If you think its hard to:
Carry forty five pounds of dead weight on one shoulder and stand up straight
Practice in the heat and perform in the snow
Get along with 200 people you really love (no really)
Stand in close proximity to 20 guys hitting drums with everything they've got while bopping your head like your into it
Blow until your lungs explode
Wear eight pound wool uniformsin the 110 degree heat
Watch your music and the director while exhaling, moving your fingers coordinating that with your tongue, tapping your foot while continuously listening to the other players around you so that you can makeone of a thousand adjustments
Learn several foreign languages (some of whick are completely made up)
Maintain good posture while holding a horn and runningthe 100 yeard dash (some playersoccasionally faltering, thus makingit tha 100 yeard hurdles)
Understand the sudtitle differences between "as loud as possible" and "just a little bit louder than that"
Ride the yellow dogs while the football team rides the greyhoud
Ask your parents for the money to buy you a new horn when they really want to buy you a pig andsign you up for the local chapter of the Future Farmers of America
Sell band candy in order to fund your trip to some strange and exotic city (often not so strange and exotic) and perhaps not so far away, in fact, it ay be better to eat the candy and stay home
Wear those 1930's q-tips we call shakos and chill in public
March for 10 miles in a local parade directly behind "The Mighty 100" equestrian team
Play Michael Jackson's greatest hits on an oboe
Listen to bad tuba section      Listen to good tuba section
Pay more for your instrument than you did your car
Wear those monkey suits while your parents make it a Kodak Moment
Remeber to show up for a performance with all the little things that you might need like white gloves, valve oil, YOUR HORN, you know, the little things...

Then MAYBE you're not tough enough to be 


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