Meeting FIRST People in odd places

[StephLee]

I wasn't there when this happened, but some of my team members told me that someone from 007 was at our hotdog stand fundraiser outside of Wal-Mart...apparently he was on vacation.

[aztech75]

heres a good 1,

i met the driver from 1685 2 day when we were put in the same room for SAT testing. thats about as random as it gets

[Addy]

I went to my little sister's orchestra concert to find myself seated next to Ian MacKenzie (UFH, and Team 1114, among other things). Turns out his parents are in the same orchestra as my sister. It was especially great to have a FIRST conversation because I go to an engineering school (just finished freshman year), and I'd just gotten home for the summer and was missing my nerdy college life. Talking about FIRST certainly made me feel better!

Adelaide.
(Team 1275 grad, Team 97 mentor)

[Eric Scheuing]

I was walking out of Home Depot once, and I saw a guy with a FIRST shirt on walking to his car as well.

Technically I didn't meet him, but I saw him.

[Greg Marra]

I was at my Senior Outing, and I saw a girl in a TechnoTics shirt. I shouted "Yay TechnoTics!" and she just said "Yea...." and kept walking.

[eatnumber1]

Originally Posted by RoboticsPhyre

Jim Thorpe, PA. Paintballing. Odd eh? My boyfriend on 25 had invited me to go camping, white water rafting, and paintballing with them and I got the ok from my mom. When we got there (all 17 of us), we got about 5 others added onto our team. During the second game, I was paired up with two guys to cover an area.

After that, we (me, my bf, and the two boys) kept pairing up to cover areas. In the second to last match, I got injured so had to sit out and one of the two boys was also injured, so we walked to the side and began talking. For some odd reason, I mentioned FIRST and he said that he was on team 1230, as was the other guy. One is a senior, the other a college frosshie. After the last match, my boyfriend came back and so did the other guy.

We had managed to find the only two other FIRST geeks in the town of Jim Thorpe, PA. 25, 1089, and 1230 were the teams at this meeting.. We all started exchanging CD names and AIM and BAM! a nice friendship and possibly a nice paintball team ensued...

um... yea, that was me, so ditto on that story

[RoboticsPhyre]

Originally Posted by eatnumber1

um... yea, that was me, so ditto on that story

He's one of the two boys.. and such pains they are too.. *hides*

[Michael Corsetto]

I have a pretty good one. I met a team member from team 1351 of Mitty High. Not too special, since were both Bay Area teams, right? Well, not really, since we were on a campus tour of MIT, clear across the country.

That's my random FIRSTee encounter.

Mike C.

[Beth Sweet]

I still like the "Meeting Odd People in FIRST Places" thread...

I actually had a guy in my dorm who wore a number of FIRST shirts. I used to see him often in the cafeteria, but was never able to catch him in time while chasing him. So if there is a guy who lived in Shaw hall last year at MSU and often saw a loud, blonde girl following you, really, it was just to talk about robots, promise!

[SirLancelot]

Mine would have to be when a bunch of 1502 people went out to the premire of The DaVinci Code (in team shirts, after a day of presenting to 8th graders) and came across some people from from 1015--pioneer high school. It was a little strange, because they just came up to us and started talking. Pretty cool, though.
And another--I was judging Robofest at the community college and it turns out one of the fellow volunteers had been on a team in the very early years (of tethers and yellow tee-shirts). Now he's a fully fledged grownup.
~Anna

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by aztech75

heres a good 1,

i met the driver from 1685 2 day when we were put in the same room for SAT testing. thats about as random as it gets

Haha, that reminds me...one of my teammates was in my SAT testing room, in 7th grade when we both took it as part of an advanced placement program thing. This was before our area HAD a team, so two years later I couldn't figure out where I had met him before. Until my mom pointed it out.

That's sort of meeting a FIRSTie...he was on the FLL team, so he was already one, I just wasn't yet.

[Qbranch]

I met one in a don Pablo's..... but then again you meet all kinds of people in a Mexican restaurant

-Q

[Sam Lipscomb]

I was at my Senior Picnic at Holiday Hill in Prospect, CT (farish from Shelton, farther from north CT) when someone came up and said hi to me...I couldn't figure out how I knew him until he said he was from Tolland and I realized I had spent most of the Championships this year hanging out with RAGE. Sorry Trevor!

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by SirLancelot

Mine would have to be when a bunch of 1502 people went out to the premire of The DaVinci Code (in team shirts, after a day of presenting to 8th graders) and came across some people from from 1015--pioneer high school. It was a little strange, because they just came up to us and started talking. Pretty cool, though.
And another--I was judging Robofest at the community college and it turns out one of the fellow volunteers had been on a team in the very early years (of tethers and yellow tee-shirts). Now he's a fully fledged grownup.
~Anna

I sometimes see her ^ at WCC. Haven't seen her since Nats though, probably 'cause there aren't as many students taking classes here in the spring/summer.

[mjbrauck]

I meet a first person from 007 who happend to be sitting next to me at aquire the fire a christan concert.