Your Worst FIRST experience

[Alex Salomonsky]

I have another stupid freshmen experience that caused me much pain. We were showcasing the bot to a bunch of 8th graders having a shadow day at our school (When kids follow a high schooler for the day to look at the school, in case someone didn't know), well one of the freshmen on the team, who had no business there, found out we were showing it to the 8th graders, came to the room (none of us saw him) and said something stupid like "and we have neat joysticks," what the idiot didn't see was that the bot was on and operational, and I was in front of the bot explaining that once we file the front and put bumpers on, it will be finished. Maybe we should have turned the bot off, but no one was near the controller so we didnt bother. Well the idiot said his remark and pushed forward on the joystick, and "bam." I took a robot ram into my shin. Man, that hurt worse then the drop on my foot the year earlier, plus this time i was bleeding. He was lucky that I'm a nice, and patient guy, and the fact that assualt and battery is a criminal charge, otherwise, I'd release a lot of anger on his ugly face.

As you can tell, I take a lot of punishment from people's mistakes, we have a car wash next saturday, hopefully someone doesn't knock me into on-coming traffic.