Back to school

We've finished our Seders and Pesach is almost over. School will be resuming shortly, but I actually have somethings to look forward to:

1) at school I will not need to wash dishes, clean, or set tables or any other chores.
2) I won't need to be taking care of the PT for 3 hours straight
3) I will finally get to try out that exploding pencil sharpener my friend gave me before Pesach break.

Yes, it's true. My friend DID give me an exploding pencil sharpener. This is how it came to be.

Today was the last day of school before Pesach break. Everyone had to clean out their lockers,desks, and backpacks. I finished all my "chores" and started helping my friend. She's Lebovitch and doesn't come for English class, so she had a lot of junk. As we were unloading her desk, I found a pink pencil sharpener covered and purple-black goo and had looked like it had seen better days. When I asked her about it, she said

"Oh, that was a little accident. I thought I was sharpening my pencil, but really I was sharpening my pen, so the tip exploded inside the pencil sharpener. It was a purple pen."

"Exploded?"

"Yep, the whole tip blew up and covered the pencil sharpener and I haven't used it since"

"Can I have it, if you don't use it anymore?"

"I don't see why not. You can take it when we're done with my desk."

This was a golden opportunity to get a working pencil sharpener. My current one didn't sharpen and the blade was popping off. All I had to do was clean out the purple-black goop. So we finished up her desk, and in return, she helped me fix the pencil sharpener. There wasn't so many times during the day for me to try it out, so I just have to wait until after break.

That's the story. I just hope that my pencils don't explode when I try to sharpen them. But it has a crayon sharpener and ,believe it or not, it's better at sharpening pencils than sharpening crayons. But at that point, I think I would have accepted a pencil sharpener that had been cut in half, crushed, or whatever rather than my current one. What good is a pencil sharpener that doesn't sharpen?