Question

[hummingwolf]

Rummaging around in my desk looking for something else, I found a bunch of solid wooden cylinders, the diameter of an ordinary pencil and very slightly more than five inches long. What are they?

Edit: Okay, I have dowels! Now, why are there dowels in my desk drawer? How have I not noticed them before? Why are they there? Have they been here all along, or did some dowel gnomes sneak into my room distributing dowels? Now that I've found them in my desk, might I find them in other places as well?

Comments

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I can't think of any way these dowels would be useful in my desk, but they could have come from some other furniture, possibly furniture in some other house. They probably were things my parents saved on the theory that they would be useful somehow, someday... which doesn't explain how they ended up in my desk. Maybe I just grabbed them one day before I moved, didn't look at them very carefully and mistook them for pencils.