{"id":847,"date":"2004-07-18T22:24:33","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T01:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=847"},"modified":"2011-06-05T14:32:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T19:32:01","slug":"band-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/band-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Band Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not wanting to leave things on a downer like the last post&#8230; I present an honest to goodness conversation between me and my nine year old that took place a half an hour ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> Sammi, like her siblings, has some kind of musical gene in her&#8230;. but rather than follow her sisters and sing in Chorus, she&#8217;s decided to join the band. Carole picked up her trombone FROM the music store yesterday (A trombone??? Couldn&#8217;t save us money and use my Bass guitar? Obviously the schools are no longer interested in teaching kids how to play &#8220;Eruption&#8221; or &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221; anymore anyway.).<\/p>\n<p>She starts &#8220;Band Camp&#8221; tomorrow. As usual, I have no clue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> So what do you do at band camp?<br \/>\n<strong>Sammi:<\/strong> We all go to band camp, and bring our instruments and&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> &#8230;play Kumbaya by the campfire?<br \/>\n<strong>Sammi:<\/strong> NOOOOOO! It&#8217;s in the auditorium. We&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it dangerous to start a fire in the auditorium?<br \/>\n<strong>Sammi:<\/strong> DADDY!!! No. We set up our instruments and [Teacher&#8217;s name]&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> Sets up the tents? Brings Smores? What if a skunk goes INTO your tent?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sammi:<\/strong> THERE&#8217;S NO TENTS! IT&#8217;S IN THE AUDITORUM!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Oh man, driving past them is bad enough, but a skunk at close range and INDOORS???&#8230;. PHEW!<br \/>\n<strong>Sammi:<\/strong> DADDY! LISTEN TO ME! It&#8217;s in the auditorium! We set up our instruments and [Teacher&#8217;s name] shows us how to take care of them and we learn how to play&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> &#8230;Kumbaya? It&#8217;s only five or six notes. Then she makes Smores?<br \/>\n<strong>Sammi:<\/strong> NOOOO! There&#8217;s no Smores! I wish&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> But you&#8217;d get all that marshmallow\/chocolate goop in your instruments. Parents will be mad as h&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Sammi:<\/strong> DAAAADDY!!!! LISTEN! She shows us how to play and we go home.<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> WITH A CAMPFIRE IN THE AUDITORUM??!!? You guys are gonna burn the school down!!!<br \/>\n<strong>Sammi:<\/strong> UGGGGH!!!! I&#8217;m gonna go talk to Mommy, you&#8217;re nuts!<\/p>\n<p>*storms out of the loft and watches Edward Scissorhands with her mother downstairs*<\/p>\n<p>Kids! Yeesh! Do any other parents out there HAVING problems trying to get though to their kids? I never found out what Band Camp is, she wont tell me&#8230;. can someone PLEASE EXPLAIN it to me???<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m concerned now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not wanting to leave things on a downer like the last post&#8230; I present an honest to goodness conversation between me and my nine year old t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-e-show"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Band Camp - WHUZZUP!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/band-camp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Band Camp - WHUZZUP!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not wanting to leave things on a downer like the last post... 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