Thursday, October 23, 2008
Repairing Beej for nearly half of her life
As a science teacher in 1989, I was invited to a trade fair in Mobile where a person could pick up a lot of freebies that might be helpful in the classroom. One of the things that was handed to me was a Liquid Paper correction pen. It was fabulous. There was no excess mess like you have when you use the kind with a brush. When I quit teaching, I still had it and it was still working. I put it in my desk at home and used it from time to time. So tonight, now nearly 20 years later, Pateriko asked me if I had any liquid paper. I pulled out my trusty correction pen, shook it up and handed it to him. As he repaired his inked mistake, I said, "Do you have any idea how OLD this thing is? I can't believe it's still working". I'm not sure if this a testament to what a great product it is or if it's more a testament to how very close to perfect I obviously must be since there's still so much left in there. I think we'll go with the latter.
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I have something kinda like that. I have one of those handheld football games with the little red blips for the players. I traded a Blow-Pop for it in the seventh grade.
It still works with the very same square nine volt battery that it had in it when I got it. That has got to be since 1977 or so at least. I have never changed the battery, but admittedly, I only play the game about once every three years.
Old stuff is cool.
I've still got my track hoodie from high school. Shhhh, I was supposed to turn it in at the end of the '81 season.
And since you're so perfect... can I have that liquid paper pen?!
That's amazing!
And now they have these fancy "Dryline" pens I use at work.
They are so cool!
That's amazing!
And now they have these fancy "Dryline" pens I use at work.
They are so cool!
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