Happy Pencil Amnesty Day!
Pencil Amnesty Day is the day when your pencil slate is wiped clean. Out go all the grungy pencils, and you are free to start anew.
Did you put your pencil in your pocket and take it home? Have you employed two desks as a vice into which you wedged your pencil in order to pry off the eraser? Have you broken more than one pencil in half? Did you sit on it? Did you step on it? Did you place it in the to-be-sharpened cup every day until it was a tiny stub, requiring a Captain Hook hook-hand grip? Have you erased your eraser down to a non-existent nub?
Today, every child, regardless of any past pencil transgressions, is presented with a small but promising bouquet of new personalized pencils. A pencil do-over day!
A client recently shared one of his company's legendary stories about their founder who was so, uh, shall we say thrifty, that you could only get a new pencil from supply if you had whittled it down to a certain nub-length (something like 2"). Then and only then could you trade it in for a new pencil.
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