You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

[LBK Rules]

Originally posted by seisenberg
-You're no longer embarrased by your FLL teams

Why would anyone be embarrassed by FLL in the first place?

[Scooter]

Joseph, drop me a line on AIM....BBBix. Here are a couple more:

- You wake up sewaty because you had a nightmare of your robot not being shipped on time
- Your parents are so fed up with you spending all of your time on this BBS that when questioned, you seriously consider telling them that it was porn

Bill B.

[Alexander McGee]

-When you lose part of your thumb on the robot, laugh, and then take a nick out of the robot because it's fair
-When you leave school early, speed to GM, and get there 4 hours too early, just to see what needs to be done
-When your varsity jacket has ROBOTICS embroidered on it!
-When homework becomes more and more of an annoiance
-When you wake up at 4:30 excited to go work on the robot, leave at lunch time for school, and leave after school, and leave robotics at 10:30, on a half day of school
-When your had problems because your last girlfriend was on a rival team.
-When you wake up excited about a new idea for another autonomous program
-When your wiling to kill someone for your sponsor

[Ameya]

...when you stay at the work site all night despite a blizzard dumping 12-20 inches (not sure yet) of snow.

OR, if you're like me,

...when, despite your parents requiring you to stay at home because of the snow, you work hard at programming the robot by connecting to the computers using MS NetMeeting, use remote program sharing to actually use the PBASIC editor, and have them send you MPEGs of the results.

[Anarkissed]

*sigh* you wake up in the morning and find bits of aluminum shavings and scrapings of steel blue layout fluid in your bed... actually this morning i woke up to discover a 5m nut stuck to my arm...

and you feel like crying when everything [expletive censored] up!

[Hermione692]

...when you start making bracelets and rings out of colorful zipties, while adding in the pnuemonics tubing and knuts and washers to make it prettier
Hermione

[Vincent Chan]

... you've actually taken the time to read all the posts up to this point.

... you've taken a nap on the floor in the work area.

... you've made a desktop background for your computer out of pics of your bot.

[Anarkissed]

Originally posted by Hermione692
...when you start making bracelets and rings out of colorful zipties, while adding in the pnuemonics tubing and knuts and washers to make it prettier
Hermione

i made bracelets out of ziff ties and the tread from the skyway wheels

[pauluffel]

when you have started a first team

[Wayne C.]

- instead of dieting you drill lightening holes

- the word "Woody" makes you smile but for other reasons

- a keyway means more than 2 ounces

[bigqueue]

The bags under your eyes are packed for Houston!

(I took that from a team member)

[mav]

When you know the history of every robot your team has made but not what you learned in history class 5 minutes ago

[Elyse Holguin]

Originally posted by JosephM

-If they say BattleBots after Robotics Competition, they arn't your friend anymore.
-Murder is the treatment for being a Mole to another team.
-You have two friends: Robotics and Normal
-You see red, white, and blue shapes in your dreams
-Sleep is what you get during English class
-Feb 18th is Armadgedon

(feb. 20 now)

-your team goes insane after seeing the starter pants at walmart with 71 on the side and you decide to make that the new team uniform.
-after your rookie year, you don't make much contact with friends outside of robotics.
-you seriously consider bringing someone from robotics you to your prom.
-you choose being on robotics over a highly selective spot on your school's varsity dance team. (although i was regretting it during football season because of the lack of CDI.)
-you're already packing for the regionals and shopping for warm houston-friendly clothes.

[DaBruteForceGuy]

.......When you take a girl on a date only to wind up browsing the isles with her in PEP-BOYS!!!

[Madison]

Originally posted by DaBruteForceGuy
.......When you take a girl on a date only to wind up browsing the isles with her in PEP-BOYS!!!

*cough*instead of coming to a meeting*cough*