You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:

[Tim566]

When the work table looks like a nice place to nap

[FusionFluff279]

When you can actually post in this thread.

When you have a question drivingt you nuts but are to preoccupied to answer it.

When 2am is first break.

When you realize your face doesnt like machine lube on it and turns red and puffs up. and you dont care.

When your mentors just start putting random numbers down on your time sheet.

When sleep is a word you lose contact with.

When you wear the same pants for nearly a week cause you don't feel like looking for clean ones knowing they will get just as dirty.

[i_am_Doug]

When you talk in words other people dont understand.
When you forget you even had parents.
when you know your team better then your family.
When you know eveyones birthday on your team, and forgot your familys to make room.

[josh s]

...you have a caffeine deficiency after build season.

[Koko Ed]

You are so tired that when you finally arrive to competition you cannot remember the correct finger to flip at a longtime rival.

[NickBoyce45]

When you start seeing smoke come out of a drill that isnt smoking and when your safety glasses leave marks on your nose an in your hair

[Zyik]

When the programing and electric teams start arguing about who's fault it is, and you then realize your the only one on the electronic and programing team there, and the entire team is looking at you funny because you haev litterally been arguing with your self.

[CmptrGk]

Originally Posted by Zyik

When the programing and electric teams start arguing about who's fault it is, and you then realize your the only one on the electronic and programing team there, and the entire team is looking at you funny because you haev litterally been arguing with your self.

i think that this is more exhaustion... no wait, the exhasution was caused by being in the shop too long.

[pez1959]

When you order a Quarter twenty at wendys


when you ask the guy at the hardwares store for 200 inch long quarter pounders

[KenWittlief]

when you have a vivid dream that you are at the work site, and nothing is going right, and you must get the robot done by morning

and you wake up and you ARE at the work site, and nothing is going right, and you must get the robot done by morning

then you wake up......

[mill_master1018]

when you drive home so late that you see one car on the road, all the stop lights are flashing, and the radio is actaully plyaing music.

[Logan.Lockhart]

When time no longer matters and people think you've become a tool in the workshop

[atomikitten]

you run from the computer to your shop jumping up and down and screaming, "who used the robot gmail account to make a myspace!" (we don't have one; I realized that I was just delusional)

for the girls: when you no longer care enough to freak out about what to wear tomorrow

[NeedMoreEngines]

You can't remember how most of the cuts on your hands got there.


You are single-handedly keeping the local pizza place in business.

[Daniel Morse]

If you lay down on the hard tile floor in your CAD Lab, grab a bumper that your physics teacher/robotics advisor just finished, and try to get some sleep. (I tried, but couldn't actually sleep).
One of the advisors gives you his key to the school and keys to the vocational rooms because you are there more than him (true, and yes, I gave them back).