I have a similar, smaller, gray mark on my left bicep, near the shoulder.
In high school, my best friend and I both took architecture classes. We had drafting pencils, and these pointing devices that you used to make a fine point on them. Basically conical sanding surfaces and a rotating top - you stuck the pencil in a hole and moved it around and it sanded the tip to a nice point for fine work. This would leave a lot of carbon powder on the pencil though.
Well, my friend's locker was near mine, and apparently he'd just pointed a pencil and had it in his hand. He forgot it was there, and he walked up to me and gave me a playful punch on the shoulder.
Spearing me with the pencil, right through my shirt.
The shirt took most of the 'soot', but I got enough in the wound to make a faint little tattoo.
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Date: 2007-04-05 09:20 pm (UTC)In high school, my best friend and I both took architecture classes. We had drafting pencils, and these pointing devices that you used to make a fine point on them. Basically conical sanding surfaces and a rotating top - you stuck the pencil in a hole and moved it around and it sanded the tip to a nice point for fine work. This would leave a lot of carbon powder on the pencil though.
Well, my friend's locker was near mine, and apparently he'd just pointed a pencil and had it in his hand. He forgot it was there, and he walked up to me and gave me a playful punch on the shoulder.
Spearing me with the pencil, right through my shirt.
The shirt took most of the 'soot', but I got enough in the wound to make a faint little tattoo.