Seventy Sharpener Collection

>be me >4th grade >bring 3 sharpeners to school >friend tells me thats a lot of sharpeners >bring 3 more sharpeners the next day >friend gives me his sharpener to grow my collection >start collecting more and more sharpeners >go to stationary every week to by more sharpeners >collect about 70 sharpeners by the end of the month >start bringing a tiny bag to carry thoes sharpner >english teacher asks for a sharpner >offer her the bag thinking she'd be impressed >sees all my sharpeners and writes a note to my parents >only allowed to bring 1 sharpner >idea.jpg >make a huge sharpener out of cardboard >dad helps me to color it with red and silver spray paint >display it on my table during the english period >get sent to the office >fun days

A fourth-grade child becomes obsessed with collecting pencil sharpeners, amassing about 70 of them and carrying them in a tiny bag. After the teacher restricts the child to bringing only one sharpener, the child makes a huge cardboard sharpener and gets sent to the office. The joke is the absurd escalation of a harmless school collection into increasingly ridiculous behavior, often shared as a nostalgic or self-deprecating reaction to an obsessive childhood hobby.

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