Why are the erasers on pencils so small? For arguments sake, I'm talking about the old fashioned yellow wooden pencil with the little number on its side (which I can magically make disappear or double). The pencil is about six inches long but the eraser is only about a quarter inch. I'm not saying that I am prone to making mistakes but I think even the average person finds that the erasers on the pencils don't last as long as the pencil itself.
The eraser sometimes tends to smudge the lead when I am erasing causing me to use up more of the eraser to get rid of the smudge marks. Then when I am down to the last millimeter of eraser I often end up tearing the paper because of the metal band wrapped around the pencil end.
I know I could buy a stand-alone eraser but that would require me to have two things in hand when using a pencil sans eraser. Buy a mechanical pencil you say? Well, those little erasers are just as bad but at least you can replace those. Now there's a thought. Why not make those little erasers replaceable? I guess in a perfect world things would all work out nicely. But we don't live in a perfect world. Too bad.
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