Well, I can't say I've ever had a pick-up line used on me, but I've had plenty of looks and eyes made at me during competitions. Then again, maybe those looks were because they boys thought I was crazy. This little 5 foot 1 inch girl running around with pink and lime green hair, yelling and screaming and dancing to music with tools hanging out of every pocket...it gets some strange looks.
Anyway, I will say that my first boyfriend got me into robotics. He hated it, I loved it. He quit before the end of his first year and I said bye bye to him and stuck around robotics. My second boyfriend was a product of robotics, and when I told him to get lost, he seemed to lose his love of robotics. It was around that time that I had two dating offers from other boys on my team. I turned them both down, and third time being the charm, accepted my third offer. He's still my boyfriend today, over a year later, and we are happy together, and he even mentors for my team while I run it as president.
Guess you could say I just can't get enough of robotics, and the robo boys can't get enough of me! I find it all amusing.
I don't think I permanently damaged any of the boys on my team...but a few of them did require some small tweeks in their programming so I could keep them away from me long enough to get my work done.
It's great to be a FIRST girl!