I was sitting in church yesterday watching Jason play with markers. Mind you, he doesn’t like drawing with them near as much as adjoining them to each other and creating long sticks. And if I join in the fun and we have stick “breaking” wars things can quickly get out of hand. That got me thinking, does anyone remember these:
I remember being in 3rd grade and at the end of class everyday I would take a quick look under the desks and if any pens had been dropped, they were mine! I had a pencil box full and I just kept collecting and collecting. The 4-color pen was always a treasure! In retrospect, I now feel pretty bad and since I can’t return them, this blog entry will have to be the final step in my repentance process.
That also got me to thinking of one of my elementary school nerdy behaviors (yes, one of many). I had one with the blue, green, pink, and black options. I had a sheet in my notebook devoted to tracking how many times I used each color. Oh, it gets better (worse). I remember spinning it between every math problem, randomly selecting a color, and jotting it down. Makes my current soap-rotation obsession more understandable, eh? Well, it was always frustrating because Pink seemed to win most often. I still think it was because of the weight of the pocket clasp . . . I hope they’ve corrected that 20 years later . . .
