Need a Pencil Sharpened? $35.00 USD, Please!

[Bailey Guns]

OK. Now I'm convinced people will pay for anything. This guy's made nearly $65,000 in the last couple of years sharpening plain ole number 2 pencils for people. But, hey...he does return the shavings so maybe $35.00 is a good deal.

NY Man Tires of Sharpening Pencils for $35.00 a Pop


BTW...if you need your pencil sharpened I'll do it for $20.00 each, 2 for $35.00, return postage included. Oh, hell. I'll even include a shiny, yellow, new #2 pencil.

[RblDiver]

$35 to sharpen pencils? What does he do, take it to the top of a mountain in Tibet, reach enlightenment with the monks, letting the chi flowing off of him sharpen them?

[Sawin]

I don't get it...So was he sharpening all the pencils to be used by the census or something? Who the F would send him a new pencil and $35 and have him sharpen it for them? Seems to me like something only the govt would do...

[7insert]

Sounds like someone the obama administration would like to hire

[Zundfolge]

Artisanal Pencil Sharpening? ... sounds like it should be a sketch on Portlandia.

[merl]

Well it is 35c for the pencil sharpening and $34.65 for the coke & weed.

[Delfuego]

Brilliant! Wish I thought of it.

“Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.”
― P.T. Barnum

[UrbanWolf]

He sharpens them with......AR-15.

[brutal]

The secret is to know what his primary and secondary angles are or if he strops them convex on leather or paper.

Can he do the hair drop split test when he's done?

[cstone]

BP has a lathe and would do a better job. A skilled pencil smith is difficult to find.