How often do you see people using fountain pens?

[eroe]

It's funny, when I first bought my fountain pen I thought I would know no one who writes with fountain pens. However, it just so happened that one of my closest friends commented that she also wrote with fountain pens (but she never bothered bringing them to school). Other then her I have not met anyone yet who writes with fountain pens (I am hoping that I will be able to correct how many people I've seen with fountain pens after school starts!).

[lapis]

Very seldom

 

Mike

[Ghost Plane]

One of the romance writers brings a whole pen case with her to meetings.

[MegWesley]

I haven't seen another person using one yet but I haven't really been looking either. I just got mine this summer so I will probably spread the love around my school hopefully. I go to a very small all-girls college and who knows who I might addict here.

[Ghost Plane]

Found a fellow collector here. She tends toward finer nibbed pens and Shaeffers. So that's 3 of us in town, so far.

[fountainpenjunkie]

a co-worker recognized the 146 in my shirt pocket as a Montblanc. I had forgotten that he and I have talked fountain pens years before. While I offer pens for him to try, he always refuses saying, "I understand those will wear to your style of writing."

[Hellmark]

Really never run into anyone else with a fountain pen. Friend from work uses them, but sticks to gels at work.

[Bisquitlips]

It has been 19 years since I actually saw someone in the wild writing with a FP.

 

I use them almost exclusively at work and I feel like such an oddity at meetings!

 

But I think I enjoy being odd!

 

Is that odd?

[Snezhni]

Does my looking in the mirror count?

 

My thought, just about exactly.

[ImNotSam]

The last time I actually saw someone using a fountain pen daily was at work ... 30 years ago. He introduced me to a store in D.C. called, um, Fahrney's. Actually, there was one other person in that office who used a fountain pen - so that made 3 of us. And we were all young at the time. Heck, I had a desk pen I'd bought myself one afternoon in the nearby stationery/office store. (still have the holder; must go on the Bay one day and replace the pen).

 

Other than a friend from college who still occasionally uses a fountain pen (and brown ink, as always), I literally never see anyone use one. Can't remember the last time I did. I've never seen any of my students use one. Come to think of it, I've never seen a faculty member use one, either.

 

However, no one ever comments on me using one.

 

I don't count folks wearing pocket jewelry as users.

[Moynihan]

It has been about a year and one half, since last i saw someone else using a fountain pen.

[kubalai]

Only twice apart from school when it was required. Since then my brother who is a SF based CPA and my previous employers where the MD used a MB with MB black ink and the Sales Director useda Cross Silver Townsend with medium nib and Parker blue ink.

Sad to say no-one since. Perhaps we should all form our own business and so everyone would use a FP, but I guess there would be no work done and more discussions about FP !!

[jniforat]

basically never, unless i'm at the NM Pen Collector's Club or with EMM.

[omicron]

I saw a politician using a fountain pen to sign some documents ( A Lamy 2000). Also, getting some forms signed by medical directors for some project, all of them used FPs ( Don't know about the model) And, I believe the ink was Baystate-blue.

[fountainpenjunkie]

I don't count folks wearing pocket jewelry as users.

ImNotSam,

pocket jewelry = expensive pens?

[777]

My pastor carries a fountain pen with him wherever he goes and I see him 3 times a week!

[SignalboxCat]

Every day that I'm in the office and my boss is- he also uses a FP, albeit with cartridges

[BrandonA]

3 other people I work closely with at work have them. Two have cheap Parker's though as another has a £60 Lamy.

 

When I go to customer meetings because of the types of people I meet with a lot of them tend to have them as well.

[JLukeW]

Never, in real life, have I 'met' a fountain pen user, with two exceptions. My employer at the UofA (Alberta) used a Lamy Safari she was given by her daughter, but she picks it up about as often as a ballpoint, and upon mentioning my interest in pens she referred me to one of the heads of the Law department at the UofA who I talked to about what I should buy.

[dgator]

About a month ago, saw a guy sitting outside a coffee shop marking up a document with a MB.

 

I receive a few comments re: my use of fountain pens at the office. "is that a Parker?"