Joke

The other day, I took a job with a local band filling in for a sick artist. We had a gig with the local Sons of Norway chapter. The problem is that the Sons of Norway like a peculiar cultural music, quite similar to the German Oompa band music, which rather limited the instruments I was to play.

I selected the tuba. As it turns out, my tuba playing was sufficiently substandard and the audience sufficiently tough that the whole band got booed off the stage before the party was half over. Thinking back, I should have remembered my Hamlet,

"Tuba or not tuba, that is the question."