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lol Water??? I'm sure that just wrecked your bit.. Try some Go-Go juice on the bit next time.. Water is never good on the metal parts!!! :p

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I'm afraid to ask what this 'go-go juice' is. :)

Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done, related to FIRST?
 

Ok, so let's see...

Steve, Brian, Dana, Greg and I definitely had some fun in the hotel at last year's Canadian Regional. Steve was going to the army and we decided to have some fun... I talked one of the girls into giving me their room key (took me an hour). We ended up overflowing their toilet with ice. I went into someone else's room accompanied but talked him into letting me stay to look for something I may have lost (process took 30 min) - this resulted in the door being wedged open... Steve, me, etc. rearranged the whole room and reveresed the mattress/spring box - "Why is this so hard?". Shu's ice bed was another fun event. I don't feel like listing more at the moment.

This was dumb because of all the trouble we could've gotten into. This was awesome because it entertained a large group of people. :)

Including the girls with the ice-toilet... they used it to cool drinks ;)

Oh, what to do this year?

Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done, related to FIRST?
 

lol It's just a lubricant you use when milling or drilling metal parts so phenomenon as described by Crop Circles don't happen!!

I don't know if Go-Go Juice is the technical name, but that's the name I hear it called more often than not in the shop during robo-season.

Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done, related to FIRST?
 

I stabbed myself in the finger with a Letterman while trying to saw balsa wood. That was pretty cool :p

Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done, related to FIRST?
 

Well once, I went to a team carwash to raise money...for the wrong team. I was a freshman too so I didn't know I was at the wrong place until I started cleaning cars and they said something about "PantherTech" and I was like "Well...we are the Technokats right?" and they all laughed and I then almost peed my pants >_<

Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done, related to FIRST?
 

Wow!!! That is the funniest post I have ever read here.

Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done, related to FIRST?
 

Where some people will say the dumbest thing I've ever done is push Dave to murderous mutterings, I disagree. The dumbest thing I've done is almost leaving one of our students behind at Annapolis, and it was completely my fault. And he's one of our best students, too! I wasn't supposed to be the chaperone, but the parent who was had a death in his family and had to leave on Friday. I was the only adult with the security clearance to be the official chaperone on the bus ride home, so what else could I do? Well, after the closing ceremony, I gathered all of the kids in one area while one of the adults went to find the bus. She was supposed to call another parent with the information but never did (turns out she called that parent's home phone). One student, Kyle, asked if he could run back to our pit area to look for his coat, so I said yes, and told him to meet us out front. We herd everyone else outside, and try to keep them from spreading out and mixing into the crowd... a parent called the bus driver for location and we all head over there... On the bus, we take role... When Kyle's name comes up, I say, "He went with his father." (which he could have, but I don't know why he didn't). The bus is slowly inching foward when Kyle comes running up to the bus... whew! Lucky break for a horrible chaperone!

Heidi

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Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done, related to FIRST?
 

*OUCH* I didn't almost, I did leave her behind.

Last year at Phoenix a best student told me she was running back in the motel and would be right back. I forgot, we all climbed into the cars and went to competition without her. She was pissed and upset. I didn't blame her at all. I felt terrible. She walked to the competition - 4 miles. No one had realized she was gone. Thank goodness she was a senior, self-confident girl rather than a freshman. Her dad was with us. I apologized and it took her awhile to be ok with me. I failed miserably that time. I'd be upset if people left me behind.

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I'm almost afriad to post this. All I will say is that if you were in our hotel in Philly about two years back. You probably heard about a kid that tied himself up. That was me.