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| The best eraser ever. |
Every once and awhile I come across something that I just plain like. I don’t want any other thing but it. The Pentel clic eraser is one of those things. I am a writer that cannot leave behind the shadow of the previous words or lines that came before. It’s distracting. If I didn’t like them enough to erase them, they better be gone for good. Thus I have grown greatly attached to my clic eraser.
It erases everything. If I am making notes in pencil and I want to rewrite a word or two for clarity’s sake, then I will search the house for a Pentel clic eraser. Sure you can buy the soft white polymer erasers in hand-sized rectangles, but they don’t have the class of the Pentel clic. Your hands get them dirty and they get your fingers dirty, too. The clic eraser is clean, remains clean, fits like a pen in the hand and can be placed anywhere a pen can be placed. I have several that I strategically positioned about the house, my handbag, book bag, desk, work station, etc.
For a time, the Pentel clic erasers were very hard to find, so I hoarded them and would not share. They seem to have returned to the market, and my students are running around with mechanical erasers, clicking them because they find the snap satisfyingly destructive to the quiet of exam taking. Along with being a cheap purchase and refillable, they are an allowable entertainment in class. And they’re new (to my students at least).
But I have had this product for years. I like to draw in pencil, using pictures I have taken on my travels as my models. I create images by adding and subtracting lines until the right one is finally shaping the perfect curve, shadow or impression. I erase the rest, and I expect them to disappear completely. This eraser does that, and I don’t have to rest my hand on the paper. Erasing from a polite distance, that’s me.
And that’s it. I just wanted to tell about liking this particular version of the trusty eraser. You can get one anywhere and make what you want to remove gone completely. Sorry, it only works on pencil; bugs, annoying children, homework, and other non-pencil created items will just have to be dealt with in the usual fashion.