Way back when I was in daycare and eventually in first grade, I remember myself only using a pencil. We all did when we were so young. It's usually yellow. I do not know why manufacturers always like their pencils to be colored yellow. Maybe it's jolly looking?Anyway, back then, the pencil comes with the regular sharpeners in which you have to turn around your wooden pencil. That was the norm, and it still is today. At least that was the norm when you were so seven or eight. It was a surprise, I can recall, when I met the mechanical pencil. I was confused. Is it really a pencil? If yes, then why is it not made out of wood? What difference does it make, anyway, to have it in that form?
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