Sometimes you just GOTTA laugh!-

[OcalaFlGuy]

Now to preface this, I certainly don't consider myself THAT knowlegable though I HAVE mananged to pick

up quite a bit of info here in the past year and I'd like to think I have been blessed with a decent amount of

common sense.

 

I am looking at a particular FP and PENCIL set on Fleabay. I know it beyond a shadow of a doubt to be a

pencil. Regardless, the seller has it listed as a FP and **BP** (my abbreviations) set.

 

I calmly and cooly messaged him and asked if he didn't mean FP and PENCIL set. To pull the cap off the "BP"

and see if it didn't have an eraser under it. (Certainly, one would think that would be a sure clue right?)<I even

further mentioned that while this pen company DID make BP's at a time and point, I was virtually certain that

they NEVER offered a BP in a 2 piece set with this certain FP.>

 

Well.

 

One might THINK that that was clue enough...

 

The seller messages back that by jove, yes, there IS an eraser under the cap. (Imagine my total unshockednicitiness...)

but that...

 

OK now. Maybe you should sit down for this...

 

There was a circular sleeve just under that ERASER that was just the size for a BALL POINT REFILL to be inserted into.

 

 

:bonk:

 

TOO funny!

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

 

 

[WendyNC]

I'm shaking my head. Be kind, write back and explain how to operate a mechanical pencil. I don't know it's possible to make it to adulthood without knowing that, but we now know that it can be done.

[Kabe]

Just tell him to NOT try to fit a refill there

[johnboz]

This is like the seller a while back who insisted that, if I remember correctly, a mechanical pencil was a fountain pen. He refused to be corrected. Some people...

[OcalaFlGuy]

This is like the seller a while back who insisted that, if I remember correctly, a mechanical pencil was a fountain pen. He refused to be corrected. Some people...

 

In the words of that great philosopher Ron White, "You can't fix stupid."

 

I'd love to have the patience and calmness that doing what Wendy suggested would take but, sorry,

I just don't. I tried to turn the leming from the sea but if he insists, I'll just let 'em swim. (I also didn't

get the impression they were on their way out to find a refill to cram in there either...)

 

I DID get a good chuckle out of it tho.

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL