Pencils on the ground are for keeps?

[TasteyPies]

No its not ok because its original owner might find it.

I loose things ALL the time and pencils are the worse. I always find them the next day though.

This is an actual quote from earlier today at my computer station:

Me: Sweet a pencil! score its mine now!

Friend: Dude...isn't that the pencil you had yesterday?

Me: .........yeah....so?

[m4tt]

I don't even use pencils, so I'd ignore it.

[Mr. Graves]

I keep 'em. I love using mechanical pencils. I found one in Japanese class a few months ago, and I figured that if I ever dropped a pencil, no one would exactly hand it over to me. So, I just kept it.

[Kirobaito]

I keep all pencils I ever find, on the ground or not. I steal pencils off of people's desks. If they're not alert enough to notice, I figure there's no reason for them to need to use the dang thing.

[Bernie]

If I find it on the ground, I won't take it unless it's a nice mechanical pencil. Wooden pencils irritate me because then you have to sharpen them, and I hate sharpeners.

But I wouldn't take it from someone's desk. There was this one girl in my fifth grade class that had a crap-load of stolen pencils and other stuff in her desk, and most of them belonged to the other kids. People who take stuff from people's desks should be hit in the head with a coconut. It's just not nice.

[Calliope]

I probably wouldn't keep it, because I prefer to write either with black ballpoint pen, or very plain pencil, unless I'm letterwriting, in which case I don't have to read it, so anything goes.

[Shadow Knight]

Keep it, unless I see them drop it.

[Meat Puppet]

3 words:

Finders keepers loser weepers

[Xander]

I'd leave it alone, at least for a while. If the person who owns it is anything like me they will be back looking for it, hehe. I hate losing pens/pencils. However if it's somewhere like in my college room and it stays there for weeks I might take it if it's a good pencil. But if I find the person who's it is then I'd give it back I can buy my own pencils though.

[eternalshiva]

I so keep the pencil. If I saw it fall OUT of something, I would give it back, but it's fair game by itself on the ground unless someone comes frantically looking for it, makes me feel bad, then I would give it back.... only THEN.

[Misfit]

Do you pick up the pencil and keep it, or do you leave it alone?

If I see them in school or somewhere, I usually kick them away... I don't touch them because people are gross and could've been licking on that pencil or something, ew! >=o

[Polaris]

Im don't like to do it, I think that it's not honest. I'm not saying that you are not honest.

Today, Rita, a friend of mine, said "Look there's a pencil there!" and I said "It's not mine!" and it's wasn't her, too, a minute after she figured out that it was from our friend Cortes and I'm keeping it and tomorrow I'll deliever to him!

[frr_vegeta]

3 words:

Finders keepers loser weepers

Need a numberline?

[Ouch!]

Need a numberline?

I have a gut feeling he refused to count on purpose..

Anyways, yes, I'd keep it. I do all the time, I mean, hey, it's only a pencil. I don't generally like mechanical ones, they irritated me because the lead always snaps or gets stuck in the pencil because the piece isn't long enough. Of course, wooden pencils bother me when one half gets sharpened but there's still wood coming up the other side... oh my, I'm rambling.

[BatChao]

This is the same question I asked, but replacing $3 with a "nice pencil." You're the terrible person now, HA!

NOPE! Not only is the question not the same, but good ol' Proot said that if he saw someone drop the pencil, he'd give it back! Oh-ho!

Anyway, onto the question, if I saw someone drop it, then yes, I'd give it back. If not, then it's up for grabs unless you notice that it is a very very nice pencil (some pencils cost a hefty amount) and if so, I'd leave it there... or if it was at a store or something, place it in lost and found.