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

--When you're at Pep Boys for something unrelated to robotics and are sure you see a CIM motor, large size, in its original state.

--When you get a job at a go kart track and start trying to figure out:
  1. Can your driver control the robot on this track (there are 6 tracks)?
  2. Can the overpass be hurdled over?
  3. If not, how can it be, without landing in the channel on the other side of the fence?
  4. How do you control the robot where you can't see it?
  5. Can it beat the karts we've got on the track?
  6. Will the robot spin out (slick track)?
  7. How good would our driver be (bumper cars, tank-drive steering)?
--When you think that they've got it wrong on the track when one of the three main tracks starts with a right turn and ends with a right turn (and it's drive straight into both of them...)

--At said go kart track, there is no bumping on most of the tracks...so you think of it as "hurdler interference" instead of "bump to pass".
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