ALWAYS warm up

To those of you who think we musicians can just whip out our instruments and play anything, that is a LIE.
We MUST warm up.
This is why I don't like situations like the following:
(Neumanns go to someone's house)
(Someone has piano in house)
(Vicki forces Zach to play piano)
(Zach plays piano in a mediocre fashion because he is not warmed up)
With the piano, though, you can flex your fingers rapidly, and that helps, kind of.
No such thing for the trumpet.
It's when the young Taps-ers of the world NEED to warm up that the John Andersons of the world are making speeches, and you CAN'T warm up.
In case you didn't get it yet, I had to play Taps today for Memorial Day.
But I wasn't warmed up the first time around.
I didn't have a CHANCE to warm up.
So, it was AWFUL.
Even worse, I was at a Catholic cemetary, and the PRIEST was there.
I don't have a good handle on life, but I do know that you should NEVER anger a Catholic priest.
Scary.
Anyway, the SECOND time around, there was about a million people there.
My old piano teacher.
Mr. Armconnect.
A weird guy in a tie-dye shirt.
And I played it PERFECTLY.
Figures.