‘Rejoice With Me, For I Have Found My Pen Which Was Lost!’

[Francis_Rex]

I had a horrible experience. I could not find my edc, my go-to pen:a matte black Pilot Capless (or Vanishing Point).

 

I travel about from office to office and worried I had left it behind or worse it had slipped out of my bag on the Tube.

 

I could not put my hands on my pen. I went to my bag and turned that inside out. I went to my wardrobe and searched the pockets of every jacket I had worn recently.

 

Then I did it again.

 

I went through my desk.

 

I went through files and folders I had used.

 

I could not find my little baby.

 

I went on websites to price a replacement. I could not imagine life without it.

 

I was starting to obsess about a black inanimate object. Its not like it was my only pen. I have a 30 odd pens, but this was my go to edc ready for anything ,smooth as you like Pilot Capless.

 

So I was packing my bag to go to work this morning. I had to take my laptop and its power cable which I keep in a Eagle Creek Pack-It bag.

 

“I wonder, if I put my pen in here?” I thought, remembering I had swept my desk clutter into the cable bag as I left an assignment last week.

 

Well, Joy of Joys, there was my little baby lost among a coiled up power lead!

 

I have been reunited with my little baby.

 

It was then I realised that I need to recognise I have an addiction to fountain pens.

 

What is it with these things that the loss of some metal object got me like that?

 

Am I alone?

 

btw: the image is from FP Geeks:http://fpgeeks.com/2012/06/pilot-vanishing-point-black-matte-the-awesome-review/

[Mopen]

Nope.... I have so many pens, and yet I am so distraught When I misplace one of them!

[yogalarva]

I had a brief moment yesterday where I couldn't find my EDC Safari and in my head I was screaming 'NOOOOOOOOOOOO!' Luckily, I had put it in my bag instead of desk drawer, so all was well. I feel ya...

[wastelanded]

Rejoice indeed! The joy in this case is even greater than when one first bought the pen. Very pleased for you.

[kenshiro]

What man, if he has thirty pens and loses one pen, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until he finds it?

[dunhamsa]

  On 4/8/2014 at 1:19 PM, kenshiro said:

What man, if he has thirty pens and loses one pen, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until he finds it?

 

Good! That is the spirit exactly.

[MBFan]

Yay for you. I have the same VP as my EDC and wouldn't know what to do without it, I'm glad you found it again

[Uncle Red]

Glad you found it in good shape. Enjoy in good health.

[OcalaFlGuy]

Since you carry your pen in another case, and that finish does scratch I think, consider getting a carry case for your EDC pens.

 

You can put a label on the outside of the carry case with your name and phone in case you leave the case somewhere, that's much harder to do with a bare

pen.

 

I also find that the added motions of putting the pen in the case and securing the case flap has me think just enough more to make it unlikely I'll leave the case somewhere.

 

Very glad you found it.

 

+1 to kenshiro's verse!

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[Lorna Reed]

Very pleased that the prodigal has returned.

[peecee57]

While reading this thread i automatically opened my desk drawer to check on my pens even though i knew they were there, it must've been a real relief when you found it safe and sound.

[PAKMAN]

Congrats! It is indeed worrisome when one of our babies is lost!

[kiavonne]

Ah, so glad you found it!

 

I, too, have felt that deep thud in the pit of my stomach when I thought I'd lost one of my pens!

[cleosmama]

  On 4/8/2014 at 2:33 PM, peecee57 said:

While reading this thread i automatically opened my desk drawer to check on my pens even though i knew they were there, it must've been a real relief when you found it safe and sound.

 

I laughed because I did the same thing, too. It's not like there is a fountain pen gremlin. There isn't a fountain pen gremlin, is there?

[Montblanc owner and lover]

I have the same tough i haven't lost any pen for more than 2 minits. But it often happen that i touch the Pocket of my jacket to see if they are in place and if i don't feel them i start to be anxious,my heart get faster and then i think that i letted it home or in my bag OUF!

[FayeV]

A happy reunion indeed!

 

I am more likely to misplace the iPhone than the FP.

 

I agree with Bruce about using a pen case.

[KBeezie]

That pen does seem easy to lose.

[yamaha_no_46]

Congrats! Happy for you. It is the same for me. Once I forgot my pen case on my desk at work and went home. It was loaded with the VP Decimo and an Omas Ogiva Autunno BP. I could not sleep until morning thinking somebody could take them away from me. I wish I could be more relaxed not to load any sentimental value to a non-living thing. I wish I could do that But I would never call one of my pens a baby You have gone too far

[CharlieTurtle]

  On 4/8/2014 at 5:11 PM, cleosmama said:

 

I laughed because I did the same thing, too. It's not like there is a fountain pen gremlin. There isn't a fountain pen gremlin, is there?

 

Don't be ridiculous, it's obviously a fountain pen fairy which carefully whisks your pens away to write all those notes thanking little children for their teeth!

[inkstainedruth]

One of my pens, my sentimental favorite blue Parker Vector, has now been christened "Perdita" because I have lost the danged thing twice -- the second time for nearly 10 months in my house. Fortunately, it turned up unexpectedly, and -- even more fortunately(!) -- I had just finished flushing it before it got mislaid.

If I mislaid one of the really good pens, I'd be hyperventilating....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth