Pretty funny.

But also heart-breaking really, Sharpie stopped selling to small stores. assholes. They fought the fight, made sense in 1970 but the computer revolution was on the way. rents go up: oh boy, another fast food place and of course the internet: walking around checking prices on Amazon, more assholes, both Amazon and the people checking.

I was a little unhappy myself, years later, when as an engineering student, they dropped drafting and you no longer needed all the cool stuff like .05mm mechanical pencils, guides, rulers etc. lose that physical sense of doing things. Heck, that's what school was about how to use tools to do stuff.

Sounds like they were close to their retirement goal, hope they can get out comfortably.