{"id":431,"date":"2013-04-05T18:04:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T01:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=431"},"modified":"2013-04-06T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T04:40:02","slug":"persistent-pen-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Persistent Pen Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you sick of the pen topic? I know I am. I still want them, though. New pens, vintage pens, other people\u2019s pens…… but I\u2019m not giving in these days. I just drool inwardly and keep moving.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking for a good pen therapist. because as I\u2019m getting rid of all these pens — which has been really hard — I\u2019m realizing that i have a serious phobia about being caught without a pen. Suppose someone commits a heinous crime and jumps into a car and I\u2019m standing right there and I don\u2019t have anything to jot down the license plate number with and they get away scot-free? My one shot at heroism, vanished. The only use I can ever hope to be in such a crisis, indeed one of the few things I\u2019ve been good for in the world — moving a pen across paper — all for naught.<\/p>\n

Recently there was an \u201cincident\u201d at work — there was yelling and thumping and I knew it was coming from Mr. Problem, who\u2019d just walked by. I feared it was a crisis-in-progress. I tried to dial 911 but couldn\u2019t remember the number. Or how to operate a telephone. Had there been a license plate number to write down, I know I could\u2019ve executed that task. For that, I\u2019m prepared.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve seen the pens I accumulated in my home. I also carry many pens with me wherever I go. I am way<\/em> beyond pocket protector. At work, where one\u2019s space and accoutrements are often perceived as communal, I\u2019ve resorted to a tool belt.<\/p>\n

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See? There\u2019s no way I would\u2019ve failed to grab a pen, had there been something to write down. And in the back panel of that tool belt are stashed multiple blank cards — the backs off of small tablets that we plow through at work, that I tuck in there for just such an occasion.<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re wondering how the above scenario played out, it turned out that calling 911 was not the thing to do anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never call 911 for him,\u201d said my boss.<\/p>\n

Apparently he\u2019s just business as usual. We save 911 for the seriously scary. Who knew? He sounded scary to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you sick of the pen topic? I know I am. I still want them, though. New pens, vintage pens, other people\u2019s pens…… but I\u2019m not giving in these days. I just drool inwardly and keep moving. I\u2019m looking for a good pen therapist. because as I\u2019m getting rid of all these pens — which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82,24],"tags":[84,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}