I remember doing that when a couple years back...they were expensive, i had those neat mechanical pencils that you shake for lead...and people were always asking me ..."dude why're you shaking your pencil" and i always go "well dude, it's how i get lead out"...they're always stunned after...but yea i gave up using pencils ever since high school started...for last four years of high school i went writing with ball point pens...hooray for papermate Xtend pens
cant live without em now.