What's perhaps ironic about my obsession with Sharpie's (and all pens for that matter) is that I have the world's worst hand-writing. It's bad. Sooooo bad. Awful. Horrible. It's so bad sometimes I can't even read it. I have been told that it looks like "Chinese". I've also been told my cursive and printing look exactly alike, even though I swear I move my hand differently when I write cursive vs. printing. I know it's a sin, but I envy people with good hand-writing. Being a woman and having awful hand-writing makes me feel just a little less feminine. Girls are supposed to have pretty hand-writing, aren't they? I so didn't get that girly trait. Not by a long shot.
Even though the sales clerks in Staples have no idea how bad my hand-writing is, the dichotomy of my obsession with pens and my bad hand-writing gets the best of me every time I'm at the check out buying pens. Every time I find myself in this place I say to the sales clerk, "I'm looking for the pen that will make me have good hand-writing." I usually get a blank stare. But somehow just saying that makes me feel better.
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Ah, yes. That reads as if I might have written it about myself. LOL!
I knew we were kindred spirits. I, too, love Sharpies and pens of all kinds. I think it harkens back to how much fun it was buying school supplies. If you happened to read Ode to a Pen on my site, that was written about an ergonomic pen shaped kind of like tweezers that I found at Staples.
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