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I got the idea for this thread, I don't know where, but I thought it could be one of those fun long threads. Everyone please post no more than ten. Try to keep each one the last part of the sentence to the title of this thread. No long stories please. I also made a thread "I Love It When..." that will follow the same idea.

Here's an example post (that is my own "I Hate It When..."):

...the battery flies out the back of your robot because you forgot to put in the retaining hardware.

Post away!

.....you get to a competition and you realize you forgot something or someone :p

....you get to competition and you realize that the someone/something you forgot was your robot.

...when I fall off my lawn mower while racing.

http://www.letsmow.com/

a girl dosent call you back :(

...my alarm clock goes off. :mad:

Chemistry. That's it, just that. It's the only class that I have gotten an 'F' grade in.

Nitrate, nitrite my rear.

... I take one of those long steel blades with the serration on one side (a hacksaw blade) - yeah, a hacksaw blade! ... and I stick it in in my shoe becuase I have that itchy, irritating, puss-emitting, rashy stuff (athlete's foot) - yeah, athlete's foot! ... and the hacksaw blade starts to tear into my foot and accidentally cuts one of those things that carries blood (a vein) - yeah, a vein! ... and blood starts gushing out of my shoe and causes me to slip while standing on one of those moving staircase things they have at malls (an escalator) - yeah, an escalator! - so that I fall down and get my shirt caught in the part of the escalator when the stairs end and you gotta step off... but I can't because my shirt is stuck and I have this hacksaw blade in my foot... and people are walking over me, 'cause there is a sale at the Gap.

I just hate it when that happens (me too!).


For you younger folk... this was an ongoing skit that was on Saturday Night Live. The two guys in the skit were Billy Crystal and Joe Piscipo... it was fairly funny stuff.

OK... back to my lunch break.

Andy B.

.. things dont go the way they should and the people involved just whine and complain instead of adjusting, coming up with a different plan, and moving on

... when team members dont show up for mandatory meetings and when you ask them where they were they say they didnt hear the announcement even though it was running for 4 days in a row...




/end rant/

...someone else knocks over MOEblack (a big container with all of our little itty bitty nuts and bolts and such in it that weighed a thousand pounds) and you, like an idiot, volenteer to clean it all up...then spend two/three days doing it because you suddenly reliezed that you have NO IDEA what the difference between the bolts are other then they're different colors.

...you go to the supermarket to buy canned food products and some kids from some darn robotics team has cleaned the sheleves in order to win a canned food drive contest *snicker*

...your best friend has locked herself in a bathroom and you have to called underneath the adjoining bathroom stall to get to her because she wont open the door and then you relieze that you've crawled in the wrong direction (oops).

...One year you are the only person on your team named Erin and the next year there are five, including yourself! (two girls, three boys). That is confusing as anything when someone is trying to get another Erin and all five answer.

...Jake has his camera and happens to film me doing something. (Jake is this kid on our team who would die if we ever seperated him from his camera.)

(Last one...promise)

...your school tells you that you may not wear your bright Lime Green Socks to school anymore because they do not meet with the uniform regulation. I mean...for crying out loud...they're socks!

... I post in the word association thread, and find that someone beat me to it, and I have to go back and edit my post, and think up an new word to post. :(

...someone posts about being upset about being beaten in the word game and you relieze that they're talking about you. (oops)

WHEN PEOPLE MAKE UP RUMORS THAT ARE TOTALLY FALSE AND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO BASIS OF TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 11111111111111:mad:

You find the freshman that went missing three weeks ago stuck in your sprockets. By the smell.

(Actually, it was Tytus who beat me out the time I was thinking of.)

when people take word association way to seriously

...when those pesky patent laws prevent you from sharing all of your wicked cool ideas with the boards.

...people post whatever's on their mind without thinking and considering what they're about to say.

:(
Jeff, You know me Better than that

...you meet the man of yours dreams, then met his beautiful girlfriend

When you find out that you have to work until 6am Thanksgiving day and you are going to spend that day alone...

You have a very realistic dream that your alarm didn't go off so you get up and wake up everyone in the house and then realize it's only 5 a.m. not 7!

MissInfo, Ouch! That must have been horrible.

Try doing it at 3am though!

...Work makes you have 6 o'clock meetings about nothing important other than teaching idoits how to properly bag for the millionth time when you already know how...

...people ask for double paper bags

...when they wont let you do your job properly b/c 'you aren't doing it right' and knock you out of your area

...i'm sick. :(

...my guitar tuner doesn't work!

...robotics class/meeting break for a week.

... when you meet the man of your dreams by total chance/ coincidence and he's so perfect for you... and it turns out that he likes you too... but then you find out that in a few weeks he's leaving to go to college in arizona, so no matter how desperately you want to, you can't get into a relationship with him, becuase you don't want to ruin any chance of friendship with a long distance relationship, and neither does he. :(

... you find out that there is a very important event on the same weekend as a FIRST regional and you have to decide which one to go to.

...you are half asleep, on your way to work on Sunday morning at 7:30 AM for the full store meeting and some idiot in a Ford Mustang pulls up to a 4 way stop in front of you, and just sits there with no other cars around. She then puts on lipstick and answers her cell phone, while your car is sitting behind this person.



