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I like my pens. Well, certain ones: Pilot v5, uni-ball vision elite, and a few others on occasion. I cringe when I go into the bank and they hand me one of those white things with a stubby little ball point on it. It’s like I suddenly can’t write my name or something. I just stare at the pen and start searching my pants pockets, my coat pockets and looking out the bank window longingly at the car where I know I have a uni-ball in the side door compartment (just in case).

Anymore, I have to take my own pen with me. I can hear the jokes now about pocket protectors… no, any pants pocket is fine and I’ve washed enough of my pants with a pen still in the pocket that it doesn’t matter if one leaks now (at least to me). Becca (my wife) freaks. Probably because she threw in her new sweater with my renegade pen that I forgot to remove.

So as I sit here typing this on my keyboard and looking at my pilot pen like it needs some love, I am wondering if other people feel the same way about pens.

So I’ve put together a checklist to see if you are having a love affair with your pens:

• Do you have a little jar by your desk full of pens that you like and a drawer full of crap pens that you pull out whenever a visitor needs to use a pen?
• Do you often end up washing your pen because it was in your pocket when you did laundry?
• Do you still try to use it after accidently running it through the washer (just hoping it will still work like it used to) ?
• Do you keep spare pens in easily accessible locations that only you know is. side door compartment in the car, briefcase, in your journal ?
• is the name Bic synonymous with crap?
• On your Christmas list is “crowquill nubs” (if you are stretched a little thin on money).
• On your Christmas list is the fancy limited edition gold fountain pen (if you are loaded on cash).
• You do know that if you take a crap pen and scribble with it on the back of a piece of paper you can make a makeshift carbon paper.
• You’ve actually made makeshift carbon paper before.
• You have decided to name your firstborn son “Pilot” and if it’s a girl, make it her middle name.

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