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

[mom-bot]

. . . When you see a large engine being transported by hand rather than fork truck, and when the safety crew walking in front crosses the threshold from one building to the next you yell, “ROBOT!” only to find everyone staring at you. (I had to explain that one.)

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by Emily_2337

... When your Principle of Engineering teacher has to ban Chief Delphi and other FIRST web sites in class.

GASP! who would do such a thing.. blasphemy

[G.Arizpe]

...when on of you FIRST friends makes a joke about the regional you just went to and no on but you and him laughs in class!!

[Peck]

When you spend more time thinking about robotics then about the 10 page English paper due tomorrow that you haven't started.

When you then go on to write said paper on robotics even though it is supposed to be on literary techniques and you still get a passing grade because the teacher doesn't want to have to deal with you next year. Edit: or with the teams programmers hacking their computer again like the last time she failed a robotics student. (programmers + boredom+ way to entertain selves=done).

PS: this wasn't my team!

[billylo]

every time you see a 4-digit number on an article, you think of the scouting statistics of that team.

[adammiller3122]

Originally Posted by Emily_2337

... When you skip out on a family outing to go to a robotic demo for your team

I do that all of the time

[popnbrown]

After a regional, you spam all the social networks you belong to and try to generate people's interest in FIRST.

Originally Posted by popnbrown

After a regional, you spam all the social networks you belong to and try to generate people's interest in FIRST.

When you do this all the time. And your friends de-friend you for it.....only to refriend you later forgetting why they defriended you only to find out a few minutes later.

[Martian86]

You're asking for more RAM for Christmas so that you can program and run the robot from your computer without the BSOD.

[ianawesome]

-When you haven't bathed for 12 days.

[starbound1332]

When your always on Chief Delphi!

[jyaple]

When you ask your mom for a left handed crescent wrench for your birthday.

[KarenH]

Originally Posted by jyaple

When you ask your mom for a left handed crescent wrench for your birthday.

Do they make such a thing?

[Canon reeves]

when you know all the teams going to your regional, when you can't sleep because all you do is think about your robot and designs and competition, when all you think about is strategy for the game and talk to a random stranger about it and go on for 30 minutes talking about FIRST.

[dubiousSwain]

Originally Posted by jyaple

When you ask your mom for a left handed crescent wrench for your birthday.

I actually asked for the new crescent wrench for Christmas. And got it. And named it. Is that weird?

EDIT: This baby: http://www.amazon.com/Crescent-ATR28.../dp/B008NM6VIC