Fountain Pens Are For Old People?!

[VivienR]

Fountain pens for those who want to enjoy the beauty and the art of writing, without age limit.

[napalm]

This is all from people whom are not really secure / comfortable with their own choices and feel the need to attack other people choices.

[pajaro]

Pens are pretty much old hat. G-Shock watches are pretty dated also. Don't let the philistenes on HGTV catch you using them. They'd have you updating your persona by replacing all that old stuff with the latest cell phone so you could text to all the other barbarians.

[casualmerlinconstant]

I cannot wait until I am an elegant elderly gentlemen chilling at the country club with my cane and brandishing my Pelikan with handwriting so fine it look like it was carved xD

[Snargle]

I agree that fountain pens are for old people! I think anyone under the age of 50 should pack up all their fountain pens and send them to me. I'll be sure to give them a good home.

 

Seriously, one should never let the opinion of "the crowd" keep you from your passions.

[LBpens]

Based on TV ads, flip phones are for old people too.

[zoniguana]

You can't force your classmates to be right...

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

In some places, kids learn to write with fountain pens. There's quite a few fountain pens made for kids like the Lamy ABC and Nexx. In any case, use whatever sort of pen you want to use. Most people where I am think fountain pens are really really cool. I don't think fountain pens are old fashioned. I think they are the future. A modern fountain pen is like comparing a Prius to a crank-start car built early in the century. Technology has changed, and thanks to it, many fountain pens have very advanced feeds now. Of course many people say that they may not be built like they used to be, but people say that about many things, cars included.

 

Dillon

Edited July 17, 2014 by Dillo

[AustinMalone1999]

In high school, that is one of the two reactions I get. ''You think you're better than me because you have an awesome pen?'' and ''Wow that's cool what is that''. Grow a new user from the second, ignore the first. It's easy nowadays for people to make it into their 20's having never seen a fountain pen.

[gweimer1]

I have used ball point pens most of my life, and hated most of them. I've just never liked how they wrote. So, I got back into a fountain pen a few years ago, and am back again. The free gel pens at work just don't cut it.

 

One thing I learned at work years ago was a simple thing - Never sign a million dollar contract with a Bic pen.

[PAKMAN]

I'm old and use a fountain pen so it must be true

I also wear a G-Shock, however it's the titanium version that syncs to the Atomic Clock in Colorado and recharges itself using solar power.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I was old when I first used a fountain pen in 4th grade; back when a silver dime got you a 8 oz Coke or a 10 oz Pepsi if you was in the south.

Edited July 17, 2014 by Bo Bo Olson

[Bo Bo Olson]

Three years later Coke would jump to 10 oz, Pepsi to 12. Coke caught up with in the yer but none caught up with 16 oz Royal Crown.

Fountain pens were not as important as discovering Royal Crown's pint bottle of soda.

Most kids had fountain pens.

There were kids with big fountain pen collections. I contributed every year to some one's collection, because I was not rich enough to have my name engraved on it.

[gautampk]

I don't know if this is just me, but I've never come across this issue... I started using a fountain pen in Year 5 (about 10 years ago now), and so did about half my class . Ballpoint pens were strictly forbidden until senior school (Year 7), and even then they were discouraged, so the only other options were rollerballs and fountain pens. Maybe things have changed dramatically since then, but I'm pretty sure my school still has the "no biro" rule.

[swanjun]

I was around 15-16 when I got my first fountain pen. I never saw anyone else using one except for my friend and then-boyfriend, who each had one, too. But still, be confident in your coolness.

 

Also, I must say, at the risk of sounding patronizing, that your impressive grasp of grammar and punctuation at age 13 gladdens my heart.

[Beechwood]

I hope that fountain pens are for old people because I am old

 

Please send a PM for my address

[pajaro]

I'm old and use a fountain pen so it must be true

I also wear a G-Shock, however it's the titanium version that syncs to the Atomic Clock in Colorado and recharges itself using solar power.

 

Holy Mainspring, Batman! The supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Elite Nerd version. Beware, HGTV is looking for you.

[Ernst Bitterman]

I got similar comments in high school. I left it in 1984, and I still have the pen I got as a graduation gift. Most of those who made the comments I know not what became of them.

[hbdk]

At your age it takes guts to stand out from the crowd - you have my respect!

Keep it up and don't get intimidated.

 

If you can afford it, I would suggest giving away a couple of cheap pens to some of your friends - you are sure to make some converts

[Ragwort Fairy]

My primary school only let people use pencils up until P6 (age 9-10), when we started to use Berol handwriting pens in "writing" subjects, but never for maths or drawing. This makes me think of pens as a "grown up thing" whether it is a fountain pen or not.