Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Just a quick one-when you empty any jean pockets, you stillfind tools and small bits off robots.
You also know its bad when you know whose robot they came off of.-I know from personal experience.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Your friends tell you to STOP WEARING DENIM and start dressing like a girl.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

And your friends tell you to stop wearing robotics t-shirts...

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...your study hall is consumed by scribbling possible chassis designs on a sheet of paper with a fellow FIRST member for the upcoming game.

That's happened both today and yesterday....

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

yah study hall:yikes: i prefer doing this in math or english class (they get a little boring reviewing integers for the 100th time)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you're in the machine shop and then the programming captain comes in and starts yelling at you to finish the website and takes over the lathe because the programming isn't going well either... and it's still october.
when you know how many days until kickoff (73)
when you stay late after calgames to disassemble the rack to grab your team number in spiderlegs
when you spend 12 hours at calgames, even though your robot isn't there...
when you're in the shop until 5 or 6 every day after school, starting in august

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When your children accuse you of being worse than the military when it comes to recruiting.

When your children swear you can turn any conversation into a robotics discussion

When your children start apologizing to people the minute they walk in the door because they know you will start bombarding them with robot talk

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Rock on Wendy. :)
..
when you have to clean out your car before the upcoming competition this weekend -
you car has:
- a crate of window motors in the way back
- flags, signs, cases of water in the back seat
- a tool box containing the jack for the trailer and the rough drafts/outlines for a new handbook in the middle seat
- brochures, maps, newspaper articles, and material for an upcoming competition in the front passenger seat

Nothing that has to be cleaned out of the car belongs to me.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Heh. I've got two milkcrates full of programming notebooks in my car, plus (occasionally) a storage box filled with my vex robot. While I justify buying this mini-SUV so the whole family can fit in the car for vacations, I did check to see if it would fit a robot. Never did test that. Yet. (In the old days it was to make sure I could get sheets of plywood in the back. At least I've upgraded, but not as classy as my father, who kept his Chevette for the longest time just to transport his harpsichord around.)

I fear the day when my daughter reallizes shes in robotics only because her parents are both involved. She hasn't got to wendymom's level yet, but I've got two more years.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

....you purchase an SUV instead of a sedan for your family vehicle because FRC robots don't normally fit in the trunk of a car

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Hm. I can fit our '07 bot in my sister's trunk. On its side. With the seats folded down. When she's not hauling 4 euphonium cases in it. (Ford Escort WAGON, YO!).
And-wait. You can FIT a harpsichord in a CHEVETTE?!! How much hacking was involved?

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you believe that the best smells are freshly cut metal, and fresh sawdust

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Hey, that was my old car. Yeah, probably could get a robot in there, but it was getting old and I didn't trust it for long trips. Had to buy a new car before going up to BAE.

Remove the legs and slide it right in, back seat down. I never did it, but my father claimed that was the only reason he kept the Chevette. It wasn't a monster, just a single manual Zuckerman harpsichord kit my father put together. (I think it's this one.)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you have saftey goggles and a screwdriver in your purse, which is covered in robotics buttons, and wonder why everyone thinks you are weird?

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...when you show up to school wearing button-mail armor, AND NO ONE CARES.
Sadly, I actually did that.