Monday, December 17, 2018

England - Pencil Museum in Keswick, The Test

After we paid the entrance fee the girl behind the counter gave us each a pencil as our ticket.  But that wasn't all.  She next gave us a clipboard with a test, to be marked by our ticket as we read through the exhibits.  The prize was a special pencil set if you got a 100.  I was incredulous, but everyone took it quite seriously and no one that I saw made fun of or mocked it, even the kids that were there (as they probably would have in the U.S.).  Andrew dutifully took a clipboard but I declined, preferring to busy my hands with the Bigger Cahoona.

Pictured above is an older couple engaged in marking their sheets, as is Andrew below (he got the prize):


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