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

[Kyle A]

When it is almost 3:00 in the morning and you can't sleep, so you spend hours reading old posts.
Also when you realize you can remember back to when this thread started almost 6 years ago now, and think about what you wanted to post back then.

[SarahBeth]

I got up for work this morning at 7 and said out loud "I can't believe I'm up this early on a Saturday morning for something that's not Robotics related"

[Zuelu562]

... you're annoyed that you'll probably not be "all there" for kickoff because you have oral surgery scheduled 2 days before

[|DELTA|]

[quote=Maxpower57;801761]You definitely know you've overdosed on first when you wash the aluminum shavings off your hands AFTER you eat dinner.


... and the machining oil, and chain grease, and melted plastic smell.

[klmx30302]

... when you realize you have so many robotics shirts that you could wear a different one every day for a month and still have a few left!

... when you've had a countdown on your laptop to kickoff since the beginning of november and your phones home screen has a countdown to kickoff and ship day on it.

[DarrinMunter]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you use zip ties in wrapping your wife's xmas present.

Disclaimer: She did use up all the ribbon when she did the kid's presents.

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by lil'est lavery

When you're not allowed in certain rooms of your house because that's where the game animation is being made.

When you're first thought in response to the awesomeness of this is IT'S OVER! and your second thought is "that video is so repeatedly entertaining, I really wish I knew who that game announcer was..." and then you watch it again.

[CLandrum3081]

...when you get to theater rehearsal from robotics and wonder why everyone is staring, only to realize halfway through that you had your personally decorated safety glasses still on.
...when you almost cry about missing an FLL tournament for surgery on your foot.
...when you bounce up and down from class to class the day the GDC releases a game hint.
...when you explain to each teacher what that game hint is, and just laugh awkwardly when they look puzzled at your excitement over a bunch of numbers.
...when you imagine lyrics to "Robotics Style", a clever parody of "Gangnam Style", in your head.
...when you hug your robot before it has to be parted out and tell it you'll miss it very much.
...when you KNOW you'll spend all of winter break obsessing over the game hint.

[runneals]

When you buy safety glasses as a Christmas gift for yourself because they're comfortable

[Austin2046]

when you listen to rick astley and seal songs over and over for hours while trying to decipher game hints...

[dellagd]

When youre practicing for Build Season over your christmas break by coming up with ideas and making cad models of robots from past games.

Oh, Im so obsessed...

[jwallace15]

Originally Posted by JosephC

When you just realized 5 hours ago that your elementary school room was room 111.

Mine was 33.

[z_beeblebrox]

When I chose locker 1114 not because it's easy to get to, but because it's LOCKER 1114!!!

[moogboy]

My mother, God bless her, has become the FIRST momma.

It used to be that at family gatherings there was a nice pattern. Everyone would be talking and stuff and then *all turn* "So Bubba, what are you up to these days?" I would answer, giving a nice little Sparknotes version of whatever was happening with me. But alas, NO MORE!

Instead, it's:
Family: "So Bubba, what are you up to these days?"
Me: "Well, I'm on the robotics team-"
My mom: *launches into a detailed explanation of Rebound Rumble*
Me: "Yep, what she said."

One of us OD'd...I'm still not sure which.

[Lydia Yeckley]

...When your Physics teacher comes to YOU
...When you hear a song on the radio during the offseason and make a bet with yourself that you'll hear it a good 20 times at a regional.