There’s a kid in the park near my house blowing on, I think, a tuba.
It’s making a sound akin to something a very large, dying animal would make.
I have a terrible urge to go put the poor tuba out of it’s misery. No musical insturment should be subject to that kind of pain…
The GeekHiker 
LOL, all I can see in my warped mind, is the guy playing the tuba in Brad Paisley’s video, “I’m much cooler online”
I can only imagine it sounds like a condor, passing gas. Hope you have earplugs.
By: dobegil on June 19, 2008
at 8:58 pm
Hee! I could be worse….bagpipes…
By: just a girl on June 20, 2008
at 12:41 am
I love that dobegil has seen that video. Wish that had been my first thought… But my actual thought was… could be worse… bagpipes… too late to be original on that one! 🙂
P.S. i hope it was a chubby kid with freckles. That would make the whole scene perfect!
By: Aly on June 20, 2008
at 1:22 am
At least it’s a good thing the kid is in the park blowing on a tuba and not sucking on a crack pipe, right?
By: charlotte harris on June 20, 2008
at 5:22 am
My daughter and I just watched Woody Allen’s *Take the Money and Run*.
The main character, a pathological criminal, played cello in his formative years.
Substitute cello for tuba and you’ve got one of the best marching band film sequences of all time.
By: Phil on June 20, 2008
at 7:27 am
Just think, he could be the next big thing. You never know. They all gotta start somewhere right?
By: Backpackermomma on June 20, 2008
at 10:14 am
Sheeeesh, what’s with all the bagpipe haters? My Scottish heritage resents that!
You probably could’ve just strategically chucked a tennis ball at the tuba and plugged it up. Or maybe you should’ve just approached him and said, “Dude, chicks don’t dig tubas, go get yourself a pair of hiking boots.”
By: Mel Heth on June 20, 2008
at 10:51 am
I think I could bear a tuba. It’s those damn Peruvian Wind Flutes I can’t stand. I’d even take a bagpipe over the Yanni wannabes.
By: Dingo on June 20, 2008
at 2:39 pm
Well, since what I “do” is play trombone, I probably wouldn’t mind the tuba. (Heck, if it really sounds as bad as you say it does, I’d probably run over there and give the kid a lesson or something.) But the real question is, why is the kid playing in the park?
Also, I really like bagpipes. (Not that that matters at all, but just to support Mel Heth.)
By: Gabe on June 20, 2008
at 8:23 pm
Dobegil – Having never heard a condor pass gas, I’m just gonna have to trust you on that one…
Just A Girl – Hmmmmmm
Aly – Didn’t see the kid, but let’s just assume so for the fun of it!
Charlotte – I suppose, but the crack pipe would be quieter… 😉
Phil – Haven’t seen that one, but now I’m intrigued…
Backpackermomma – That’s true, one never does know…
Mel Heth – Hiking boots work? Really? Would someone please inform the single women of LA of this fact?
Dingo – LOL – Would they all have the hair too?
Gabe – You would have minded this poor, poor tuba, trust me. As for playing in the park, I have no idea…
By: geekhiker on June 20, 2008
at 10:11 pm
at least he had the decency to go to the park. in my life, he would have lived next door, more than likely in the room that shares a wall with mine!
By: copasetic fish on June 21, 2008
at 4:24 am
Tuba or not Tuba, that sems to be the questions.
I’m Sorry.
By: Homer-Dog on June 21, 2008
at 5:39 am
Homer-Dog, that was super lame! 🙂 But I did smile a little.
By: Gabe on June 21, 2008
at 12:34 pm
There are two possible reasons for why he was practicing in the park.
Either:
1.He is confident enough to openly defy the stereotype of the chubby-tubaplaying-bandgeek*.
Or…
2. He is too clueless to realize that he IS the chubby-tubaplaying-bandgeek.
*Disclaimer: this comment was written by a former clarinetplaying-bandgeek. (I know of what I speak.)
By: Ms. H on June 22, 2008
at 7:29 am
Hey Geeky,
Just checking in to see how you are doing.
x
Cara
By: carahurley on June 22, 2008
at 4:20 pm
Copascetic Fish – Hmmm… maybe I would prefer the bad tuba to the screaming neighbors!
Homer-Dog – You should be sorry. 😉
Gabe – Yeah, I did too…
Ms. H – Welcome to the site. I have a third option: maybe he was playing poorly in public to win sympathy points from the band-geek girls! LOL
Cara – I do well! How are you?
By: geekhiker on June 22, 2008
at 8:53 pm
You know, Option 3 has real possibilities! He’s probably pissed that his mom made him miss instrument-selection day because of an orthodontist appointment, so he’s coping the only way he knows how! He probably wishes he was a cool trumpet player….but all in all he’s glad he didn’t get assigned the bass drum. At least when he’s playing his tuba in the park he has a clear sight-line. With a bass drum, he’d be crashing into trees and mowin’ people down left and right! And that would TOTALLY be overkill for trying to garner sympathy. What girl wants to go out with the guy who walked into a tree?!
I gotta hand it to him. He’s a pretty smart cookie. :0)
By: Ms. H on June 23, 2008
at 12:18 am
Ms. H – Heh, why didn’t I think of the “tuba trick” when I was a kid? LOL
By: geekhiker on June 23, 2008
at 8:24 pm