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I was, without warning, brought three certificates to sign this morning at work, and much to my horror I realised I don't have an appropriate fountain pen with me!

 

The Horror!

 

I have over 150 FPs, and I always have a nice vintage flex with some standard dark ink as one of my EDCs, but... but... all I have today are two 0.3 Preppies, in red and green, and a Manuscript Master with... Iroshizuku Fuyu Shogun, probably one of the least appropriate inks for a formal certificate...

 

I am in the process of changing things up to a physical journal, ironically, to better organise a couple of aspects of my life and... it's been pouring with rain for a week so I've been stripping out the contents of my bag to fit in the towels and changes of clothes (I cycle to work)... and... and... excuses excuses...!

 

:yikes: :wacko: :blush:

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Hi, I'm Mat


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Nothing to do but to turn yourself in to the authorities.

Rationalizing pen and ink purchases since 1967.

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At least you had FPs with you. I once ran out of the house without grabbing any and was forced to use a ballpoint all night.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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The penance should fit the crime? I am imagining a week with nothing but a bic...

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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A full day at work writing without a fountain pen, especially if you have a lot of writing to do would be quite arduous I think.

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Life is a path of hard lessons, that with luck are not repeated.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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How about a ban for the user? Do we really want such people as fellow users on FPN? Ceterum censeo MercianScribe esse delendam.

 

:lol:

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Confess that you do not have total control of your writing environment.

Forgive yourself and those who bring you unsigned documents, at inappropriate times.

Ask help form someone on high. (I have an fp-buddy, in the office one floor up.)

Buy a Pilot V-pen (Varsity) and leave it in your desk.

Only the Divine, and Mom, never make a mistake. :rolleyes:

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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No better case for an Office Pen can be made than such a testimonial.

 

Don’t let this happen to you!

 

“When the historians of education do equal and exact justice to all who have contributed toward educational progress, they will devote several pages to those revolutionists who invented steel pens and blackboards.” V.T. Thayer, 1928

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The penance should fit the crime? I am imagining a week with nothing but a bic...

and an FPN demotion from "Gold Member" to "Lead Member". :)

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My coworkers know me as a pen fanatic, so I'm always worried they'll catch me some day without any pens on me. I've caught myself penless a couple of time, but thankfully none of them were around to see it lest they report me as an impostor.

 

Oh, and I now have extra pens strategically placed in my uniform pen pockets, in my backpack, and in my desk.

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Isn't the shame punishment enough? In Japan this could be a nice reason to commit hara-kiri. :yikes:But I wouldn't recommend it, doesn't seem fun and afterwards using your nice fountain pens might be difficult.

 

I was caught penless once and luckily survived. More often I run out of ink which is nearly as bad. But at least in my office I always keep a bottle for rescue.:)

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That might take some time.

 

I was in a similar situation recently: I was part of a book signing, and the instrument I’d brought was too delicate for scrawling my name onto slick paper. I had to run home and get a sturdier pen.

Worth it, though...I was the envy of my fellow signers.

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:yikes: Ceterum censeo humanitatem preservandam esse!

 

I feel I have suffered enough. I had FPs, it was just a far lesser transgression of having none filled with appropriate ink! I even have a spare bottle of Pilot Blue in my drawer...

 

From now I must double my daily carry! Not only one italic, one flex, one standard, but plus one of each with something sombre and semi-permanent like Pilot Blue-Black...

 

As for seppuku with a FP, I've stabbed myself several times with my vintage Canadian Waterman's among others, so I can attest it would take a while... maybe the second transgression!

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As for seppuku with a FP, I've stabbed myself several times with my vintage Canadian Waterman's among others, so I can attest it would take a while... maybe the second transgression!

It was an almost weekly event with my faceted fine nip Pilot VP.

 

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I have found myself at work without a fountain pen. I felt as if I were wearing the emperor's new clothes.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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