A very interesting email by “Too Sharp” Tom of the 14th floor pencil sharpening club:
I’d be interested in knowing how long you will use a pencil, that is how short you will let it get, before you replace it with a new pencil.
Remember the kids in school that would use their pencil to the very end? Others would get a new pencil halfway through.
Does the abscence of an eraser on the pencil prompt you to go for a new pencil? Some people never used the eraser on the pencil and used a separate one. Others would wear-down the eraser and then put one of those replacement erasers on the end.
The questions are:
1. How short will you let your pencil get before you replace it?
1a. Has this parameter changed throughout your life?
2. Does the depletion of your eraser cause you to replace the pencil?
2a. Why or Why Not? Has this parameter changed throughout your life?
i am constantly a victim of people stealing my pencils so i never had the opportunity to determine when it’s time for a new pencil. Someone else basically decides that for me.
then again maybe my problems would go away if i was able to join the 14th floor pencil sharpening club. But, no. I was denied membership access. How can I help it if work on the 24th floor? It’s part of who I am. I can’t change that. I am 24er. Why should 14 floorers discriminate against 24 floorers?
I would be able to post all sorts of interesting topics; like my experience using mechnical pencils vs. wood pencils. There’s a whole seminar right there. I could help dispell the untruths about lead in pencils. I could warn members about the synthetic wood pencils that suck. But, no. I was denied membership. The unfortunate fools of the 14th floor pencil sharpening club will never know. They will forever be stuck in their 14th floor pencil sharpening ways.