I also jabbed myself in the palm with a pencil at age 13, and can still see the dot. Only in my case it’s closer to 39 years later. It has faded enough that you almost have to know it’s there to see it.
Sharpen it to a very fine point using one of these
The little black dot can take forever to fade if you manage to drop the pencil from your mouth and stab yourself in the thigh. They have more mass and can hold a better point than an ordinary pencil.
£17 for a pencil and sharpener. Glad I didn’t buy my own.
My pencil jab was in my eyeball. As far as I know, there’s no mark.
spotthegerbil So you can sharpen that mechanical pencil to a super sharp point and it doesn’t break the second you start writing? I hate dull pencils but it was a breaking super sharp point that led to my eyeball jab.
I just want to say that I now consider you kind of edgy, and a little dangerous. I will subconsciously make more room for you on the subway (or at Subway).
If you were female, I would find you just a bit more attractive, though I could not bring you home to mother (or my wife).
Last weekend I pinched my finger 3 times with a pair of needle-nosed pliers (I think my hand is too big for said pliers) and have a triangle of little blood blister dots on my index finger.
You do get a tiny bit crumbling when you use it, but not as much as a regular pencil crumbles. Some folks rotate the pencil as they draw to maintain sharpness.
Yeah, my poll showed nearly 50% of respondents still have a visible leftover pencil/pen mark from an earlier jabbing, and another 18% had one that has since faded.
I have a little blue dot just below the cuticle on my left middle finger from sticking it with a sharpened pencil that I was dumb enough to have in my pocket, sharp-side up.