....when you associate numbers with FIRST teams....

(I'm not to sure if someone said that)

....when the girl you like is in FIRST too....

"....instead of the traditional wedding march, 3..2.1...go (the sounds at the start of a match)..." (Mr. Dillard came up with that one)

Well considering the last few posts I've put into this thread have had at least one reference to a girl I like in FIRST I think that it is pretty common now a days for FIRSTers to like each other.

...when you just finished writing a song about that really cool FIRST girl. (Still working it out though! If my band gets it finished in time you may here the DJ playing it at a regional/nats next year. :) )

...when the really cool FIRST girl you met at a FIRST competition you had actually known through Chief Delphi before hand! :ahh: (The secret is out! J.k)

...when your AIM Buddy list is 90% FIRST people and of that 90%, 70 or more you know/met through Chief Delphi.
:ahh:

*points to picture under my name... then walks away. ;)*

-when you sit in front of your computer and wait for that certain FIRST person to come on...cause you miss them...

a couple college and friendship experiences:

...you drag your roommate to a FIRST meeting and stick a dremel in her hands.

...you've only got a couple friends that aren't in FIRST... and during build season you talk to them once. Maybe.

...every guy's room that you walk into with Junkyard Wars or BattleBots on TV, you BEG them to join your team.

...your boyfriend goes to a different college, and you hound HIS professors to start a team. (Go Rose-Hulman 2004!)

I'll add more as I think of them. ;)

yeah.... 'cept i realized i think i might have screamed at him last year if he was the guy behind the SOAP counter.... awww...... but i was more interested in getting scouting info and was having some technical difficulties.

...when you walk around in a shirt that says something related to your delphi name and introduce youself as someone from 71 in hopes a fellow delphi user might recognize you. :p

You know your addicted to first when....
 

Your up at 5:30 and rather then go back to sleep you go down to the lobby of the double tree hotel to check your internet, plus your kinda happy your up so early cuz it'll give you a chance to work on your mohawk.

Re: You know your addicted to first when....
 

Only 461 and Dwarf's Mohawked Minions would say something like that!

...when people stop recognizing you as 'that girl from 71 last year' and instead know you as 'Amanda from the Prank Monkeys'. I'm telling you - in Indiana, if you start a team, every other Indiana team has got your back. :)

...when you have to check Delphi every half an hour for new updates about the Championship and your favorite teams.

...when you wake up your roommate in the middle of the night when the phone rings by screaming, "HOUSTON IS CALLING ME!!!"


haha, I'm a nerd. Ah well.

man, I love that one the best..

...when you go home take a shower and find metal pieces falling out of your hair
...when you wanna cry 'cause you're not going to the final in Houston

Yes but I thought it up first! LoL but that's not important. What's important is that alot of people agree that FIRST girls rule!

...when you sit around and wait for the first day of actual competition to start so you can watch the web cast. And cheer on your cool FIRST Girl's team. (And other favorite teams in between. (180, 108, 71, 16, 343, 168........)

...when you just know that a year to wait isn't THAT long. It only feels like it. But you know that before you know it the next season will start, and you'll be seeing her soon.

Edit: I had to get this on here fast as possible:

...when that really really Awesome FIRST girl just called you using minutes on her phone card just to see how your doing! YAY!

It was great man. FIRST and FIRSTers RULE!

....when you have a dream where you check the CD forums (yes, that happend last night, guess i was dreaming about nat's)

...when you quit your job after they wouldn't give you two weeks off to goto West Coast regionals.

Wetzel
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Anyone want to hire me in the Northern Virginia area?

...when you've spent so much time with your pit crew, they can crack a joke about you simply by looking at you, and you know EXACTLY what the crack was without them having to say it

...when you actaully introduce yourself by or go looking for members of another team by screenname (Hey, Im specialagentjim, are you trucktown68?)

...when you've got almost as many shirts from another team as you do your own

...when you really wish that someone in the pits actually had that flux capicator because the reality of how long a year is just set in...

Its not.....THAT....long....

Aww...it is... :( (Must find way to go to germany for study abroad program...or find way of getting to Indiana....whadda yall think? Yellow freight crate with air holes, think I'll get there?)

When you see someone on a segway and find it rather uncommon.