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

[mtaman02]

Originally Posted by Brm789

However...you have tried to date someone else from another FIRST team atleast once!

Darn I got snagged guess I'm gonna have to find potential g/f's elsewhere lol


.....When even as an Alumni member of a team you still get the battery changing job during the regional competitions. ( during my 4 years of battery changing I only had two mis-haps. One in 2001 At Bash at the Beach where I inserted the battery and it somehow pulled the wire going to the speed controller causing only one side to drive and in 2002 @ NYC when I forgot to secure the battery connector and the opposing robot accidentally snagged that same wire and dis-connected the battery )


.....When not only does the 99% things here does not seem strange to you but you can relate to at least 1/2 of the postings here!

.....When you notice 9 more postings to get to 1000 and you start placing bets if the 1000 post will be accomplished thursday night or friday night

[andy]

When people compare your team to American Chopper:

I am Seinor
Kevin is Juinor
James is Vinny
William is the brother....

And people think its funnier to watch us yelling at each other then the actual TV show.

[crazyone]

[quote=DanLevin247

.....When given the name of a team or a team's number, you can tell them the name or number of that team ( ex. "247" would warrant "'da bears" as an answer and "da bears" would warrant "247" as an answer.[/QUOTE]


Don't joke about that, my adviser (Mr. Harding) can do that with just about any team. A skill, few on my team(222) have mastered.
.... when your idea of fun is creating a scoresheet and running scenarios just to see the score for that years challenge

......when your idea of a wieght loss plan is drilling holes

......when can list the wieght of each item on your robot from memory

[Joe J.]

When you walk into the gym storage closet of your old elementary school and the first thing you see is a 30 inch yellow ball (the same brand as the ones shipped in the kit of parts) and you know you have been at robotics too much in the past few months.

When you walking past the buses at your school and see bus number 47 and buss number 71 and you instanly think of Chief Delphi and Team Hammond

[quote=crazyone]

Originally Posted by DanLevin247

.....When given the name of a team or a team's number, you can tell them the name or number of that team ( ex. "247" would warrant "'da bears" as an answer and "da bears" would warrant "247" as an answer.[/QUOTE

Don't joke about that, my adviser (Mr. Harding) can do that with just about any team. A skill, few on my team(222) have mastered.
.... when your idea of fun is creating a scoresheet and running scenarios just to see the score for that years challenge

......when your idea of a wieght loss plan is drilling holes

......when can list the wieght of each item on your robot from memory

You can name a team by it's colors/mascots. (example: Someone goes "You know...the orange team with the tiger.." and your response is "Tigertrons." Or..."The lime green team..." and you go "Oh yeah..MOE 365")

[shyra1353]

.. when youre in india and you are wondering what is going on in the world of FIRST because you havent had access to the internet for a while

.. when HP no longer stands for hewlett packard or harry potter .. but only for human player

.. when you meet a 3-year old cousin of yours for the first time and think "when he is in high school ... hell definitely join a FIRST team" and then you realize that because he lives in india there are no FIRST teams so you start to think about starting some ....

[crazyone]

...on your free time your building mock models of previous years robots.

....you look at the clock and see a team number and not the time.

[mtaman02]

....when you look at a serial number and see 2 team numbers and think that would be a great alliance (e.g 922303)


....when you go to type an option ( 1st , 2nd or 3rd ) you somehow always capatilze the word FIRST, Second, Third rather the First, Second, Third.

[Jonathan M.]

...when you see some one wearing a pink shirt and automaticly you THINK PINK! Lol.

[mtaman02]

...when you decide to paint your hair and dress in pink so you blend in with the florida team.

...when you hit the refresh button on FIRST site to see if any regional updates have been posted (same goes for CD)

...when you go to the regionals wearing all the corresponding shirts concerning the teams and volunteering you'll be representing (as silly / stupid as it may be i shall do this got 4 of em to wear already)

...when you get a shaved hair cut with the FIRST logo faded into the cut

...when your phone gets the faceplate with the FIRST logo on it....

I think in april 2002 I saw maybe 1 - 2 people with the FIRST logo'd faceplates for Nokia phones


...when after reading the local newspaper(s) you log onto CD to read more interesting things that seem more logical and have more common sense.

...when wondering what kind of motor pushes the newspaper through the newspaper making machine.

...when you have read this thread fully more then once in the past hour.

...when your buddy list is divided into groups :family / friends / FIRST / CD and Team # (Insert team numbers here)

...when said buddy list contains more various team members names then your grouped family names

...when you have 2 different AIM accounts one for FIRST / CD and one for personal life yet the FIRST / CD contains more names and you use it more often then the other one

Edit:// To: BRM789 you know all this time I was doing this editing I never once looked up at that. So here it is the 1000'th post. Sheesh a few seconds of happiness for reaching that far lol kinda reminds me of New Years and as soon it changes to 12:01 the fun is over. The next goal for this thread shall be set to 1100, 1250, 1500, 1750. 1900, 2000 I think Erin will make it to those points before I do. hehe

Anyways heres to the 1000th. post. happy 1000th post.

...when celebrating top postings of this thread becomes a monthly event.

...When you realize that Mike has reached to 1000 post on the board and you're upset it wasn't you.

[mtaman02]

Hey Erin Got some good news and some bad news

through the greatness of how vBulletin works

WE can both be the 1000th post.

Look at the attachment. It clearly says you were the 1000th post yet I officially posted 1000th. In any case we're both 1000th. So Happy 1000th. Post.

If you wanna know how that happened just talk to Brandon ;-)

[Steve Horn]

...when you watch archived videos of regionals at dinner

...when you post on chief delphi while at the regional you are attending

...when you collect 47 buttons and other accessories at the competition and immediatly think of chief delphi, team 47

[crazyone]

... when you have memorized the pit layout of every compition you have ever been to.

....When you watch animals to get design ideas for next years robot

[Joe J.]

When you see the Detroit Regional on the news and the first thing you notice is the reporter is in the pits and not wearing safety glasses, then promptly start naming teams that they are showing.