Apparently, I’m Missing Something

It’s just a pencil. A pastel-colored writing utensil designed to be refillable, chic, and cheap. $.50 at back-to-school time will get you a pack of 8. I always have a few in my back pack, but they seem rather hesitant to be found. AKA I have lost/misplaced/never had in the first place these fine scribblers. The thing is, I’m a prepared person. I had a bunch of these pencils, but the idiots in my classes did not have the future thinking I have, and so when in need of a pencil, they got mine. And I never got them back, which is irritating because now I have to track down some more for myself. It’s a small matter, but I’d like to get the dang pencil back to I can lend it again. Currently, Pencil 7029, a bright blue pencil, used only once, and carrying one stick of 0.7 lead, is making it’s way nowhere, laying on some classroom floor or trapped in a disorganized locker, lost, dropped, and forgotten after the 7th period geometry test, doomed to be used by only those who stoop so low as to steal another’s pencil. Such a productive life it could have had, but alas! it filled the 25 minutes needs of a student whose priorities are not lost-pencil-prevention. At least this suffering lead doodler can sympathize with the other lead doodlers. Their colony is officially The Mechanical and Lead Ingesting Pencils of the Floors and Dirty, Denegrating Drop-Off Zones.

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