Zac's Pencil

Today I walked into the dining room where Zac was busy with his homework. He was using a gigantic pencil that Scott brought back for him from "Pilla-delphia", which came, of course, with it's own gigantic pencil sharpener.

Me: Zac, why are you using that big pencil to do your homework?

Zac (with a sheepish look): Because I couldn't find any other pencils to do my work with.

Me: Well, I guess it will be pretty hard to lose that...

Bear in mind that we had gotten him a bag full of mechanical pencils for his Christmas stocking. These all rapidly vanished.

I guess my apple doesn't fall far from his mother's tree in this area.