I realize that it’s been a while, but in my defense, I’ve been swamped with house sitting, work, buyingawiiandplayingitallthetime
Today while I was walking with some campers down to lunch, one little girl decided that she wanted to fill in her recently purchased (and severely misunderstood) day planner. She was happily putting little checks and exes in the boxes on the pages. Although she was, for a change, being quiet, she was walking more slowly, more slowly, more slowly. . . stopped.
I circled back, asked her to please put her little, pink book back in the bag and keep walking to lunch. She resisted, which I expected, so I politely had her hand it to me, and I put it in the bag. I also set the pen in the bag with it, and then she went ballistic.
“WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! YOU CAN’T DO THAT!”
“You can take it back out later, but now it’s time to get to lunch!”
“I know that, but my pen! MY PEN IS OPEN!”
Ladies and Gentlemen, let me tell you that to have failed to click the pen shut was the gravest of errors. Life and death may revolve around whether that pen lasts an extra day because it was clicked closed properly when laid in the bag. Nothing, not even lunch (about which this child is always especially excited), was more important than that pen being closed.
So this is my public service to you: Always remember to close your pens; your sanity may depend on it.
Zomg, I completely agree with this girl. My mother leaves pens uncapped (or clicked open) all the flipping time, and it drives me nuts. The ink will dry out! Zombies will see this as a sign to attack our house! Aliens will abduct all our good pens! BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN!
Props to you, little girl, for standing up for all that is good and lovely in this world.
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noted. also I don’t know why it would dry out faster if it were a clicky pen. the tip in no more covered just up inside the pen. at least with a cap they are normally air tight. unless there are slots at the end of the cap like bics are. only thing I can think is it might mark on something. but that’s all the reasoning behind always clicking a pen or capping it besides general OCD-ness. which I have sometimes. I tend to just click the hell out of clicky pen. I all but stopped using them.
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where’d my comment go?
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It had gotten marked as spam. But it is marked no longer!
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wow. really? that’s just odd.
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In my experience, it is a thousand times more difficult to get the ink to flow out of those cheap-o Bic pens (the type my mother leaves around the house) if they have been left uncapped for a while. Cheap clicky pens just don’t start well, period. My real issue with an uncapped or clicked-open pen more accurately echoes the issue I have with an undotted ‘i’ or an uncrossed ‘t.’
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Luckily, when you type, that’s not an issue. :)
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