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

[MagiChau]

When lunch break means you are not eating lunch until matches start up again because you are working on the robot.

[GaryVoshol]

When you go to the community theater to see "Putnam County Spelling Bee" and keep thinking about Exploding Bacon, because one of the characters is wearing a white jersey with orange sleeves.

[PayneTrain]

... you can't notice your headache over all of the heart-pounding stress.

[216Robochick288]

.... When it doesn't matter in the least that your team didn't get picked in an alliance, that you get sucked into another team's group to cheer, then get taken next match to cheer for the other side- you simply have too many friends and teams that have adopted you to take sides and cheer for one.

[Garten Haeska]

...When you arrive to your regional after a 5 hour drive only to remember that it was a bag and tag...

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by MagiChau

When lunch break means you are not eating lunch until matches start up again because you are working on the robot.

When you wish your robot had broken down before lunch, so you didn't have to miss matches to fix it


When your headache goes away as soon as the robot returns to the pit

You're not crying because your robot didn't work, but because of how it got fixed.

When you almost say "thank you" to the voltmeter. Actually, I'm not entirely sure that I stopped myself before saying it.

[BIGWILLI2081]

when you spend more time on CD than facebook.

when you start talking to your minibot telling it it's better than the spare minibot.

[Kyoshirin]

When you and a bunch of friends go to the arcade and pool tickets, and have a complete nerdgasm because the total number of tickets is 1188 (or whatever your team number is)

[ATannahill]

When a parent scolds you for not eating luch until two because you were working on the robot.