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

[Karibou]

When "tap that" is no longer an innuendo.

[karebear95]

When you about jump out of your seat every time you hear FIRST, even when it's not in this context of FIRST...

When all you ever think about is new outreach projects you can tackle...

When you crack robotics jokes to your friends who don't participate in FIRST...

When you start rambling off random phrases from your Chairman's Presentation...

[Ogehsim]

Your friends who aren't on FIRST are considered honorary members, because they know almost just as much (strategy, design flaws, rules, outreach projects, the meaning of gracious professionalism, what the team should do in the off season, and where the best places to get Chinese food are) as FIRST members, because you won't stop talking about it to them.

[DinerKid]

When you ask people if they will get you a persuasion tool (mallet, hammer, something hard that you can swing around).

When you see a cartoon Segway for about half a second on the Fanta commercial and stand up and yell "Dean! Dean! Dean!" and your family doesn't treat that as unusual.

~DK

[MagiChau]

When looking at different robots not related to FIRST you imagine making how to make that robot able to accomplish this year's game.

I saw a tiny robot on youtube that could grasp an object and drive around controlled by an accelerometer and buttons on a watch. Thought it needed some rollers.

[r2davis2]

When you got Amir to sign your copy of The New Cool ;P

[Ogehsim]

When you get so into The New Cool that you start freaking out, and go "OMG it's build season, why am I reading?! .... oh, right. Not build season. That's just in the book."

(^and jealous. My copy is an e-book. Couldn't get it signed even I did get the chance to meet him.)

[Cyberphil]

Originally Posted by Ogehsim

When you get so into The New Cool that you start freaking out, and go "OMG it's build season, why am I reading?! .... oh, right. Not build season. That's just in the book."

(^and jealous. My copy is an e-book. Couldn't get it signed even I did get the chance to meet him.)

Haha. Sounds just like me! Luckily I got the hard cover and I am just waiting for the day I meet him!

[Dancin103]

When you reach into your back pack to pull out a pen and you get TJ^2 Team 88 wrist bands. It's totally normal. lol

[Kyoshirin]

When you're almost late to day 2 of a regional because your dream was of day 2, so you thought it was over.

[XXShadowXX]

... Your realized you last updated your facebook or twitter wednesday.

[Banderoonies]

You're a mom that has a multi-tool, safety glasses and WD40 in her purse at all times.
Oh....and you somehow end up on VIMEO singing about FIRST...what WAS I thinking!

[demosthenes2k8]

...your room is full of people watching movies seperately, and then one of them notices that the C++ code in 21 (the bar scene, about 11:20 in) makes absolutely no sense, shouldn't run or even compile, isn't in a function, and is WAY too small to do autonomous (even with barely legible comments!), and the whole room spends a while laughing at it.

EDIT: It COULD be in a function, and page 2 looks like it might be, just with REALLY thin margins. Still, though. "twopi"?

[Zuelu562]

When you can't figure out if day 2 of a 3 day regional was preordained by a dream you had several weeks before.

[gyroscopeRaptor]

The week after learning about FIRST, yo udo a biography article in Writing abotu Dean Kamen.

I then saw him at Northstar and went insane.