I was a percussion major when I was in university, and during a particular rehearsal of the student orchestra, my section kept getting things worse.

“When you’re too dumb to play anything,” the professor conducting us sneered, “they give you a couple of sticks, put you in the back and call you a percussionist.”"

A friend next to me whispered, “And if you’re too dumb to hang on to both sticks, they put you in front and call you a conductor.”

上大學時我主修打擊樂，在一次學生交響樂隊的彩排中，我所在的打擊樂區表現不好，老是出錯。

指揮我們的教授冷嘲熱諷地說：“要是一個人笨到什么都不會演奏，我們就會給他兩個小棍兒，讓他到樂隊后部去，我們管這樣的人叫打擊樂手。”

我身邊的朋友悄悄對我說：“要是一個人連兩個小棍兒都搞不定的話，就讓他樂隊最前面去，我們管這樣的人叫指揮。”

（通訊員李斐然）