Remember the time at school when you forgot your pencils back home? So scared the teacher will yell at you, weren't you?
``Teacher Teacher....4got my pennsilll''...you had to pout your lips for an innocent look exuding apology and pray she'd let you off a little light.
Or begged your bench-mate, often your competitor or enemy of life in school!
It's true that children move on to pens from pencils at flying speed these days. But what about, if the morning rush made you leave behind that homework pencil on the table rather than tuck into your pen-pencil box or pouch?
Here's a super solution that left me zapped. It was when I went to an elementary on some work near home recently.
Am already singing in my head, ``Pencil bekaamma, Penciluuu!'' (Want pencils?)
A pencil vending machine! Wow! It's time cities in India decided to use these large scale! I wasn't sure if this is the in-thing though. I am still not.
``Do you know this is the only such machine I have seen my entire life?'' remarked the official at the school office that evening. She did not know much about it either.
It works similar to the coin-operated washing machine that I used at my earlier apartment laundry room.
Push a 25 cents coin or a quarter of a dollar on to one of the slots and push the flexible piece below the slots in. I haven't tried it myself, but the structure is similar.
No idea what the brand of these pencils is, but I loved it anyway.
Image flash: our petti-kadai stationery stores. Natraj pencils. And the like. Am imagining if in future, we'll have vending machines for erasers, rulers and papers too in schools.
Traversing cities here, I find umpteen vending machines for Coke n Pepsi kind of soft drinks, snacks - mainly fried chips and wafers, machines to sell detergents, coin vending machines (you insert a note and get coins in return) and even machines that vend tampons and sanitary napkins at Women's Restrooms (read toilets).
But pencils? First time. It's out-of-box cerebral cells at whacky work here.
Pictures: Radhika M B
``Teacher Teacher....4got my pennsilll''...you had to pout your lips for an innocent look exuding apology and pray she'd let you off a little light.
Or begged your bench-mate, often your competitor or enemy of life in school!
It's true that children move on to pens from pencils at flying speed these days. But what about, if the morning rush made you leave behind that homework pencil on the table rather than tuck into your pen-pencil box or pouch?
Here's a super solution that left me zapped. It was when I went to an elementary on some work near home recently.
Am already singing in my head, ``Pencil bekaamma, Penciluuu!'' (Want pencils?)
A pencil vending machine! Wow! It's time cities in India decided to use these large scale! I wasn't sure if this is the in-thing though. I am still not.
``Do you know this is the only such machine I have seen my entire life?'' remarked the official at the school office that evening. She did not know much about it either.
It works similar to the coin-operated washing machine that I used at my earlier apartment laundry room.
Push a 25 cents coin or a quarter of a dollar on to one of the slots and push the flexible piece below the slots in. I haven't tried it myself, but the structure is similar.
Image flash: our petti-kadai stationery stores. Natraj pencils. And the like. Am imagining if in future, we'll have vending machines for erasers, rulers and papers too in schools.
Traversing cities here, I find umpteen vending machines for Coke n Pepsi kind of soft drinks, snacks - mainly fried chips and wafers, machines to sell detergents, coin vending machines (you insert a note and get coins in return) and even machines that vend tampons and sanitary napkins at Women's Restrooms (read toilets).
But pencils? First time. It's out-of-box cerebral cells at whacky work here.
Pictures: Radhika M B
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