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Originally Posted by Psychoflood
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
-Cheers from the competition accidentally slip into normal conversation
-Every time you see a helicopter you think "Dean Kamen is my hero"
-You swear you hear people cheering "Blue Alliance" in the middle of lunch
-You come home with a suit of armor made out of buttons from random teams.
-Every time you hear a whistle you think about switching to offense
-Every time you hear "FIRST" you proudly show off the finale party wristband... which you still have on your wrist.
-When you watch basketball on T.V. you could swear you saw a green light on the backboard
-When your parents call you up for dinner, you whip out your phone to text your friends to ask when they want to meet at the CNN tower.
-When you see people in a group wearing shirts of a similar color, you wonder what team they are.
-When you hear people go "Awwwwwwwwwww" you look for the toppled robot.
-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.
-Upon your return home you try and convince your entire group of friends to join FIRST
-90% of the words out of your mouth are inside jokes from the trip to Atlanta
-You wait on the bottom step on a flight of stairs wondering why the escalator isn't working.
-You carry a pair of safety glasses on you at all times... in everyday life.
-You come home and write a thread on Chief Delphi about knowing when you've overdoesed on FIRST robotics.
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This is kind of scary.... I do most these things all the time...
I've tried to get all my friends to join FIRST, I always include "Lets all go nuts, ROBOTS, ROBOTS!" when talking with my programming teacher.
Oh yeah and I really really miss the escalators... don't need them here in good ol' flat Indiana.
I still have my side shields in my wallet (just in case there is a Safety Captain around
)
So here's what I have to add:
- Your team cheers for the robot's autonomous programming (they named it RALFF
)
- You often think that people are calling you by your FIRST name (mine's "Q")
- You have nightmares about the target light changing from green, to red, to blue.
- You look online to see when the date for the 2007 kickoff is. (already have it in my phone countdown
)
- You check Google Earth to see if they have the golden poof ball marked yet.
- You can't find MARTA anywhere, but still carry your "Breeze" pass around.
- You think you pretty much know what next year's game is going to be. (I know I do
)
- You type "sundial.first" into your address bar to see if it is counting down to next year's national competition.
- You just opened another tab to check the previous item.
- Not seeing Segways on a regular basis seems odd.
Might have some more later...
-Q