Accidentally caught my wife in the Christmas mood

[KendallJ]

get this. My wife was actually bidding on a pen on eBay for me. She found FPNet, checked out my "Vintage on your List" post and found a marine green Balance on the Bay. Then she posted to PT asking for advice and was warned against buying over the internet if she didn't know what she was doing. She posted as a man, asking for a pen for his girlfriend.

 

Anyway, our eBay account goes back to my email and I just got the email letting me know "my" bid didn't win.

 

PT'er said I had good taste in pens...

 

awww...

 

now how is she going to surprise me.

[Guest Denis Richard]

I remember that thread on PT. So, you are the girlfriend !

[Keith with a capital K]

Kendall the girlfriend huh...

 

How does one live this down at the pub when one meets with the boys?

 

[Leslie J.]

So, did you tell her you know all about the proposed transaction, or did you keep it to yourself? My husband is far more direct. There is no surprise whatsoever in what pen(s) I am getting for Christmas. He consults online dealers, the FPH catalogue, and he's actually really getting into enjoying pens in general. Maybe not FP's for his job, but he is starting to develop his own tastes too. He fell in love with a Pilot Murex at the Toronto Pen show.

[KendallJ]

So, did you tell her you know all about the proposed transaction, or did you keep it to yourself? My husband is far more direct. There is no surprise whatsoever in what pen(s) I am getting for Christmas. He consults online dealers, the FPH catalogue, and he's actually really getting into enjoying pens in general. Maybe not FP's for his job, but he is starting to develop his own tastes too. He fell in love with a Pilot Murex at the Toronto Pen show.

No, she was right there when the email came in. It's ok though because I got the sense that she was a bit relieved. She was getting nervous trying to buy me some vintage, and wasn't sure if she was going to do a good job.

 

She had checked out my "Pens you Lust for" thread too, but those are very expensive pens on that list (which is why I only lust for them). Had they been more reasonable she might have gone with one of them to be safe.

 

That's all right. I appreciate very much the fact that she was trying.

 

I pointed her at some ephemera on Binder's site so I might see something penrelated after all.