-If you're laughing at something that's really not funny, it's because you have earlybird and are so sleep-deprived that anything is funny to you.
-If someone tells you to smell their instrument or their reed...don't do it.
-Never believe someone who says it's "condensation"... because it IS spit.
-If you play a grossly wrong note, give someone in your section a nasty look as if they did it.
-If you take your instrument apart really fast, it flings spit on people.
-The people who complain the most about speedbumps while on a bus are the people who constantly sit in the back, where hitting the bumps is the worst.
-No matter how bad your band can be, you'll never be worse than the football team :)
-No matter how hard he tries, the trombone player can't blame it on his reed.
-Nothing is a secret in band. We all know.
-Do not let anything containing caffeine or sugar in it near a band member before 8 in the morning. Ever.
-If you fall asleep on the bus, you'll wake up with gummy bears up your nose, and about 12 pictures proving it.
-If it's a "drummer thing", it's best if you didn't know.
-If you don't know the music, fake it. This works until she goes around the room and makes you play it one by one. In that case, blame it on your reed.
-As soon as you think flutes are unbearably high, someone rips out a piccolo.
-Put too much cork/slide grease on your instrument, and I guarantee you'll wind up with only half of your instrument by halftime.
-If you're a double reed player, never eat a rainbow sprinkled cookie 10 minutes before a concert. Trust me.
-Terrible pictures you think have been destroyed DO have negatives and CAN be recopied.
-Past band directores can and will come back to haunt you down the line.
-No matter how snotty the little out of town junior high band kids are, they cannot leave their soda can in the band hall (and Anni will make sure of it)
-To set your instrument down on a chair is to have someone sit on it.
-Only the coolest people can pull off singing along with Disney movies.
-Cork grease is not chapstick but it IS pretty funny to see non band people go through your stuff and put it on and then ask you why it feels so weird :)
-When you get home, hide your instrument somewhere where you can't see it so you will forget to practice.
-No one knows who is who when the entire band is in their uniform, so feel free to pick your nose, adjust your bra or boxers, or pick a wedgie. If someone has it on tape, deny it.
-Cork grease never comes off your hands. It absorbs into your skin and becomes a part of you.
-Just because you don't sleep for 4 days, doesn't mean you can't have a good time.
-The 'whoosh' cheer in pep band is so incredibly fun that it should be done even for the opposing team.
-Sleep, and time to do homework are privledges, not rights.
-If you put the strap on your shako on too tight you wont be able to talk. But that is a good thing for some people ;)
-If you're not sure when to come in on a piece, just go for it, because if worst comes to worst, you have a solo!
-Band dresses look like trash bags. Actually, I take that back....I could make a better dress out of a trash bag.
-If you write "slap his butt" on the back of a piece of music, sooner or later, it will be passed in and everyone will see it.
-You'll have to pick a wedgie or pick your nose during the most unconvenient time. That, or you'll have a rock in your shoe. Trust me.
-Your plume can not and will not eat you no matter what anyone tells you.
-If you get up 5 minutes before you have to be at earlybird, no matter how fast you run around the house getting ready, you will not make it on time. Even if you do your makeup in the car.
-You don't need sleep. It can be done later.
-If you mindlessly start tapping your foot or marking time to music, and a non-band person asks you what you're doing, nonchalantly tell them you were stomping on a bug.
-People will be stupid. Constantly. But you love them anyways :)
Submitted by Priscilla:
* It is crucial that you always wear sunscreen during band camp... or any
other time you're out in the sun all day long... lol @ Paige! ;)
* To be on time is late. To be early is on time. (credit to srs. of '02)
* NEVER lay on the band room floor... ya never know what was spilled on that carpet...
* It's not good when you put on pretty pink lip gloss right before you play your reed instrument... or any kind of wind instrument for that matter.
* No matter how quiet they can sometimes seem at school... drummers are drummers and they are all loud!!! ::nudges bro:: (See: at home)
* Just because someone is a sax player doesn't necessarily mean they are a monkey!
* Leaving stuff in your band jacket pocket is sometimes: a good thing...you can find that missing money you had once upon a time
~~a bad thing because you think you actually lost something when it was literally under your nose the whole time!
