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

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When people ask why I keep a multimeter in my brief case, my stock answer is "because I don't need it often enough to justify keeping it in my pocket".
That is a beautiful response! My standard response is "you don't?!"
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Every day, I have a flashlight (3@AAA), magnifying glass, swiss army knife (with corkscrew and saw blade), Slip'n'snip scissors, 10' tape measure, reversible phillips/flat head screw driver, lint free cloth in a pill bottle (for glasses, magnifier, or optical disks), and a comb in my left pocket; they're all on my morning checklist along with wallet, keys, and cell phone. I have to dump my pockets before I fly, go to court, or enter a psych ward.
You sir need one of these Swiss Tech Utili-keys. I have made it past security check points well over a dozen times with mine(I do have a fat key chain to help hid it to be fair) and it is so cheap at $10 that even if they DO find it I can just buy a new one without caring. You can use it as your knife/saw, scissors, and screwdriver when you can't have the real ones. They are fantastic!

http://www.amazon.com/Swiss-Tech-ST6...ili-key+6-in-1
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You sir need one of these Swiss Tech Utili-keys. I have made it past security check points well over a dozen times with mine(I do have a fat key chain to help hid it to be fair) and it is so cheap at $10 that even if they DO find it I can just buy a new one without caring. You can use it as your knife/saw, scissors, and screwdriver when you can't have the real ones. They are fantastic!

http://www.amazon.com/Swiss-Tech-ST6...ili-key+6-in-1

Looks like an easy way to lose a finger to me; I keep my tools in the left pocket and keys (two sets; one for the car, trailer,and bicycle locks on the car fob, and the other for the house, office, church, team workshop, and P.O. Boxes on a garage door opener fob) in the right pocket.
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Looks like an easy way to lose a finger to me; I keep my tools in the left pocket and keys (two sets; one for the car, trailer,and bicycle locks on the car fob, and the other for the house, office, church, team workshop, and P.O. Boxes on a garage door opener fob) in the right pocket.
The key folds open to expose the blade and it isn't super sharp, if your key is open and exposing the blade it is most definitely no longer on your key chain. It's just like having a key chain pocket knife.
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Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

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

When you are reading about the Apollo-Soyuz Program and keep reading "Coopertition" instead of cooperation.
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Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when the vast majority of your phone and PC's search history consists of Chief Delphi, The Blue Alliance, and various teams' websites.
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When you visit a craft fair and instead of buying anything you spend all your time examining each exhibitor's 10x10 booth space and looking for ideas for your pit!
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Don't use so many ideas from the craft fair that you forget to leave room to work on the robot, or to get it in and out of the pit!
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You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

-You make up seasons worth of hours before pre-season even starts
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Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

you get more excited for kickoff then christmas.

This thread is almost 10 years old, $@#$@#$@#$@#.
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You haven't seen a certain friend for years, but you're hyped over kickoff and think that everything else is WAY less awesome.

OMG: Less than 48 hours until kickoff.
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Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

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...When you try to drive the shopping cart in the grocery store like it has a swerve drive. (Yes, I got lots of odd looks)
I do that all the time!

OMG: Less than FOURTY EIGHT hours until kickoff!
I feel like if I repeat this over and over, then I will finally believe it

When you don't believe that there is less than FOURTY EIGHT hours until kickoff, and this is your fourth year!
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I do that all the time!
OMG: Less than FOURTY EIGHT hours until kickoff!
I feel like if I repeat this over and over, then I will finally believe it
36 hours now.

...When you blow off a R2D2 robot that was made for the schools spirit game next week to hype for the kickoff.
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