There's something almost cathartic about a package of new pens. They represent a new beginning. The user can get off to a fresh start and use them to pay new bills, to write new phone messages, and to create new to-do lists that will be stuck on the fridge and perhaps glanced at once every few weeks before finally being crumpled into a small ball and tossed into the trash, with only the first item, "replace smoke detector battery", completed. There are innumerable things that can be done with a new pen until such time that it is inevitably lost under the couch or accidentally run through the washing machine.If you've ever worked in an office you know that hungry, almost insanely lustful look people get in their eyes when the supply drawer is restocked. Often times the individual who has been assigned the thankless task of maintaining the supplies has to come in early or leave late, just so that he or she can fill the drawer unmolested. Like a gazelle in the open plains, they are always looking over their shoulders, casting furtive glances into the darkness of the surrounding cubicles, knowing the onslaught could come at any moment. These pens are hot property, Jack, and combined with the fact that there might be some of those little colored paper clips? You can't be too careful.
hehe. I am a pen freak or a clepto. No matter where I am, if I see a pen, test it out, and love it, its mine. i have no disregard whether its my pen or the waitress's pen, it will be mine. =D
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