Do You Find It Embarrassing Using A Childish Looking Pen In A Grown Up Scenario?

[Bigeddie]

The Kitty by Bigeddie100, on Flickr

 

For me it's the kitty or nothing.

Edited June 5, 2014 by Bigeddie

[Auspice]

The Kitty by Bigeddie100, on Flickr

 

For me it's the kitty or nothing.

 

... I'm not a Hello Kitty sort, but damn if I don't want one of those.

(I wonder if they make a Chococat model...)

[PAKMAN]

I don't really own any "childish" looking pens, mainly because I probably would be embarrassed to use them in public.

[Jimmy Joe]

I used to use a red Pelikano Jr. as my grading pen. It's comfortable to hold, it writes well, and it seems to be nigh indestructible. I didn't care that it's a pen for children, and no one else knew. They probably wouldn't care anyway.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

If nothing else, this thread offers an opportunity for one of my favorite sayings.

 

When I was twenty, I used to care what people thought about me.

When I was forty, I no longer cared what people thought about me.

When I was sixty, I realized that people hadn't been thinking about me anyway.

 

Probably my most childish looking pens are a couple of Pilot Petit1s (an older version than the one in the link, but not very different). I haven't used them in a while because there are other pens that I like better, but I was never embarrassed to be seen with them.

[penrivers]

The Pelikan twist has been on my radar for a while as I like to buy odd strange looking pens occasionally. But the one thing that is stopping me is that I probably would look a bit silly using one in lectures. Am I being overly self consciousness and should I just go for it?

 

Any experiences on the subject do you use childish looking pen happily at Uni, work etc

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pelikan-Twist-Fountain-Pen-Apple/dp/B00CZ7A5LU/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1401981710&sr=8-9&keywords=pelikan+twist

Not at all, it looks as a serious beautyful orange and green Pelikan, if it doesnt leak, skip, or blurp ink in paper go ahead. It reminds me of Lech Walesa in Poland signing the finishing of the strike of Solidarnosk against the goverment in Dansk with a giant toy pen of maybe 50 or 60 cm in long, And with that smile.

Edited June 6, 2014 by penrivers

[pen2paper]

wore a Snoopy watch for years... if anyone wasn't with the program, (childlike wonder of the world), to put an adult at ease, I mentioned I worked with children.

[Fabius]

I guess I'm an old fuddy duddy. I would not use it at school in the classroom nor would I want to be seen with it by my fellow faculty members. I bring to school classic good looking pens and get positive comments on them.

[algodonzo]

I'd rather bring an inexpensive, reliable pen to my lectures. I believe the Twist is not a huge investment, and besides you get style points just for not using a ballpoint so I say go for it!

[Newjelan]

Some days I go to client meetings with a MB and a Pelikan M800, other days with a Schneider Base Pen and/ or a Smiggle $2 one. Just depends on what I feel like writing with.

[Cryptos]

Can't say I've had that problem, but I do have a problem that runs deeper: I get awfully embarrassed if someone watches me writing. Doesn't matter what I am using.

[Bigeddie]

I should add that I frequently go to lectures with the Hello Kitty pen, and I am the lecturer. I feel that it's nice to demonstrate that anyone can use any pen they like, though it generally goes unnoticed. Once or twice it has raised some interesting questions, not least from my soon to be wife!

[Cryptos]

Congratulations Bigeddie. Finding someone to share life with is very beautiful. Don't forgot to post a picture of the big day!

[Bigeddie]

Congratulations Bigeddie. Finding someone to share life with is very beautiful. Don't forgot to post a picture of the big day!

 

I'll be sure to - I have to get the registrars to let me use my Montblanc 145 75th edition to sign the register (it was my engagement present - equality is awesome, I get a diamond too!). I would use the kitty, but she would complain.

Edited June 6, 2014 by Bigeddie

[rwilsonedn]

wore a Snoopy watch for years... if anyone wasn't with the program, (childlike wonder of the world), to put an adult at ease, I mentioned I worked with children.

 

I can relate to that. Until it stopped running, I wore a watch with a beautiful rendering of Pumbaa on the face. It was great in meetings.

ron

[Ink Stained Wretch]

No one will notice.

 

And given what people use in terms of ballpoints, the fountain pan itself would be noticeable, if anyone actually looked and cared, but the colorful aspect of the Twist is just more color in a fairly colorful world.

 

Go for it!

Edited June 6, 2014 by Ink Stained Wretch

[Buzz_130]

Use it, enjoy it, and be yourself. You just might inspire someone to take a different or innovative approach to a challenge in their life rather than just following the pack.

 

Buzz

[Vgimlet]

Well, no. I love to surprise people, and have fun. I like being someone who has marched to my own little drummer all along.

 

Luckily I work in a library, not a corporate setting.

[elysee]

I do not care what others think about my pens. If I like the pen and like how the pen writes then I will use the pen. I choose my pens to please me, not to please others.

[Lou Erickson]

I don't work in an academic setting. I work in a very forgiving corporate environment in Silicon Valley.

 

They'll look at me funny for *having* a pen, not for which pen it is. The purple Metro, the "51" with the blingy gold cap, the Lamy Vista (filled with Diamine Pumpkin which is ORANGE!!), the Lamy 2000, the sparkly Jinhao x750, none have been noticed.

 

I get more comments because I wear shoes in the office than what pen I use.

 

But I work in that kind of office.