After looking into my backpack and finding no pencils, I took a fresh new one from my secret stash of unused, unsharpened pencils. But when I thought about it, I asked myself where the 2 pencils I had put in my backpack this morning were. And this isn’t the first time it has happened. So where do all the pencils go?
I’ve noticed this pencil-losing thing happen to me a lot. That’s why I bought a 50-pack of plain old No. 2 pencils at Office Depot at the beginning of the year. I knew it would be silly to get some nice expensive mechanicals, because they disappear too fast. 
Making pencils disappear is quite an easy task. I wager that most of the pencil-losing activity is inbetween break periods, when everyone is packing up their stuff and shoving everything into their packs, and not always checking the ground around them for their belongings.
I often find pencils too, on the ground and such. Finders keepers, losers weepers. They are now my new pencil, and I use it till it gets lost again or it breaks/runs out of lead. But I feel like I’m putting more pencils into school circulation than I’m getting out of it, and that makes me angry. It also makes me angry when, on a good day, I happen to have 2-3 pencils at the ready. And someone asks to borrow a pencil. People are always doing that. 
Chances are about 5:621 that I’ll ever get it back. Oh well.
How should I fix this problem? I’m considering hiding pencils in strategic places around the school so if I’m ever in need I’m no more than 30 feet from a secret stash. We could establish a small pencil collective of honest, trusting people who could keep the stashes stocked, as well as take from them as needed. Anyone wanna join my collective? We could have some cool acrymonic name 
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11:41 pm on 1/5/2005 1. Nella
I’ll only join if the acronym can be, “Pencils Eternal Never-ending Infinite Supply.” You know, I really think that the cirrculation is working just fine. If ever I come to school and fine I have forgotten a pencil, I never have any trouble mooching off people like you. But it’s true; you’re kind is the backbone of the system. If you guys stopped providing, then us consumers would be left to starve. Now you know you’re essential role in this High-School ecosystem.
1:18 pm on 1/6/2005 2. Ollie
LOL
That’s just fucking hilarious 
. I never thought of it like that.
I love you guys, you’re so funny
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7:22 pm on 1/6/2005 3. Jackie
we should get a locker and just periodically stock it with random stuff like pencils and packaged food (the stuff that doesn’t go bad for those people who just get too hungry at break) and other misallaneous (sp) items. any takers?
7:49 pm on 1/6/2005 4. Geoffrey Sneddon
Ha… Automatic pencil regeneration
8:08 pm on 1/7/2005 5. Kenley
laaahhmow! i like it. lol
scientific.
i have a spare locker if u dont mind junk and about 3 other mostly idle users. 2nd floor.
Pm w/ rent $_$ x]
8:50 am on 1/15/2005 6. Sam
Hey Andrew,
If you’re actually thinking of doing this, I’d say the most practical way is to get a variety of lockers around the school (obviously). Then we could create a key with the locker combinations of the lockers. With the key what I would advise, that it would be two pieces of paper. One piece of paper with locker combinations and one piece of paper with locker numbers in random order. Thus, if someone were to lose one the whole system wouldn’t be in jeopardy, someone would just have a list of random combinations or locker numbers. And therefore throw it away.