One of my high school nightmares came true (not to me, thank goodness)

Sneezing Trombonist

All through Junior High and High School, I played trombone (occasionally tuba or sousaphone, but mostly trombone).  I've been asked before why I played trombone rather than something traditional - might I point out that trombone sections tend to be filled with cute football players and wrestlers during their off-season, while flute sections tend to be filled with blonde cheerleaders.  I leave the rest of the explanation to your imagination.

At any rate, I wasn't bad - although trombone sections don't tend to get a lot of solos (you really don't ever want to see the sheet music for the trombone part on "Hot Lunch Jam" - something like 128 measures of the same 7 notes repeated), so it wasn't hard to be first or second chair.  But I was terrified that something like this would happen during a concert.  Actually, the thing that really terrified me was the possibility of losing the slide during a quick 1st-7th-1st move, but sneezing came second.