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"I am a total clutz (I like to say "cordinationally challenged" or just "walking challenged") and I am in the marching band at my school. Until I learned how to focus enough on marching to prevent collisions, I sent the entire French horn line down on numerous occasions. But the funniest was my sophomore year. We were using these huge mats out on the field, and in the middle of the show we would flip them over (they were various shapes and different colors on the different sides). The first rehearsal that we used the mats, I somehow ended up UNDERNEATH one while we were flipping it, and rolled out the other side. My band director (in the microphone because we have a huge band) asked if I'm okay, and I was laughing so hard people thought I was crying. "