My Pencil and I
10/12/06 09:45 AM Filed in: Stories
People ask me, "Why do
you buy refill lead and erasers for your mechanical
pencil when it's usually cheaper to just buy new
pencils?" It's really a very simple answer. I love my
mechanical pencil. I am loyal to my mechanical
pencil, something a lot of you can't claim. I'm not
just going to up and leave my pencil in the gutter
one day. I'll always be there for it, whenever it
needs me. Allow me to go into further detail about
the beauty of my pencil.
My Pentel SideFX 0.5 PD255 Mechanical Pencil has been by my side for the entirety of my high school career. The same one. My pencil knows me, and we've become pretty close friends over the past four years. I'm comfortable with my pencil, and it's comfortable with me. It's trusts what I'm going to write with it, it fits my hand nicely. In fact, my hand has gotten used to the general shape of my pencil, and when I use a pencil other than my favorite one my hand almost doesn't know what to do with it.
No, but seriously. I am used to my pencil. And here's what thing that's obvious about pencils. They change about once a week. Seriously, you finally get used to the shape of a pencil, and your hand is comfortable with it, and it breaks or something. You go in to buy a new one. All you want is the exact same pencil again. You find the same brand, and "same pencil", but apparently this the Third-Week-In-August model and, while it claims to be the same pencil, it's quite different. They changed the form to be more ergonomically correct or some such nonsense. In short, you're going to have to get used to another pencil.
Pencils are very important, and it's important you and your pencil get along! You can't just pick up a pencil anywhere and trust it right away! No, you would never do that! The pencil has to earn your trust, and you have to earn it's. This takes a while, and if you're constantly getting new pencils, you never have the chance to get to know one particular pencil. It's like having a different girlfriend every week! You just don't do that. (Smart people don't anyway.)
All this is why I pay $1.60 for three new erasers when I could get 3 brand new, non scratched pencils that even come with extra erasers for just over $3. I love my mechanical pencil. I hope it and I make it through college together as close as we've been through high school.
My Pentel SideFX 0.5 PD255 Mechanical Pencil has been by my side for the entirety of my high school career. The same one. My pencil knows me, and we've become pretty close friends over the past four years. I'm comfortable with my pencil, and it's comfortable with me. It's trusts what I'm going to write with it, it fits my hand nicely. In fact, my hand has gotten used to the general shape of my pencil, and when I use a pencil other than my favorite one my hand almost doesn't know what to do with it.
No, but seriously. I am used to my pencil. And here's what thing that's obvious about pencils. They change about once a week. Seriously, you finally get used to the shape of a pencil, and your hand is comfortable with it, and it breaks or something. You go in to buy a new one. All you want is the exact same pencil again. You find the same brand, and "same pencil", but apparently this the Third-Week-In-August model and, while it claims to be the same pencil, it's quite different. They changed the form to be more ergonomically correct or some such nonsense. In short, you're going to have to get used to another pencil.
Pencils are very important, and it's important you and your pencil get along! You can't just pick up a pencil anywhere and trust it right away! No, you would never do that! The pencil has to earn your trust, and you have to earn it's. This takes a while, and if you're constantly getting new pencils, you never have the chance to get to know one particular pencil. It's like having a different girlfriend every week! You just don't do that. (Smart people don't anyway.)
All this is why I pay $1.60 for three new erasers when I could get 3 brand new, non scratched pencils that even come with extra erasers for just over $3. I love my mechanical pencil. I hope it and I make it through college together as close as we've been through high school.