Yes, this really did happen. One of the few times lately I've had to stick my head out the window and scream at a driver :D

.. these forums die and nobody posts for a while

...when I'm stuck writing a paper until 4 am for a class at 9 am.

...when I wake up from my nap after a very realistic dream that got me freaked, and end up banging my head on a shelf in the process of jumping up.

...you get to your hotel in Houston and realize that what you forgot was your mentor and that she has to ride with a total stranger to your hotel

I hate it when I hear advertisments for the fundraising of pop warner cheerleading and football and I KNOW people will give them money
And I also know that nobody giving them money would even consider thinking of giving the robotics team money if the team asked.

Stupid Napa people.

When people type in all caps

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when jimmy cracks corn and no one cares

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I know this thread's all about the hatin' on stuff -- and, really, I apologize -- but Mike's post gets so much <3 from me.

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...your team gets to a competition and you realize they forgot you.

*realizes he gave team an idea* uh oh...

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I do something really dumb at work, like getting my hair tangled in my phone cord (twice now) or yesterday's episode where I didn't notice my skirt was stuck in my chair wheel and I stood up (as I pushed my chair back hard) to greet someone and my skirt went to the floor. Luckily, the skirt is slightly translucent, so I had a slip on. Sigh.

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... im sick

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Someone says it's impossible or that will never happen.

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... you densly realize finals are in one week :ahh:

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... when you have to do your homework (5 page summery of a chapter... outline 3 chapter for chem... study 2 german chapters vocab....) :(

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you wake up one morning and realize you have a chem lab final in 1.5 hours

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......when you have to wake up at 7:00am to walk to chemistry just to check out of your chemistry equipment

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when you find out the night before that you have a test which is a major part of your grade.... :(

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....when people don't read directions

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....people don't follow the rules

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when kansas state beats the best team ever oklahoma university keeping university of texas out of a bowl championship game!!!!!
yes im a little angry.

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when people complain and try to post several times about one thing

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...when your car breaks down repeatedly!

(Anyone want to buy a nice, semi-operational, tri-colored Patriotmobile?)

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... when you slack off till a week before the compition, then have to do 6 weeks work in 6 days.
The slacking off part is lots of fun thou. Winning and going to Huston would have been more fun thou... a lot more fun than seeing your robot move for the first time in the first event.

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Sorry... didnt know the censorship was soo tight on these forums...
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...people use "$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#" to express words that shouldn't even be on these forums to begin with

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... people take off reputation points because I said "thanks, Brandon".

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... when i have to do two worksheets to get out of the class....

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When you spend entirely too much time with your team and all you end up doing is starting pointless drama

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... when you suppose to be out of class by 12 ... (its 12 now) ... have to wait another 5 minutes to get out....

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... when i get back school after all day... and realize that i need to do my laundry!!!! :mad:

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my parents try to control my life and i realize that there is nothing i can do about it

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... I spend $180 on these really nifty battlebot speed controllers for my balancing vehicle project, bring them home, test them, and find out they don't go in reverse

THAT MAKES ME SO MAD :mad:

And what makes me even more mad is that I can't break the little $^@#ers because they are $90 apiece! :mad:

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Ya know what I really REALLY hate?

When Kristy sends me links to CD threads while Im in the middle of typing a fricking long post and then I submit to my sever case of link-o-citis and click on it and have it come up in the same window I was typing in...

:mad:

Cory

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...there is no Coke or Dasani in the fridge.

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... when i realize i have to wait another 3 weeks to get to know the game... :(

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i have two tests in the morning ... neither one of which i am ready for and then my teacher of my first test is nice and gives the class extra time at lunch but even with the extra time i know i will still fail because my solutions were going around in circles ...

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....old people on the road think they have the right to not stop at a yield sign when im coming.

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when you get "backstabed" by your friend...i think we all hate that

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... when i realize that tommorrow is not the saturday for kickoff... :(

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... when somebody misunderstands you and ignores you the whole time...

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...when your golf-cart runs out off batteries
...when you spend 200+ hours working on a DARPA car, and you realize that
a)if we make it into the race, there is a lot more work needing to be done and
b)if we dont make it into the race...thats 200 hours perty much down the hole...

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... when a site is not responding for 10000000000000000000 days.....

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When I lose my dorm keys and can't leave until I find them. :(

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... stupid people don't know, so they make it up.

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... when i feel like chew some gum.. and there is none...

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... when i have run out of contacts and i wont be getting more for another week and a half so now i have to wear my glasses .. which are permanently dirty ( somethign to do with the film on them being scratched) and dont fit me properly because i havent worn them in a while ...

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... someone sends the woman in the office next to mine noisy e-cards. For the past hour Santa and his reindeer have been loudly singing "we wish you a merry Christmas" with various honks, and squeaks and cymbal crashes (I think there's even a duck quacking)... over and over and over... time to sneak in while she's at lunch and disable her speakers again...

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I hate it when there's no school so everyone just sits around and watches TV for 12+ hours every day... (I'm not going to stand this for 2 more weeks...)

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... when its only 10 in the morning and dont know what i can do for all day...