How many pencils does it take to lay down vinyl floor planks on a 70-square-foot bathroom floor?
The answer, if I’m doing the job, is
six—and that only got me a third of the way through the project.
Part of the pencil problem stemmed
from the fact that my saws for cutting the planks were in my garage, located at
the opposite end of the house. After assessing and marking each plank that
needed a cut, I had to exit the bathroom, trudge through the bedroom, down the
hall, through the kitchen, past the laundry room, and out into the garage.
Along the way, I sometimes stopped in the kitchen and set down my pencil. Other
times, I surrendered the pencil to the chaos of the garage. Either way, by the
time I got back to the bathroom, my pencil was a ghost—nowhere to be found.
After six such disappearances, I was
forced into a full-blown pencil scavenging hunt, roaming the house and
muttering to myself.
You’d think I might find a way to
keep pencils on my person, but really, where’s the fun in that?
—Mitchell Hegman
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