You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

[LemmingBot]

...You spend hours making plush robots.
...You are saving up money to start a team of your own.
...Your choosing your collage depending on the FRC teams in the aria.
...You call your bot pet names like 'baby' and 'sweety' and don't care who thinks your weird.
...You think every robot is cute.
...Your off season hobby is pacing around your house and waiting for build season to start.
...You will buy anything robot oriented.

[Emily_2337]

... When your Principle of Engineering teacher has to ban Chief Delphi and other FIRST web sites in class.

... When your Driving a vehicle in Halo and you start doing the controls of your robot ( our team uses a 360 controller)

... When you skip out on a family outing to go to a robotic demo for your team


I love robotics =]

[mom-bot]

. . . When you see a large engine being transported by hand rather than fork truck, and when the safety crew walking in front crosses the threshold from one building to the next you yell, “ROBOT!” only to find everyone staring at you. (I had to explain that one.)

[Alyse3556]

when you're supposed to be doing research for the robot, but you end up lost in a Delphi thread like this >.< haha

[KarenH]

...you see a bunch of the field crew spending several minutes picking up "robot droppings" from one spot on the field...and you realize that you know just what kind of parts they are picking up, because a robot's turret broke.



In case you can't figure this one out: ball bearings.

[GrosseVogel]

.... when your pushing shopping carts for work and when people are in your way you yell "Robot".

[popnbrown]

After a regional, you spam all the social networks you belong to and try to generate people's interest in FIRST.

Originally Posted by popnbrown

After a regional, you spam all the social networks you belong to and try to generate people's interest in FIRST.

When you do this all the time. And your friends de-friend you for it.....only to refriend you later forgetting why they defriended you only to find out a few minutes later.

[Ricky_V_3392]

Originally Posted by Kiwi_queen

~you're looking through your photo albums, and you notice that 99% of the photos from the past three years are robotics things (and almost one whole photo album has been filled in one year..and only 10 pictures are not robotics related)

.........when going through 10-20 rolls of Ektachrome/Fujichrome is a normal occurence, when those slides consist SOLELY of US FIRST regional pics, and when scanned, each 36exp roll fills 250MB __each__.

.........when you petition Southwestern Bell to assign your team's central phone system the number 214/264-3392.

[Peck]

When you spend extended amounts of time (3/4 days) deciding on the fastest way to solve various issues, all robot related.

[Cailin3476]

...when you walk into a non-robotics event and have this strange feeling there is something just wrong with the crowd, only to figure out a few minutes later that you thought there was something wrong because they aren't wearing bright, matching t-shirts.

[MarcD79]

When working for your appliance repair company, you walk into customer's home & in conversation ask if they have teenagers in FIRST. And if they don't, how you can convince them that they can get better scholarships this way.

[Peck]

Originally Posted by Cailin3476

...when you walk into a non-robotics event and have this strange feeling there is something just wrong with the crowd, only to figure out a few minutes later that you thought there was something wrong because they aren't wearing bright, matching t-shirts.

well, not to mention that people aren't cheering for everybody, you aren't hearing people cheer on inanimite object, there are "sane" people there, the fact u here boos...

alot of things are wrong with non-robotics events.

(and on topic: when you bring up things like this)

[AaronLeondar]

You absolutely despise the word "Treads"...

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by Emily_2337

... When your Principle of Engineering teacher has to ban Chief Delphi and other FIRST web sites in class.

GASP! who would do such a thing.. blasphemy