Band Weather

The message said that the event was cancelled due to band weather. It must have been a true Freudian slip. What is band weather, you ask?

It is very cold outside, the band leader wrote.

I might add, it was probably in the upper forties.

She added, I don't want to go and have them sitting there with their instruments frozen to their lips and their teeth rattling in their heads.

Which reminded me of marching on the field with my cornet valves frozen stuck, a.k.a. sub-freezing. And I might add, your teeth can't rattle in your head.

So the Clint Small Pep Band won't be at the high-school game tonite. They'll be at home where it's nice and warm. I suppose that's good.

But what about those frozen valves on my cornet? And let's talk about when I walked across campus in waist-deep snow.

Ok, ok. I take it back! She had the right idea. Let's just stay home and drink hot tea. I did, after all, move to Texas and have never gone back!

4:39:54 PM   permalink: []   feedback:   comments: []