I remember my days in marching band where, for some performances, we found ourselves having to quickly change as a group in some pretty small spaces. You ride to the performance in a school bus loaded with kids and band equipment, then they stuff you into some storage room to put on your uniforms. Because the Locker rooms were needed for athletes, we had to make-do with whatever was available..
We never had to take underpants off, but occasionally it was obvious some of the boys had really big ones stuffed inside, or sometimes there was some obvious tenting.
As a small 9th grader this was rather shocking things for me to see of the older boys and their accelerated development. I was never in sports, so this is the closest I ever got in school to seeing other boys in compromising situations.
Anonymous Band Kid
A couple memories about band. Yes, the teams got the locker rooms for changing and the band changed in crowded restrooms or classrooms with paper taped across the windows. Also, pretty well known by all band members, the athletic teams considered us to be queer compared to the "real men" on the team. Sometimes (distant games) we were their only fans but still they treated us like dirt.
ReplyDeleteI was not in the band but was friends (yes, THAT kind of friends) with a guy who was in the drum line. He was real short for his age, really runty-looking when he stood next to the normal sized percussion guys. He played drums like a maniac, fast, loud and almost vicious. He was the first kid in our grade (9th) to get wheels - a pickup. Plus a family hardship license to legally drive it. Picture it. Dude was smaller than anybody else but his truck was a big flashy red Dodge Ram, huge thing which he had to climb into while pulling himself up with the steering wheel. He drove like hell. I didn't know anything about psychology way back then, but I thought (and still do) that his huge truck (and probably his insane playing) were compensation for his small height.
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