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2009-06-06

Multipen

in: Annandale New South Wales, Australia

Have you any idea how hard it is to buy just one pen? No, you haven't, because you pinch them from work. Not just because it's cheaper but because it is nearly impossible to buy a single pen from anywhere once working hours are over.

I wasn't looking for anything special either, no Doctor Who pens that automatically write in alien languages, just a simple ballpoint (black for preference). I went to a service station and remarkably there were no pens at all. As many toothbrushes and razors as a guy could want and considerably more porn but no pens. I could have cleaned my teeth, shaved my nuts and wanked myself silly but the suicide note would have to wait.

I tried two supermarkets both of which were happy to sell me multiple pens but not a single one. I could have 3 pens or I could have 17 pens for the price of four but not one. The bookies would lend me a pencil but there were no pens I could take:

"Too sharp mate. Mightier than the sword. Can't give weaponry like that out after dark."

Eventually after a suitable amount of cursing I found myself in a third supermarket where I could buy one pen - with four colours. It's too big, too blue, it has oil-based ink and I hate it but any port in a storm.

2 comments:

  1. You're quite right, I DO pinch them from work, usually when V runs out of pens and asks me to. I did manage to buy one once, but it was a fountain pen, not a cheap ballpoint, and I bought it to pose with rather than write with (it does write well though).

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  2. I have several fountain pens to pose with but have had to stop using them after I let someone look at one of them and she dropped it nib first on the floor!

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