What's the dumbest thing you've ever done, related to FIRST?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Crop-Circles

Last year, we were drilling holes in something (don't rememer what) with the drill press when the drillbit stopped drilling. We were pretty pissed since we were almost done.

Our solution? Push harder.

However the stupid little bit just wouldn't drill. We realized we were doing something wrong when the bit started glowing orange.

Our reaction? Push harder.

It wasn'tt until small flames began shooting out of the other side that we decided to get a new bit. We did, of coarse, stop to cool the bit down every now and then with a cup of water. What did we use for a cup? One of the old light covers.

See? there are reasons to keep those around!

lol Water??? I'm sure that just wrecked your bit.. Try some Go-Go juice on the bit next time.. Water is never good on the metal parts!!!

[Shu Song]

I'm afraid to ask what this 'go-go juice' is.

[Yan Wang]

Originally Posted by TierraDelDiablo

Hmmm where to start?

oh yes.

At Canadian Regional last year, I got into a hotel room with two pretty rowdy guys on our team. We stayed up til like 12 playing halo. When it was time to sleep, I put on my jammies, crawl into what was supposed to be a relaxing bed, but turned out to a bed full of ice!!! It was so cold that I girly screamed. (for those of you who don't know what I sound like when I do that, be thankful.) Apparently, those two guys had dumped about two buckets worth of ice into my bed and put the sheets and cover on. I had to sleep on the floor that night.

Ok, so let's see...

Steve, Brian, Dana, Greg and I definitely had some fun in the hotel at last year's Canadian Regional. Steve was going to the army and we decided to have some fun... I talked one of the girls into giving me their room key (took me an hour). We ended up overflowing their toilet with ice. I went into someone else's room accompanied but talked him into letting me stay to look for something I may have lost (process took 30 min) - this resulted in the door being wedged open... Steve, me, etc. rearranged the whole room and reveresed the mattress/spring box - "Why is this so hard?". Shu's ice bed was another fun event. I don't feel like listing more at the moment.

This was dumb because of all the trouble we could've gotten into. This was awesome because it entertained a large group of people.

Including the girls with the ice-toilet... they used it to cool drinks

Oh, what to do this year?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by TierraDelDiablo

I'm afraid to ask what this 'go-go juice' is.

lol It's just a lubricant you use when milling or drilling metal parts so phenomenon as described by Crop Circles don't happen!!

I don't know if Go-Go Juice is the technical name, but that's the name I hear it called more often than not in the shop during robo-season.

[Kaelia]

I stabbed myself in the finger with a Letterman while trying to saw balsa wood. That was pretty cool

[Drawman]

Well once, I went to a team carwash to raise money...for the wrong team. I was a freshman too so I didn't know I was at the wrong place until I started cleaning cars and they said something about "PantherTech" and I was like "Well...we are the Technokats right?" and they all laughed and I then almost peed my pants >_<

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Drawman

Well once, I went to a team carwash to raise money...for the wrong team. I was a freshman too so I didn't know I was at the wrong place until I started cleaning cars and they said something about "PantherTech" and I was like "Well...we are the Technokats right?" and they all laughed and I then almost peed my pants >_<

Wow!!! That is the funniest post I have ever read here.

[MissInformation]

Where some people will say the dumbest thing I've ever done is push Dave to murderous mutterings, I disagree. The dumbest thing I've done is almost leaving one of our students behind at Annapolis, and it was completely my fault. And he's one of our best students, too! I wasn't supposed to be the chaperone, but the parent who was had a death in his family and had to leave on Friday. I was the only adult with the security clearance to be the official chaperone on the bus ride home, so what else could I do? Well, after the closing ceremony, I gathered all of the kids in one area while one of the adults went to find the bus. She was supposed to call another parent with the information but never did (turns out she called that parent's home phone). One student, Kyle, asked if he could run back to our pit area to look for his coat, so I said yes, and told him to meet us out front. We herd everyone else outside, and try to keep them from spreading out and mixing into the crowd... a parent called the bus driver for location and we all head over there... On the bus, we take role... When Kyle's name comes up, I say, "He went with his father." (which he could have, but I don't know why he didn't). The bus is slowly inching foward when Kyle comes running up to the bus... whew! Lucky break for a horrible chaperone!

Heidi

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[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by MissInformation

The dumbest thing I've done is almost leaving one of our students behind at Annapolis, and it was completely my fault. And he's one of our best students, too!

*OUCH* I didn't almost, I did leave her behind.

Last year at Phoenix a best student told me she was running back in the motel and would be right back. I forgot, we all climbed into the cars and went to competition without her. She was pissed and upset. I didn't blame her at all. I felt terrible. She walked to the competition - 4 miles. No one had realized she was gone. Thank goodness she was a senior, self-confident girl rather than a freshman. Her dad was with us. I apologized and it took her awhile to be ok with me. I failed miserably that time. I'd be upset if people left me behind.

[crazyone]

I'm almost afriad to post this. All I will say is that if you were in our hotel in Philly about two years back. You probably heard about a kid that tied himself up. That was me.