do get a superior on your Solo & Ensemble, but they're tears of joy.
5. You've tested to see if you can fit in the tuba/percussion cubbyholes.
6. If you find you can, you call to your friends to come see.
7. By the time you graduate you'll have five or six pep band pins because you've been in it since middle school . Yea!
8. You and the rest of the band in general fight over who gets to eat lunch in the band room.
9. You and your friends go to the band room for study hall to practice.
10. You've dated a band member.
11. You've dated more than one band member.
12. You have or have had a crush on someone in band.
13. You think band in general should become a contact sport. C'mon, have the football players ever had to deal with spit flying out of horns, mouthpieces being slammed into faces, or the beast (Blome's 100 year old bari sax)?
14. You devise a plan to flood the bottom risers in the band room and make a jacuzzi.
15. You have played an instrument older than you are.
16. You have tried out every instrument in the band.
17. You have tried to play more than one instrument at once.
18. You have succeeded in playing more than one instrument at once.
19. You hum and/or tap your pep band music in class
20. Your friends join in humming/tapping their parts.
21. You want to be in marching band.
22. You listen to ska because it proves that brass instruments can rock, too! Not that we needed ska to prove it in the first place, it just makes it clearer. ;)
23. You know what a fluglehorn is.
24. You create a website just for band.
25. You plan on getting a tattoo of a bass clef/treble clef/ eigth note.
26. You show off your new music to your friends.
27. Band is the highlight of your day.
28. You draw little characters in band uniform.
29. You create a whole little collection of characters in band uniforms.
30. You demand your instrument be called by its name.
31. You say thank you when someone calls you a band geek.
32. You cried when your instrument got it's first dent.
33. To get back at your noisy neighbors, you played Hot Cross Buns from 10 pm until 2 am in twenty different keys.
34. You brush your teeth before you practice.
35. You listen to the radio and think, "Hey, this would make an awesome pep band song!"
36. You make up parodies of songs which result in names like "She Thinks my Tuba's Sexy."
37. You listen to rock bands and think, "Hey, where's the brass section?"
38. You have licked your mouthpiece clean when you've forgotten to wash it before a concert.
39. You've gotten high off of the following products; slide oil, valve oil, tuning slide grease, condensation from your instrument.
40. You have grown to like the taste of slide/valve oil.