Let me tell you, it's not too long.
Why does an electric pencil sharperner which costs an average of $32.81 last an average of 2.4 months in my classroom?
I'm this close to putting a hidden camera up to make sure the kids aren't putting glue and paper clips in it.
Okay, the first electric pencil sharperner I had my first year of teaching died because kids started sharpening their crayons and erasers in it. At one point, I even saw a little hardened Elmer's Glue in there. I was a brand new teacher and didn't realize I had to be so explicit as to tell them to not sharpen anything but PENCILS in the PENCIL sharpener. I have not made that mistake since. So please tell me why so many have died since then.
A few weeks ago one of my kids said, "Miss Stolworthy, there's an angry mouse in the pencil sharpener."
Me: "Huh? Why do you think that?"
"Well, because when I stick my pencil in, it's like 'squeak, squeak, squeak RWOFOONGDOIWENOGSNHSGOI'!!!!!!!"
Oh.
Yeah that would be a pretty ticked off mouse.
Because of this angry mouse noise, I knew my awesome, super sleek and very quiet Costco pencil sharpener that I had just purchased a couple months previously, was at the end of it's short life.
Because of this angry mouse noise, I knew my awesome, super sleek and very quiet Costco pencil sharpener that I had just purchased a couple months previously, was at the end of it's short life.
So now I have yet another fatality to add to my pencil sharpener graveyard in the closet above my sink. May you rest in peace.
I hate you sooo much for dying.
Stay tuned for, "The Life of a Stapler"
Mine died within like a month. And I didn't even let my kids sharpen their pencils!!!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pain, right?! I'm about to go old school here and just start sharpening them with the edge of scissors.
ReplyDeleteI bought SIX staplers at the beginning of last semester, thinking "Oh look at me, I'm such a nice teacher providing all these staplers for the students to use." Guess how many still worked by winter break? 0. And I teach HS!
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