Pencil

Everyone has to have a pet peeve. My pet peeve deals with pencils. I like to keep my pencils in perfect working order, unblemished, all parts intact, eraser pristinely unused. Boy does it annoy me when someone borrows a pencil and returns it with half an eraser missing, a piece broken off or just chewed up. It's even worse when you lend a pencil and the person loses it. Yes, that's what happened to me today. I lent my pencil to someone, the perfect pencil, the one I've been using since seventh grade. Now it's gone. They don't even make those pencils anymore. Mechanical pencils these days are either horrifically ugly or they're so cheapo that they die on you within a month of purchase. I grow very attached to my pencils. I don't want an ugly one, I don't want a "replaceable" one. I want my navy blue Papermate Tri-Grip .05 mm lead mechanical pencil back. For that matter, I want my hunter green one and my cranberry red one back too. But that's not going to happen. What happened to those, you ask. Exactly. I was nice. I lent it to someone. And now they're gone. That was my last one. Did I already mention they don't make those anymore? Well they do, but now they're bright pink, or translucent. What the heck do they think they're doing? They've taken a great pencil and ruined it. I miss my pencil. I want my pencil...Has anyone seen my pencil?