Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Christmas Truce, band geek style

So the High School boys' basketball team has been on a roll and the principal (the one who looks like Dean Martin) decided the pep band should go on the road with the fans to the playoff game c. 4 hrs south of here.  B2 returned around midnight brimming with enthusiasm.  To hear him tell it, the high point of the evening was when he and his pep band cohort emerged from their entrenched positions and crossed no-man's land to greet members of the home team band....  As I imagine it, they exchanged cigarettes and chocolate, and discovered that, lo and behold, they knew the same songs.  They enjoyed a brief moment of band-geek solidarity, before both sides retreated to their foxholes to resume the exchange of fire.  (Our team lost, but I am sure that was despite the best efforts of the band).

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