Rub me the wrong way and my life slowly crumbles away, yet every student thanks me for fixing their pencil slip-ups. What am I?
An eraser
The idiom 'rub me the wrong way' is taken literally, as an eraser wears down and creates shavings when rubbed against graphite errors.
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