You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

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#961

-You and your friend wear the following to school on the Monday after the regoinal:
Team shirt
Medal (from comp…<3)
All swag that you own, including bandanas and pins
Imagery compliant gloves that you stitched yourself

and when people call you crazy…
“If it wasn’t crazy, it wouldn’t be robotics!” is your response

-Your science teacher asks you how you did at the regoinal, so you spend 10 minutes of class answering questions about the team/the regoinal/the bot/the big shiny medal on your chest
-You convince your non-robotics friend to feature the team in a powerpoint that your civics class is sending to Algeria

#962

Wow! That is awesome!

#963

…When your first day of Spring break (after coming home with the gold in Chesapeake) is spent getting back all the sleep you lost over the weekend scouting and cheering.

A new one…You know you have gotten your parents addicted to FIRST when they bring home a cake in the shape of a robot!:yikes: -my friend’s parents.

#964

…you avoid walking backwards in the fear you might cross the line behind you.
…no matter how big the ball is: It will be launched.
…as you drive under a bridge, you toss something up there to see if you make 8 points.
…you got a penalty
…its gonna be the red alliance! - or it’s gonna be the blue alliance! - red alliance? - blue alliance? - red? - blue?
…even if you are at the regional, you watch it on SOAP Gameday.
…you don’t lose The Game. Everyone wins so long as they have a good time and learn from their experiences at the Regional.

#965

If you tell somone to get there minipulators off your stuff

if you yell “THATS IMPEADING! 10 POINTS!” at somone who stopped in there car.

If you run aorund chanting “im going to atlanta, im going to atlanta,im going to atlanta, im going to atlanta,im going to atlanta, im going to atlanta,im going to atlanta, im going to atlanta,im going to atlanta, im going to atlanta,im going to atlanta, im going to atlanta,im going to atlanta, im going to atlanta,im going to atlanta, im going to atlanta”

If you bump to pass in your car.

#966

ROFL :smiley:

#967

lol Warning: The driving practices in FIRST Overdrive should not be used on the real road and could result in heavy damage to your vehicle. Please take a few days off after driving an FRC Vehicle during a regional in your area, make sure you the amazing extreme side-effects of driving a robot are worn off before driving on the real road. FIRST is not associated with any damage caused to you or your vehicle after attending a FIRST Overdrive regional.

-you know you’re overdosed on FIRST when you wrote that :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue: :rolleyes: :wink:

#968

…when you have read this thread from beginning to end

#969

You discuss making a bedframe out of 80/20 so that you can slide around your room and never have to get out of bed.

This discussion took place at a robotics meeting at some time during the night in the last week of build season.

#970

You get the FIRST logo tattooed on your arm.

(Well not the logo exactly, but close enough that people involved will know what it is).

#971

…when ALL of your teachers (3 being art teachers) ask about all the jazz of your ‘weekend’ trip.

#972

…when you start muttering"red alliance" unconciously under your breath.
…when you refer to everybody as “that person from team…”
…when you have a 100 degree fever the first day of regional and still go to the next two days because you’ve been looking foward to it all year.
…when you forget that spring break’s in a week and a half because you’ve been at regional all weekend.
…when your non-first friends have to tell you to shut-up because all you can talk about is andy baker and your team’s robot.

#973

–you go home, and constantly push up the nonexistant safety glasses on your face
–you have yelled “THATS IMPEDING!” at someone or something.
–you read chief delphi treads at lunch, and laugh because you get every joke, but your friends read the same page and look confused
–you wore a thunderchickens button for st. patricks day because you didn’t have anyother green.
–you have talked to a complete stranger about rivets vs screws for more then 3hrs
–your robot collides with a wall during hybrid and you laugh because everything ’ was ’ working
–you have tasted locktight and find it is quite good
–you understand the importance of magical white smoke in electrical technology
–you have scars from that arm
–you have ever talked to a bolt for more then 30 seconds
–you start conversation with complete strangers with topics like(look at them from the outside of first); randomizer programming, magentic gyroscopes, cracking 128bit encyptions, g22’s, weight of timing belts, whose bumpers are bigger, big blue/red balls.
–you don’t sleep starting tuesday

#974

When you wait to snag the 973rd reply.

#975

–when you where our team hat everywhere and everyone looks at you weird
–when you run around town in our mascot
–when you avoid turning right
–when you try to throw a ball from your car over an overpass
–when you shout out “DO THE MATH!”
–when you dream about Robots or anything FIRST related

#976

-When you wear your green safety captain button for St. Patrick’s day.

#977

When you see from a list that someone at your school is named Andy Marks, and you interrupt your physics class to point this out to a member of your team.

When you write about FIRST in as many homework assignments as possible. I have written three English essays this year about FIRST.

#978

He’s in my computers class. :rolleyes:

#979

Haha! I went so far as to actually design a loft for my dorm out of 80-20… nice idea with the sliders though.

#980

… when a friend of your cousin asks why you have blue hair and you have an entire conversation about robotics and his parents doing programming for missionaries. while your cousins just sit there and stare (at midnight, of course! LOL)
… you try to make up another excuse for having your hair dyed blue… but everyone already knows it’s because of robotics