On Losing A Pen . . .!

[plumon]

I hadn't lost a pen before! I am super-careful with them, protect them and so on. And then, one day going to the movies, I got flustered (is that the right spelling?) while paying and left/lost the pen. Of course, if someone finds it and develops a love for it, it won't be so bad. But I was desolate when it happened. I considered trying to replace it with one exactly like it, but haven't decided yet. I could just try to forget it . . .

Has this happened to you? What have you done about it, if anything?

[Mahatma Kane Jeeves]

I haven't lost one. But I keep my best pens at home so as not to take the risk.

[legume]

I always make sure to keep my fountain pens in my bag when not in use. If I lose a pen, it will be because it was stolen along with the bag. I also make sure never to lend a pen out. I don't trust others not to have clumsy hands or "forget" to have it on their person the next day to give it back.

[Iscribe]

To quote Shakespeare, "Never a borrower or lender be". This applies to fountain pens as well.

 

[BookCat]

I would let someone borrow a ballpoint!

 

So sorry this happened to you, perhaps you didn't take it out with you and you'll find it somewhere in your home.

[ac12]

REPLACE IT.

Same or better, and keep on going.

w/o a pen you will keep thinking about it

[tomgartin]

Sorry to hear you lost your pen. Best to just replace it with something you know you'll love. It was a mistake that happened in a very unusual set of circumstances. You were flustered. How often does that happen when buying movie tickets? Move on and get a pen that pleases you.

[Brioche]

I've lost pens. I've had pens, shall we say, permanently borrowed (stolen? confused with someone else's pen?).

 

It hurts.

 

On the other hand, I once found a pen on the ground. A fairly nice Sheaffer. What to do? It wasn't near any shop or place that it would be obvious to return it.

 

Picking it up with guilt, I used it for decades.

 

And then it was lost again.

 

Pen karma.

[IcedTea]

I've lost my pilot Fermo with an extra fine nib by Mr. Binder

 

I was sad for a day, then I just got over it. It was a great pen, my first real fountain pen to be honest, but it didn't have any SUPER sentimental value (wasn't like an old family picture or anything).

 

I got back up and continued on with my fountain pen journey

[andreamcantu]

Sorry to hear you lost your pen. I've never lost a fountain pen. I thought I had lost my Lamy 2000 for a while but turns out it had fallen out of my bag and into the floor of the backseat of my car. Anyways when I thought I had lost it for good I was very sad. I was surprised at how sad I was.

[soapytwist]

If I hadn't lost my first pen, I'd never have gone looking for any others - silver linings and all that. I've lost countless pens over the years and it's taught me that, after all, it's just a pen at the end of the day.

[The Blue Knight]

I lost my sonnet a few months ago. It was sad as it's was my favourite pen by far. It took me about a mnoth to get over it especially as I was the most expensive pen I have ever brought and I was hoping to have it for all my time at uni.

 

But now I have got over it and put some Christmas money in my pen funds box to buy myself a new some time in next month. It was sad but things happen.

[discopig]

If I lost one of my least expensive pens, like the Hero 704, Safari or Noodler's flex pens, I wouldn't feel so bad. Maybe a bit annoyed, but I wouldn't be upset.

 

If I lost a pen like my Namiki Falcon I would be pretty upset.

[OiRogers]

I lost a MontBlanc 144 several years ago during a foot pursuit through some nasty brambles....Replaced it with a 146 and some 149's... Them got another 144 and realized I don't really like the 144 that much anymore. So the emotional distress of the loss is deadened. The financial loss made me more choosy of what pens I carry at work.

 

I also lost an Omas Paragon to a broken body... The nib was the smoothest, most expressive nib I have ever written with. It is sitting waiting for the proper replacement body now... Luckily the nib and feed were undamaged, but it has been closing on a decade since I last got to lay ink with it.

[Sasha Royale]

On three occasions, I did as you.

I mourned.

I hoped something good comes from it.

I replaced.

I learned.

 

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On one of the three occasions, a movie theater usher returned the lost pen to me. It was like a gift.

Has anyone ever given you a Parker 51 ? What a great feeling !

[Koyote]

I don't shed tears over things that can be easily replaced.

 

Then again, I have not lost a nice pen (yet!).

[hbdk]

Sorry to hear that.

 

I don't really have any expensive pens, but I do have a couple that have a certain sentimental value - they stay on my desk at home. Lost a couple of Picasso Montmatres - probably forgot them somewhere visiting clients, but at 10£ it is no big deal

[StephY]

I lost an entire pen roll once, somewhere in the streets of New York City. Amongst the lost was a MB 149 and a Dunhill that I'd just been given as a graduation present. That took a long time to mourn and get over, and that was before I fully fell into this hobby.

 

For the last six months I've "lost" my Edison Beaumont pneumatic filler. I finally found it last weekend tucked in a bag that I almost never use, and didn't remember using on any occasion when I had the pen, but there it was in one of the pockets. Lost, then found, is a great feeling.

[Koyote]

I lost an entire pen roll once, somewhere in the streets of New York City. Amongst the lost was a MB 149 and a Dunhill that I'd just been given as a graduation present. That took a long time to mourn and get over, and that was before I fully fell into this hobby.

 

For the last six months I've "lost" my Edison Beaumont pneumatic filler. I finally found it last weekend tucked in a bag that I almost never use, and didn't remember using on any occasion when I had the pen, but there it was in one of the pockets. Lost, then found, is a great feeling.

 

Did it still write, or had it dried up?

Edited January 11, 2014 by Koyote

[pokermind]

I just lost my recently aquired Waterman Hémisphère, which I could have sworn I put in a zippered pouch in my luggage. It wasn't that great of a pen (needed more nib smoothing), but it was beginning to grow on me. I left word at the hotel I was staying at to give me a call should they find it when cleaning the room.