No. 2

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Now you too can browse through images of hundreds of pencils you may have used in grade school. It's funny how you'll feel when you recognize a certain design and remember how it felt, the smell and feel of sharpening it, and perhaps even the taste of it (for those of you who struggled with that).

I never ate my pencil erasers or chewed on it, though I certainly saw a lot of kids who did. I was the kid who liked to empty the metal pencil sharpener, sometimes grinding down half of a pencil just to generate more shavings. It was a wonderful excuse to get out of my seat, destroy something, make a mess, and then return to my desk without actually doing anything wrong.

Hmm… grade school: hours of mind-numbing boredom, the seconds slowly whittling away waiting for recess, watching glue dry, picking apart pink erasers, and sharpening pencils. Yuck.

Of course, nowadays, instead of no. 2 pencils, you might get a laptop. Over 5000 MacBook laptops are being given to students in KCK publics schools.