Meeting odd people in FIRST places
 

Has anyone else met some strange people at FIRST events? And i don't mean, just your average run of the mill FIRSTer, someone really odd?

For example, I just posted a story like this here

I've met some really strange people in FIRST places. Like this one guy, 'Dave', and this other guy 'Jason'

Other people too.


Wetzel

No more Krispy Kremes for Wetzel!!!

They certainly don't get much stranger than that Jason guy...

I met this really weird guy one time... his name was Randy, or Andy or something like that...

I think the real question is have you met any people at first events that are NOT strange. :yikes:

ummmm, 0!

Really, everyone at FIRST events is weird. Just be definition we all are weird because what we're doing there definitely isn't the norm (how many people travel such insane distances to celebrate engineering?)

Without a doubt, the weirdest guy I've met in a FIRST place is Dean. :)

Jessie Jackson and Jeb Bush. Wierd...

Dean and Woodie pretty much set the standard for FIRST.

if you met someone in a suit and tie, talking about the stock market, or football, at Deans house

now THAT would be weird!

I organized (read: had the impulse) to go get Krispy Kreme in the middle of the night for most of the Krispy Kremes that get left at your house.

I don't think you don't want me to have no more Krispy Kremes.

Wetzel
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I don't never use doubble negatives.

This one time, I met a guy named Ken. I think he was narcoleptic.

And then that Ken guy introduced me to some guy named John... I don't know what his deal was, but he was definately a few pins short of a bowling alley.

Would you said he is an older "Randy" or a younger "Randy"?
:yikes:

Very true Amanda. Speaking of those a few pins short of a bowling alley (love that one) - let's get back to those Dave and Andy/Randy guys.

Now, while we all know it may in fact be possible to find sharper/less weird tools in the shed than Ken, John, Andy/Randy, Dave, Wetzel and some others - they're just such strangely unique, lovable, and amazingly productive tools that you can't bring yourself to replace them with newer, state of the art tools.

And that, my friends, I'm fairly sure is about as far as you can stretch the "not the sharpest tool in the shed" saying. :D

The west coast regional director of FIRST just called me a tool.

I'm not really sure how I feel about that.



;)

According to Raul, it means they like you. :)

Speaking of tools, I see myself the roll of duct tape at the bottom of my tool box. Sometimes it seems to be useful, some other times it gets sticky and annoying and very hard to get off your back. The best I like about it is it's useful or annoying no matter day or night ;-). That might be a good thing or a bad thing, but I dunno.

But speaking of meeting FIRST people, I ought to start taking picture of them and form a gallery of "people to beat". Oh, did I said beat? I really meant "look up to". Someday... ;-)

Seriously, how often in life does the perfect opportunity present itself to make the reference you noticed to people like Andy, Dave, yourself, and the others I mentioned - but in a veiled way in which you don't "actually" say it? Almost never - it was like a "perfect storm", couldn't pass it up. ;)
In most cases, Raul is 99% right - as he was in your case.
(like I'm gonna give Raul 100% after he trumped me for the "word of the day", which I did have to look up..... almost.....curses)
Oh young FIRST Jedi, always so tough on yourself.

Actually Ken, if we're gonna stick with the "tool box" analogies - I think most would compare you more to either a battery (which provides the energy to make things happen) or the glue (which helps to keep things together). But I do like your duct tape reference - while it didn't seem to fit you, a few people came to mind when I read it. :)

Way too many to enumerate...

And I intend to meet more...

I meet a lot stranger people at chess tournaments than at FIRST events.....

I've never seen capes at chess tournaments.....

Then again there was that one guy who tried to eat his score sheet during a chess match.

Matt

Ooohh! Ooohh! Ooohhh! Can I be the tape measure?!!? Please! I wanna be the tape measure! I never get to be the tape measure, and it is my turn! Or, wait, no. I wanna be the Phillips head screwdriver! Yeah, that's it! The Phillips head screwdriver is me! Uhhhmmm. No, wait. I know. I wanna be the circular saw! Yeah, the circular saw! I get to rip stuff apart! Add MORE POWER!!!! Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!

-dave "The Circular Saw of FIRST" lavery


p.s.
I am not sure, but I think that Ken just said he has a shiny, silver-colored backside.

Silly me. I forgot Dave, the guy who gave me doughnuts from across the country.

He's the one that's a few Coke's short of a six pack. :rolleyes:

If I'm something in a tool box, I'll be the aluminium shards that you find in there that give you those painful splinters.

~Joseph Splinter M

Hey Dave, want to be this tool: http://www.ntv.co.jp/kasoh/past_movie/index.html ?

Check out the first movie # 65. Press "movie" to play it.

Ken, that is the best thing ever. We almost had to resort to that saw last season durring the snowstorm when we were locked out of the school.

Direct Link to Dave as a Saw



Wetzel
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