When you literally just wished a friend:
Have a Happy (Second Law Enforcers-Vikings)/(MORT-Juggernauts)]th birthday! =D
- You had no shame in looking up teams on TBA to try to find working numbers
- You would’ve just looked for 17, but seeing as said friend was on 178, you wanted a personal touch
- While typing this, you get sad because you realize how hard it would be for someone to do this for you with your own team number
When you distinguish between friends with the same name by team number.
When you are have already been to the USA 2 times this year (within 6 weeks) because of your robotics team.
You are already looking at hotels for next year’s Championship.
-“when your buttons weigh more than you do” (as quoted by my friend Pyrite)
-“Hey Pyrite, when you die can i have your robo buttons?” “no, they’re MINE ALL MINE.” (as quoted by Convy and Pyrite)
-when you cheer more for robotics team than for sports teams
-you believe you can put omni wheels on anything
-when you design a new system that doesnt make sense for school
When you actually total up the amount of money you spend taking your significant other out over the course of the year and offer to spend that same amount (rounded up) to put their name on a robot as a sponsor… and consider it a romantic gift. (This is a true story, they contemplated it until they realized their other alternative was to eat my cooking.)
-You wear your team shirt to work, and are entirely shocked when a customer asks where your FIRST team is from. Turns out, he’s an old 503 mentor.
-You know that he was with 503 as soon as he mentioned that he used to work for Magna.
-You spend half a hour building towers…out of oversized nuts and bolts.
-You try to apply aspects of your robot (release mechanisms from this year’s kicker) to your physics projects.
-Building said physics project was harder than building a robot…because you didn’t have the right tools. And couldn’t make it out of metal.
Everytime you hear the word Australia, the phrase “AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! OY OY OY!” comes to mind
You just told a friend “If you need anything just 175 me” …
You’ve returned to Chief Delphi to check up on things after a few years.
Glad to know we made an impression! (If you want to follow our team, join our FB group!!! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=39768528042&v=info#!/group.php?gid=191967304908&ref=ts )
When you put “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!” as you FB status, and 5 min later, someone puts down OI, OI, OI!!!
When you are shocked it took so long for the above to happen…
When you get in trouble in AP Computer science for trying to figure out how to program a swerve drive in java, and not participating in the AP review
when the only reason you take AP computer science is so you can program the robot
When you use the robot’s code to skip ahead to AP computer science. (We have 1 year of “learn java” class before we are normally allowed to enter AP)
…when you do your math homework, and write ideas for robotics next year, and make packing lists for Championships, and jot notes about editing the videos from Champs when you get home…all on the backs of used pages of scouting data from Regionals 
…when you’re the most enthused member of one team: get back from Regionals and get yourself onto another local team as official videographer at Championships
…when you go to meeting for one team, and that evening go to a science fair with the other team, then come home and make plans for the off-season events
…when you STILL can’t bear to discard any of the outdated robotics documents on your computer: robotics stuff makes up most of the 1s and 0s on my comp AND both external hard drives.
when you get excited when you find out you have relatives on other FRC teams (1684 and 67!)
When you have been obsessed with designing stuff for off season projects and every day on of the other programers always says “What do you have for me today” every seventh hour.
Oh, darn! And I thought that being away for a few years would cure the overdose!
-You’re 16, and a mother of 3. Robots, that is. (and you conclude that you also should get flowers, even if your children are gutted and locked in a dark cage this weekend)
When you are really mad at yourself that you explained to your mom everything about Battlecry and how your team did since she is away for the weekend before telling her happy Mother’s Day! Such a bad kid… Now to make a cake.