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Re: Your Funniest FIRST Experience

'05 Buckeye Regionals.
After seeing our poor performance during practice matches, our teams 2 lead mentors decided to put me in the position of on field coach. One thing i noticed was the lack of a nice simple way to indicate to the HP that it was safe to head out to the bot.
On the drive home i was thinking about various arm motions that wouldn't be easily confused. I was thinking of gestures airport linemen use to communicate to the pilot when i came up with crossed forearms to indicate don't go, parallel forearms to go.
I did this a few times at the stoplight with this look of great joy on my face that i found something so simple yet so perfect (Hey, i was TIRED!) when i glanced over to the car next to me to see the driver giving me the "$@#$@#$@#$@# your CRAZY" look.

In any case, this simple arm motion worked great, and ended up becoming sorta a team high five.

I also screwed up the YMCA the first time when me and the HP ran out to the YMCA line in front of the field during the field malfunction at Buckey on Sunday. i also led a conga line around the field with our teams flag, but those were more personal funny moments!
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