If by chance you are up working at two am (this leaves out any and all storypeople), gnoshing on a bag of beef jerky (maybe even your second bag), and you find yourself in need of something to dig the hunk of dried beef out from behind your back teeth, and a toothpick nowhere in sight.
Let me recommend a "Staedtler" mechanical pencil with a 'F' lead. Not too soft and not too hard. finely sharpened to just the right point. Do it up reaaaaaaaaaaaal naaaaaaaahhhhce for ya.
Now I just need to find something to dislodge the lead shard in my upper gum.
(scissors, no. pen nub....no. exacto?????hmmmmm.)