Just the other day I was searching for some cards in our secretary (it's a desk), and I ran across several 'pods' of pens that my husband has purchased when he has been out shopping. He is always sure that we need some new pens. He will exclaim that he can never find a pen (because he leaves them all over the house, not in one place) like that justifies getting another dozen.
My husband and I had to do some last minute shopping for his dad and step mom this weekend, and so we ended up at Office Depot here in our town. One of the habits I really detest is people who are at a check out and they have to run off to get one more thing. Or they are waiting for someone to show up with one more item. For God sake, don't get in line until you are positive you are done shopping! As I was trying to fumble my way through the payment process at the counter, I heard, "......pens?" I barely heard him, or he misunderstood me (he has some hearing loss), because I said, "No", and yet as I am just getting my receipt, here he comes with a pack of pens! This wouldn't be a big deal, but it is so predictable. Thirty-six years of this makes me sometimes wish for a "poison pen".
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My dad swipes pens from everywhere he goes. He used to love it when I worked in another medical office and the drug reps used to come in and give us pens. Tuesday was our big rep day (we had 3 doctors in) and when I came home, both my mother and father would shake me down for pens!!!
Right now, I only have 3 pens and one highlighter in residence on my desk I do have 2 in my purse, one attached to my checkbook, and one in my big tote bag. I have a bunch in the desk organizer on my bookcase next to my desk, and I think one is on my dresser as well.....
Oh, and thank you for reading my story "The Bookcase." And you want to know something funny? Now I have a HABIT of leaving books laying around. Someday I will replace [the] bookcase but again, who knows, who really knows.
one day, when my guy got home from work, he was looking fixedly down between his chair and our secretary(she's 5'11', so i know he wasn't looking At her). when i asked why he seemed frozen in that position, he said "you Used one of my pens!"
"excuse me?" i sneered. "how would you know that?" his response was that he always Points them in a certain direction and Memorizes it! "And," he continued, "you replaced it with a candy cane!"
oops.