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Unhappiness with chalk
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A distinguished mathematics professor, who requests anonymity, writes:
I have a complaint and no where to send it - so naturally I am sending it to you.
Crayola has made their chalk thinner. It is not much thinner. But it is thinner enough.
It is also shorter. I went back to my office and found an old box with two pieces of chalk. The new pieces are thinner, shorter and don’t write as dark. It is annoying. I was in the middle of a lecture and picked up a new piece of chalk. The quality of my teaching immediately went down. I am not joking. It was all I could do to not break down crying. I tried all the pieces in the new box. They were no good.
Back in my office I checked the boxes. The old size was 3 1/2 long by 3/8 inch thick. The new chalk is 3 by 5/16. And the new box has French on it. The old box said "Crayola Anti-Dust Chalk." The new box says "An du septic Chalk".
I want my old chalk back!
UPDATE: Investigator Robert Blanton writes: "One point I wonder is whether the new package contains more pieces of lesser quality. This seems to me to have been a trend in many products over the last years. You get less disguised as more."
— staff
Improbable Research
2008-01-07
http://improbable.com/2008/01/07/unhappiness-with-chalk/
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