A Pen, A Pen, My Kingdom for a Pen

[amykhar]

With kids in the house, there's NEVER a freaking pen when you need one.

Am I evil to think about buying a few of these and thereby training my little darlings to not take my freaking pens?

ThinkGeek :: Shocking Pen

(I'd never do it, but I can dream can't I?)

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

*snicker*

[magenta321]

Heh I could have used that when I was in mammo.

First day, coworker who is training me says: is there anything you need in order to do your job better.

Me: I'd love to have a pen.

Coworker: pens are very hard to come by around here. Don't you have one in your purse?

Yes, we got a package of pens soon after when I did complain. That package was gone within a week, because all the other departments with no pens took ours. Eventually I took to buying the most ridiculous pens (at like $4 a pop!) so if anyone took my pen I could publically accuse them of theft. I could have used a shocking pen!

[pluckyduck]

amykhar said

With kids in the house, there's NEVER a freaking pen when you need one.

Am I evil to think about buying a few of these and thereby training my little darlings to not take my freaking pens?

ThinkGeek :: Shocking Pen

(I'd never do it, but I can dream can't I?)

Remembering the part where I sell pens for a living......and therefore have a theoretical endless supply of free pens......can I tell you, we have the same problem in our house?

Adam disassembles them faster than I can bring them home. He likes to see how they work. He takes the parts out, leaves out some, puts them back together. Pick up and pen and try to *write* with it? Falls apart.

Baxter won't chew bones but he will chew pens. He climbs on tables and counters (yes, like a cat) to get them. Fishes pens out of purses and pockets. Chews 'em to bits. Guards his shards with furrowed brow and snarls.

Then Don, Dan and I walk around the house just looking for pens....that *work*.