Here at work we now have a manual pencil sharpener. I mean really? :dubious: What the heck is up with that? When I came in on Monday it was bolted to the corner of a portable table in the hallway. It is the old metal kind. I wonder what our clients will think when they tour our facility and see this stupid manual sharpener. I am sure it will be along the lines of “Yeah, I am really going to give these clowns my business, they can’t even afford to dish out 8 dollars for an electric pencil sharpener”
We have been making fun for the last half hour wondering if we have to ask our boss if we are allowed to leave our desks to sharpen a pencil. I am positive my boss will respond with “you should have come to class prepared” and someone said it should have been attached to the wall next to our super dooper expensive copier/printer/scanner that is right across from it.
I think manual pencil sharpeners are superior. The electric ones require electricity to operate–what a waste of resources. It makes sense from an environmental and economic perspective to use a manual one.
Maybe your clients will see the manual one and appreciate the sensibility of it.
Sensible and economical. In my experience electric pencil sharpeners experience a lust for travel after a few months and are never seen or heard from again.
Whilst I agree that manual has a certain charm and often better results than electric, who doesn’t use mechanical pencils these days? Unless you are some sort of artist.
You’re kidding right? Please tell me you’re kidding.
I guess all those science fiction stories about how technology would result in the human species becoming withered and effette…to the point where they can’t turn a crank repeatedly…were profectic after all.
Personally, I think you’re clients will be devasted to realize that in this day and age you’re still using pencils !
I prefer the mechanical sharpener as the electric one just eats half my pencil before I get a decent point. My workplace uses old-fashioned wooden pencils because they’re cheap and easy to replace when they get covered in blood, serum, and/or urine.
(I work in a pathology lab if anyone was wondering.)
Or editor – everybody who works on the ms. uses a different color. Try to find good colored mechanical pencils – there’s no such critter. A lot of us prefer Col-Erase pencils.
Scarlett, who actually prefers pen when she gets to choose her writing implement, but also has a thing for Col-Erase Violet