Ten Ways You Know You're a Fifer

1. When you hear a song you know how to play, your fingers start twitching.
2. You have a drummer joke for any occasion. Usually the occasion is responding to a fifer joke from a drummer.
3. You are used to situations where people in colonial clothing look normal and people in 21st-century clothes look weird.
4. You are justified in considering yourself an authority on good marching.
5. You know that the title of any song can be shortened to just the first word, unless it's one of multiple songs sharing a first word.
6. You can tell whether another fifer is actually playing or just faking it.
7. You look with pity upon the members of the local high school marching band.
8. You don't really know much about the views of your fife-and-drum friends - when you get together, you play, not talk.
9. You automatically gasp "OOOoooooh" when someone drops his or her fife. It's completely taboo.
10. You see one of your friends wandering around in colonial clothing listening to an iPod and drinking from a plastic water bottle...and you don't think twice.
    

Welcome to "normal."