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

[Alaina]

When you can go anywhere and see things that relate to robotics...even a home and garden show...and you love it.

[Ashley Weed]

when you attend a banquet sponsored by your church in honor of your graduation... and everyones paper agenda thing has a number for a later doorprize drawing... and you search for an hour trying to find 84.... or when they draw them, you think of hey, wonder what (team number here) is up to now?

[Krystine T.]

when you carry allen wrenches around in your pockets, and try to convince your non-robotics friends that its normal

[Wetzel]

Originally posted by Marygrace
..when you have eight team shirts from ur team, one from another, and five from raytheon and wear them regularly...lol

16ish from your own team, 7ish from other teams, 5ish volunteershirts...

All FIRST shirts, all the time.

{edit}
HAD 16ish shirts, then freaked out when your mom gave 8ish to goodwill.


Wetzel
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Tri-regional volunteer

[Redhead Jokes]

When your 18yo daughter figures out she'll be working 294 hours at her summer job and you both look at each other with eyes lighting up in delight.

[Amanda Morrison]

...when your list of guests at your birthday party is overwhelmed with FIRSTers, and your outside-of-FIRST friends complain because 'you'll be talking about robots all night'.

Robots all night? yay!

...when you delve into the depths of delphi to revive this post
...when you still post on this post
...when you figure you've spent close to 700 hours on FIRST this year
...when that last statistic makes you smile
...when you have more than three reasons your a FIRSTaholic
...when that stastic makes you smile too.
...when you learn trig so you can make better mill patterns for the wheel
...when other team members tell you that you talk about FIRST too much
...when you plan on posting in this fourm again
...when "you" happens to be me.

[shyra1353]

Originally posted by mgreenley
...when other team members tell you that you talk about FIRST too much

i so do that. everyone tells me that i talk about robots and other teams way too much.

Originally posted by shyra771
i so do that. everyone tells me that i talk about robots and other teams way too much.

...when you quote someone who's quoting you about being addicted to FIRST just to re-prove your point
...when you check CD enough to see your post with only 1 more reply and feel the need to re-reply
...when you edit your own quote to answer a quote of one of your posts that was proving the point of being addicted to FIRST that you are now quoting (this is getting too confusing, i'm logging off now , or not.)

[computhief263]

.....when u begin to figure out ur teams control system for next year even though the season doesnt start for 6 months
...when u bring up welding so much that the freshman of the team is convinced ur going to weld him to a desk
....when the sheer thought of battlebots angers u
...when u seriously consider a LAN party as a fundraiser
.... u time the cycle of a ride at astroworld( the Dungen Drop, yes i know i spelt that wrong)
...when gaining full control of the robotics server makes u pyscoticly happy

[shyra1353]

...when as soon as you start talking your brother leaves the room because he knows what you are going to say has something to do with FIRST/anything robotics related and he doesnt care
...when you get mad at your brother and yell at him for almost an hour for not caring about FIRST and anything else robotic related

[Specialagentjim]

Originally posted by computhief263
.....when u begin to figure out ur teams control system for next year even though the season doesnt start for 6 months

...when u seriously consider a LAN party as a fundraiser

Control system fabrication for next year has already gone under brainstorming, diagrammming, and we're about to order our parts!



...and we ARE having a LAN party fundraiser, 6 days from now! ::laughs manically (sp?)::

[hacksaw692]

When at baccalaureate mass, you represent your robotics team using the regional championship trophy and control board as symbols.

I had to walk down the church aisle carrying that trophy... over my head!! All the while moving at a rather slow pace so that people before me could place their symbols down. We had the biggest display of every other club/team. Most of them brought like a basketball or a t-shirt, generally something small. HaHa we went all out Oh! all this while wearing my white gown and my lovely red tips redyed to contrast nicely...

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by mgreenley
...when you quote someone who's quoting you about being addicted to FIRST just to re-prove your point.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking!

- Katie

[shyra1353]

...when you stop reading in your book at a certain page, and rather than remember the page number that you were on, you remember the team name that corresponds with the number