Your "chopin" comment had me laughing so friggin' hard because I'd never looked at it that way. It's actually a composer's name (pronounced show-pan) and I love all that old classical stuff. I too only use mechanical pencils, wooden pencils require so much work to sharpen and the smell of the pencil shavings make me sneeze.
Haha it's actually a girl looking down but looking back at it, I laughed so hard :)
I'm not sure...I just, hate the feel of them on my skin it makes my mouth dry and my head get dizzy so when I shove them in the box I can't see them and everything is okay but paper towels are fine ironically enough. I'm sort of the same way with wooden pencils, I either have to have a mechanical pencil or the soft lead kind.
You like choping? Trees down or hacking stuff up in general?