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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Your firm must be hurting to be worried about pencil profligacy.
But a propos of this, when I was in fifth grade I went to a school where for the outrageous tuition they threw in "free" pencils. You got one at a time. There was a "pencil graveyard" where you could "bury" your old pencil when it got short, and you were issued a reincarnated pencil that was nice and long. As you might imagine a competition ensued to have the shortest pencil possible. People were grinding their fingers in the pencil sharpener so that they could turn in nothing more than an eraser, metal band, and wood/graphite point.
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But were they good pencils?
Probably not, if they had an eraser attached by a metal band. Don't get me going on bad erasers.
