Worst Birthday Ever

[AmandaW]

Happy Birthday! Better late, especially if it's even better.

[PAKMAN]

Wow Rob what a beautiful fix to this pen. Congrats to you Arcadian!

[NoType]

8 hours ago, Arcadian said:

All’s well that ends well, and the wonderful PENRob has done an outstanding job bringing the pen back to new life! For its second act, it will be wearing a stunning dress of the legendary Tibaldi Impero! 

 

Needless to say, I am incredibly grateful for the work that PENRob has done. 
 

 

 - P. 

@Arcadian Please allow me to add my felicitations to those of @Misfit, @kazoolaw, @IThinkIHaveAProblem, @AmandaW, and @PAKMAN above!  Your innovative bespoke solution is a wonderful and quite lovely surprise!  May PENRob’s new creation provide you with a lifetime of enjoyment and stand as a momento of a birthday wrong corrected.

[boilermaker1975]

9 hours ago, Arcadian said:

 

 

@Arcadian I am so glad you got your pen repaired. @PENRob that was so wonderful of you to help!

 

On my 70th I was rear-ended. I was driving my almost brand new Tesla model 3! $6,000 of damage!

[inkstainedruth]

Well, hopefully your insurance will cover it.  

A number of years ago I was driving down to Mississippi and got rear-ended north of Louisville, KY in a storm where the traffic on the highway was already just crawling.  My two passengers and I were okay, and the other driver stayed on scene while I called 911.  Technically we should have pulled over to the right side of the road, but the heavy traffic made that impossible.  After taking everyone's statements, the cop had to play "spotter so I could pull back off the shoulder (which was difficult because it was so muddy that the cop also had to help my two friends push so I could get some traction).  And then the chick who hit us?  Started to pull out into the lane (!) -- but the cop stopped her.  I called the insurance company in the morning and told them the van was drivable and that I'd deal with paperwork after we got home, a week or so later.   

When we got home, the insurance company gave me the name of a local repair shop -- and then told me, "Oh, don't worry about the deductible -- WE'LL get that from the OTHER driver's insurance company!" 

Of course, we never got out of Kentucky that night -- and when I called my husband (who was driving a rental truck with the equipment separately, with another friend) it turned out that the rental truck had broken down, and he had to hire some Teamsters to transfer everything into a replacement truck.  When we took that truck back to the rental company after we got home, and told the story to the guy at the desk, he was like, "Oh, people from our company helped transfer stuff to the replacement truck?"  And was a little taken aback when told, "No -- no they didn't!"  I was really concerned because there was some stuff we were hauling down for other people that was QUITE fragile (a couple of chairs which were hand carved by a friend of ours) -- and I was already paranoid about them to begin with, after hearing a story about how someone had driven them around a campground on the back of a pickup and hadn't strapped them in, and didn't want to admit to it because they were afraid that another friend of ours would find out -- and that he'd leak the info to his girlfriend, who had been behind the project to begin with (she built the chairs, then got the woodcarver and the person doing the leather for the seats and back involved), and that SHE would go absolutely BALLISTIC....  So I did NOT want to be involved in any further possible mishaps (even though my husband ASSURED me that the guy driving down with him had packed the chairs in such a way that the truck could ROLL and the chairs would be okay...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lamarax]

15 hours ago, Arcadian said:

All’s well that ends well, and the wonderful PENRob has done an outstanding job bringing the pen back to new life! For its second act, it will be wearing a stunning dress of the legendary Tibaldi Impero!

 

Needless to say, I am incredibly grateful for the work that PENRob has done. 

 

- P. 

 

Oh wow! Nobody show this to Montblanc; they might be copying it and charge ~5,000€ for their upcoming special 'heritage edition' 😛

 

Congrats! ❤️

[PENRob]

We "make your pen great again" 😁 Happy that you are happy, enjoy her and thanks to all for the compliments ! 

[PENRob]

Some repair shots....

[RedPie]

Looks impressive @PENRob