You know you're in guard when...
* You have enough electrical tape to create a small country
* You have little or no friends outside of band
* You find yourself saying "It's a guard thing" at least twice a week.
* You're an expert at changing on buses, under blankets, in practice rooms...
* Your makeup is at least 2 inches thick
* You have more bruises than anyone else in band
* You have the glove tan line!
* You hang out in the band room at lunch/before school/after school...
* You name all of your equipment
* You go over all of the flag work in your head during class using your pencil
as a flag
* The first things you want to learn in another language are the words "flag",
"guard", or "dance".
* You've dated (or been asked out by) (or had a crush on) at least one drummer
on your school's drumline.
* You've dated (or been asked out by) (or had a crush on) a trumpet.
* One or more of your exboyfriends turned out to be gay.
* After football games or performances, you go with your friends out to a diner
still in full uniform and wonder why you get funny looks.
* You have people in your section that ask for milk in their ice cream or
a cheeseburger with no cheese.
* You walk in step with your friends.
* You go to other football games in town just to see their halftime show because,
hey, you honestly don't care about their football team.
* Every song is a potential winterguard show.
* You've liked someone from another guard's floor crew or from another band.
*When the referee on the football field says "there's a flag on the field!",
you automatically think of colorguard instead of football.
* There's more drama in your section than in any other section.
* It takes you a good hour longer to get ready for football games than anyone
else in your band.
* You know exactly who always has food and how to get it from them.
* You go online and look for guard websites.
* You have a language all your own with your section! (Ex: "Hey, Val, you
know the part that goes 'swishy swishy satelite catspin across?"... "Oh, yeah, Jenn, that's right after the up down
up across slice and toaster part!")
*When you talk about vacations, you're talking about guard/band competitions.
*You laugh like your section.
*You all finish each other's sentences
*You get really excited over pajama pants sales
*Finals are a good thing
*You spin rakes, mops, brooms...
*'HotHands' heating pads
are your all time best friends
*You spend far too much time watching videos of winterguard competitions
*You can talk to each other for hours just using inside jokes
*Holidays are meant for practicing
*You look for guards in movies (there's a little bit in Drumline, and then there's
some in a country song by Big and Rich...)
*You have gold stretch pants in a drawer somewhere
*It's only cold when your fingers start sticking to the pole
*When someone, anyone, says duck, even when they're talking about the animal,
you DUCK
*If you see something spinning too close to you, you can hit the floor and dive
out of the way faster than a soldier
*Sleep? What's sleep?
*If someone not in band asks you out, you find yourself saying, "I don't think
it'll work out..." because honestly... when would you see them?
*Seperate checks at restaurants are the best thing ever!
*You're stuck around a bunch of people that still call your sabre a "sword" even
though you had an entire sabre line in the marching show.
*You've seen 3:00 in the morning way too many times.
*One of your favorite things to do is recruit for winterguard!
*Your number one pickup line for a beautiful boy is "want to be on our floor
crew?"
*You're lucky if your guard instructor likes your haircut
*Your hero is someone who can chuck a block of wood or a strip of aluminum into
the air 50 ft and catch it.
*You can smile genuinely on command.
*When you talk about roommates, you're not planning for college, you're talking
about band trips.
*You become your own personal pharmacy
*You can wrap your own bandages
*Someone in your section has a bandage for any type of wound
*Your "First Aid" kit doesn't just have bandages and asprin, it has bobby
pins, hooker lipstick, and electrical tape
*The people at Home Depot know you by name
*You go into hardware stores and ask for "guard tape" or "flag tape".
*You go into Walmart and ask for "flag stoppers"
*You know the perfect spot for a toss in your favorite songs
*You don't recognize other schools by their front halls or the classrooms, just
their gym
*You get all excited when you hear a song you've done a flag routine to
*You know that "one more time" NEVER means "one more time"
*You get out of 4th period almost every Friday
*You can't count above 8 or 16
*You know more dance terms than your pom squad
*When your teachers find out how often you practice, you can get out of 20% of
your homework assignments
*You have more flag shirts than regular shirts
*You have more practice attire than regular attire
*You've never paid to get into a football game
*You've lost count how many times you've hit yourself in the head with a rifle/sabre/flag
*You use the term FRESHMAN more times than you care to think
*When you call new people in guard freshmen, even if they're upperclassmen
*When you hear 'sale/sail' you don't think of a boat or a discount, just a silk
thing
*The band room isn't your second home, it's your first- home is second because
you spend more time with your guard!
*More is Better when it comes to your makeup
*Your favorite tapes to listen to are the judges tapes from competition
*You permenantly project to press box 50
*You can mock other guards really really well
