You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

[KRoth]

You know you're overdosed with FIRST when...

... You leave the wrap party early to go to your hotel and hypothesize about multi-color cathodes.
... You don't make it to school on Monday after the championship because you're too busy catching up on four days worth of missed sleep
... You know everyone should wear safety goggles at all times and refrain from open toed shoes. The big green Safety Captain button on your shirt you still wear constantly reminds you.
... Your suitcase weighs at least 5 pounds heavier on the way home from all those t-shirts you bought and got for free
... You want to complete a Hooters shirt line up for each robotics season: one bought at every hooters at each the competitions you've been to.
... If you're pit crew: You hate anyone who has the nerve to say "My butt hurts, I've been sitting in the stands all day"
... If you're in the stands: You hate anyone who has the nerve to say "My Legs hurt, I haven't sat down all day"

[SarahBecker]

[quote=KRoth] Your suitcase weighs at least 5 pounds heavier on the way home from all those t-shirts you bought and got for free[quote]

More like your suitcase weighs at least 5 pounds heavier from all those BUTTONS you acquired!

[prettycolors91]

...When you can't shup up about robotics...
...You're already planning stuff for next year...
...you didn't cry because you didn't win, you cried for the team that DID win...
...you lost your voice screaming for the other teams...
...you were jumping up and down because you got to talk to woodie flowers...
...you painted half your head your team color and the other half your favorite teams color (yay 503 frog force the hot team luvs you!!!)...
...your starting to get used to sleeping in the aisle ways of buses...
...you are going thru elevator withdrawrel...
...you decorated your lamp with buttons...
...your team is going to have at least 20 noobs that you recruited...
...you start refering to people from team numbers "that kid from 33" and your friends look confused. then you say "that kid from the killer bees" and they still look confused. then you say "hes a guy from robotics" and a look of dawning recognition comes over their faces and you walk away shaking your head....

[Jaime65]

Originally Posted by prettycolors91

...you start refering to people from team numbers "that kid from 33" and your friends look confused. then you say "that kid from the killer bees" and they still look confused. then you say "hes a guy from robotics" and a look of dawning recognition comes over their faces and you walk away shaking your head....

this happens every day

[sporno]

Originally Posted by Jaime65

this happens every day

yep.....

[StephLee]

When you plan a rip-off of a funny Nextel commercial involving FIRST robots. (Check youtube sometime soon to find it...as soon as we film it, hehe...)

When a valid excuse (in your mind) for having no homework completed is "It's robotics season."

When your teachers accept the above excuse.

When the electronics teacher unlocks the computer lab early every morning so you can play with Inventor drawings of the robot.

When you have to choose which will be the last thing you fit into your backpake - the homework or the robotics notebook - and the robotics notebook wins by a landslide.

When you temporarily forget how to think due to sensory overload after an all-day meeting on kickoff.

When you're already so tired you no longer have control of your mouth and what comes out of it. (Don't ask.)

[Zoheb N]

when you show up to school and work looking sleepy and your teachers and bosses say season start already?

when your robotics work place is more of a home than your real home

[KelliV]

You know you've ODed on FIRST when you wonder why anyone would even try to eat a Chicklet

[eshteyn]

When your bent 90 degrees back in the wrong direction on a tool chest half way under a robot with only 4 inches clearance and your head if at least 10. Thats me putting bumpers on at regionals

[Psychoflood]

Hey everyone, i just want to say that this thread was mentioned in Robots magazine, sent with the KOP. Thanks to everyone who has replied, and to every reply in the future!

[Joe G.]

(True story a friend told me)
When you wake your brother up in your hotel room because you've been doing the cotton eye joe in your sleep, and then your brother does the same thing to you 2 hours later.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by StephLee

When you're already so tired you no longer have control of your mouth and what comes out of it. (Don't ask.)

I've called the inner tubes both tetras and balls at two different points during the season...

[Joe G.]

When you're experiencing most of these things, And Its your rookie year
(okay, I've done FLL and FVC before, but still...)

[Lovely Laine]

[quote=rocketperson44;552437]When you're experiencing most of these things, And Its your rookie year
QUOTE]

Yes. I agree with that. =]

[JYang]

Originally Posted by rocketperson44

When you're experiencing most of these things, And Its your rookie year
(okay, I've done FLL and FVC before, but still...)

I agree with that. This is my first year doing FRC and I already am in love with it.