“Can I borrow an eraser, Mrs. Hawke?” one of my eleventh-graders asked me one day.
“Um, why do you need an eraser?” I respond, before walking over to check out his writing apparatus.
Then, once I locate it (which is not easy, since it’s virtually hidden under his hand when he’s in writing position), it’s perfectly clear why he’s in dire need of an eraser! His pencil is so small that he can barely hold it in his hand to write. That eraser was probably used up two inches ago!
Okay, so it’s probably not the smallest pencil every, but it is most certainly the smallest pencil I’ve ever seen a student try to use in class (although my son, Ryan, swears up and down that he’s used one smaller…).
It may not be exactly PC, in today’s Green society, to toss out materials before they’re COMPLETELY USELESS, but come on!
I know my hand would cramp up like crazy if I tried to hold onto that twig of a pencil. (And, no, it’s not arthritis; I’m not that old! :P) And do you really want to have to dig around for erasers??
Time to toss this baby!
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i have had a smaller pencil that that lol i tried to to write with it but it well hurt i dont know how you write eith it xx
the reason how i found thgis site well……..
i dont have the correct uniform on then i have to make a product on somthing i made up so i thought i would invent a pencil that never brakes and never blunts so i was looking on google to find a pic then i saw the smallest pencil so i thought i would have a look to see if it was smaller thatn mine but naaa mines smaller anyway got to go but i need a better idea for this product thingi any ideas?
Kay,
Thanks for visiting. Is your product search for a class project?
my friend has a smaler pencil than that it is about a inch so gus what you lied that is so not cool. so do not say that is the wrould smallest pencil ever cause it is not the wrolds smallest pencil ever so take my edvice do not say it is the wrolds smallest pencial.
snowflake
Well, that’s why I used the question mark.