July 23, 2008

Grade School Prank

A grade school friend of mine and I used to avoid paying attention in high school by passing notes and drawing comics. I came across this note in our scrap book:

You remember that day in Computron [computer science*] class that you broke lead in my eraser? You said “One day in class you’ll be erasing and you’ll end up with pencil lines all over your paper.”

Well, of all times, that trick decided to work during quiz.

I forgot how great this prank is. :) It continued on through the years going back and forth with constant paranoia and trying never to lose sight of our pencils and checking for sabotage when we did happen to forget.

It’s best to use a mechanical pencil because it’s easiest to break off multiple pieces of lead deep inside the eraser. Simply stab the lead (sticking out the tip of the mechanical pencil) into your victim’s eraser and then break off the lead. Do this multiple times for greater effect. You may want to lightly erase to remove the tell-tale signs of lead-injection.

** We called computer science class “computron” as a geeky slang, I think in reference to the “Talking Computron” kids computer and not the transformer robot toy or any of the other possible definitions.*