Top 10 Reasons you know it's Marching Band Season

10. Your father starts submitting prop & pit equipment to the U.S.
Patent office.

9. You consider adding your Dry cleaner to your Christmas card list.

8. You list your band room as your home address and your band
director as “next of kin”

7.  You have the Booster Club officer’s phone number posted next to
the caller ID so you know to let the machine get it.

6. “Want to do something friday?”  “Can’t.  Halftime at game.”  “How
about Saturday?”  “Can’t.  Band contest.”
“Next Friday?”  “Can’t.”  “Next Saturday?”  “Can’t.”  Repeat for next
three months.

5. You’re out of bed before the sun comes up on Saturday instead of
your usual noon wake-up time.

4. No one recognizes you with makeup on and your hair fixed.

3. You start measuring distance in how many steps it takes to get
there, and try to get there in half that number of steps.

2. Your dog gains ten pounds because you don’t have time to walk
him.

And the #1 reason you know it’s Marching Season is...

1.  You actually start looking forward to 10-hour bus rides away from
home with 100 of your closest friends.

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