Woman threatens lawsuit, takes pen.

[Sofar]

I liked that pen. It had stripes on it. Why do they destory everything good in our lives? This particular pen is a foutain pen, with a proper nib on it so my cursive writin' looks all fancy-like. Unlike my other pens, this one is cartridge-fed so I can take it with me. I even take it to work. It's got red and white stripes on it.

Anyway, on my counter there is a cup full of crappy ballpoint pens for the customers to use to sign their credit card slips. I try to keep my pen out of the hands of the customers, but they grab it every once and a while, because it is pretty. Most of my customers have never even seen a fountain pen before, so they just look at it funny once they uncap it and ask if I have any normal pens. One woman, however, after picking it up, proceed to try and write with it even though she did not know how. She held it wrong, and it wouldn't write. So, assuming it had gone dry, she shook it. And when you shake a fountain pen, ink gets everywhere. So, she gets spots of ink on her new green skirt. So she explodes, and threatens to sue, for she was about to go to a job interview, and surely she'll never get the job now. Her new "hundred-dollar clothes" are ruined, and surely she'll have my job for letting a customer use a clearly defective pen. She said she was going to call coporate, (you can talk to coporate in person if you want, he's sitting in a dingey office upstairs. He comes down for a burger every once and a while.) And so on. I try to inform her that the ink is alcohol-based, and will come out readily with rubbing alcohol. I get ink on my clothes all the time, I practice caligraphy and I use the same pens to ink my drawings. But she wasn't having any of it, and stormed out. And when I got back to my counter, I noticed that she took my bloody pen. IT HAD STRIPES ON IT. WHERE AM I GOING TO FIND ANOTHER PEN WITH STRIPES ON IT? Did she take the pen just to punish me for having a stupid old-fashioned pen? Was she going to burn it ceremoniously when she got home? WHY DID SHE TAKE MY PEN?

[Myra]

Oh I feel you on this one. There are few behaviors more evil and reprehensible than stealing someone else's pen. I don't even take cool pens to work anymore. And if I do, they are hidden. I got a spiffy heavy pen from my employer, and it came in a cool box. It stays IN the box when I'm not using it, and when I'm not at work, it's at home with me. If you steal my pen, I will probably put my patented, full-proof, anti-curse proof toe-stubbing curse on you. Which will suck. Stubbing your toe is never fun, and my curse is saved especially for the likes of pen-stealers.

Much bad pen karma for that lady.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

People used to regularly try and take the pen out of my hand at Kinko's. Sometimes, while I was writing. No "if you please" or "may I," no anything. Just pure, pushy rudeness.

I would just hold onto it more tightly and oftentimes would keep writing. If they wanted to keep pulling like a spoiled child, hey, I was up for that, too.

Usually, it evoked a slightly embarassed..."uh, sorry, can I borrow that?"

[Demonoid Phenomenon]

She obviously took your pen as evidence.

[Dips]

I liked the thread title. It kind of reminded me of an Onion headline.

I hope you can replace your pen and I also hope the pen thief accidentally sits on the pointy end.

[thewhatnow]

haha reminds me of that lady who sued mcdonalds because her coffee was too hot.. hahahaha, loser!

[TNT]

I'm with you all the way on this one... you don't screw with a person's pen. It's just wrong.

When I'm using my good pen...

Clueless person: Can I borrow your pen?
Me: You're not worthy.
Clueless person: It's just a pen, dude.
Me: 'Just a pen?' I feel so sorry for you.

[powerboy]

When I was working at Office Max, and on days. I would take to work this one pen, that my grandparents gave to me. It was not a fountain pen, or a fancy pen, it was speacial. Until this one JERK stole it from me. I letted him use it to sign his CC receipt, and the managers called me over. And I never saw that pen again.

[Becks]

I don't even like to let people use my crappy almost-out-of-ink pens.

[Slave to the Phone]

Oh NO! Not your stripey pen!!!

Every so often, I find the perfect pen and I love it. I really love using fountain pens, where did you get your stripey pen?

Every so often, I will forget and take my perfect pen to work. It almost always disappears in a day. Even out of my desk

Pen thieves deserve to forget that they pocketed a pen until after they have run a full load of clothing through the washer and dryer.

[batmoody]

I take my pen and wrap a couple rubber bands around the end. Then I crumple up a wad of paper and wrap that onto the end with more rubber bands. Then I take a paper clip and wrap that to the end with more rubber bands. By the time I am done, I have a pen with a big wad of rubberbands, paper wads, paperclips, and whatever else I can think of stuck to the end of it. No one ever takes it then.

[Sofar]

I really love using fountain pens, where did you get your stripey pen?

There's an art supply shoppe downtown, called Aaron Brothers'.

[Salesmonkey]

I'm afraid of taking a fountain pen to work because I find the only way to keep a nice pen is to wear it in my shirt pocket. I just try to make sure that the cheap pens we keep in a cup on the counter are still decent enough to write.

[Ryu]

itd be hilarious if she did sue you and took the pen to court as evidence, where you could promptly have her arrested

[Gypsy-Rose]

In the world of customer service, nothing is sacred...and I mean nothing.
Papaer disappears, pens seem to vanish and yes, even staple guns are not immune.

I can handle my notebook running off, I can handle rubber bands disappearing, I can't handle MY pens disappearing!

Finding a pen that you feel comfortable with, one that fits your hand just right and writes smoothly is like finding a winning lottery ticket... And believe me, I know that sounds wierd. But pens in my house have always been sacred, and for some odd reason, it always seems that when I find the right one, poof, they go missing.
Customers have a bad habit of that, and I learned the hard way years ago as a teenager when someone took my pen that had my name etched into it.

Though I always had hopes that whoever took that pen was a male that had to try to explain to his wife why he had a pen with a girls name on it.

I am sorry she took your pen, she probably did it out of spite..however, it would be funny if she put it into her purse and it leaked all over it.... One can only hope.....