You Know You've Been on FIRST too Long When...

[Conor Ryan]

You Know You've Been on FIRST too Long When...

You have dreams about drive trains
Talk about the competition in your sleep

[Koko Ed]

When you go to social gahterings and ramble on endlessly about FIRST to people who could care less about FIRST and don't notice thier eyes glazing over.

[sanddrag]

You're on these boards on Christmas.

[Ben Lauer]

You search and find another thread almost exactly like this one....

Thread One

*hint hint, search, then post*

[Mike Ciance]

• you open your closet to pick out a shirt and see FIRST, Duel on the Delaware, FIRST Robotics Championship 2004: Atlanta Georgia, FIRST, Final Bin Bash, Ramp Riot, FIRST Robotics 2003: Stack Attack: Housten Texas, Brunswick Eruption, FIRST...
• you hear a number and think of the corresponding FIRST team
• you sit watching a movie about futuristic robots and pick out all the reasons why robots would never turn out that way
• you consider Curry Donuts a landmark
• you start a project to make a game based on the competition
• you try to promote your game with corny posts (see above), even though it's right in your signature anyway

there should be a "you know..." sub-forum

[Dorienne]

*you have a best friend on a different team *see post before me*
*you get mad that some friends won't join robotics (true story..)
*you make dumb puns about FIRST robotics...the name, anyway.
*you find random FIRST memoribilia when you're gutting out your room, and can actually put a story or two to the object. (cleaned my room yesterday, true story.)

[Gamer930]

- You are leaving for the Airport to head to Germany in 2 hours and you are on Chief Delphi
- You are worried that you will miss a lot of cool information on Chief Delphi when you are in Germany for 8 days
- You spend your christmas vacation learning how the C Programming language
- You lay in bed at night for hours thinking of wiring diagrams and animation ideas

[Graham Donaldson]

- You come up with words to a FIRST version of "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" while working on the robot during the offseason.

[ICE MAN]

-when you plan everything around FIRST.
Dates, birthday parties, graduation, etc..
-when you call your mentor your mother or father. Note: True Story.
-when you spend more time at your school than you do at home.
-when your mother hounds you if you finished the robot, then starts rambling about how you should already be done.