Comments on: Advice: Why you should have a beautiful pen.

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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:05:52 +0000

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By: penguy

penguy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:20:11 +0000

Thanks for the link:)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:56:12 +0000

Checks? CHECKS? What are these checks you speak of?

Actually, I had to write a check yesterday, and we were talking about how checks were really dying out. I looked at my checkbook (of 25 checks) and realised that in the last seven years (when I started this particular checkbook) I have only written 14 checks. And half of them are to the same person (my dentist, who doesn’t accept electronic payments).

Our working culture has changed so much that everyone turns up in meetings with their laptops — and most of us are so much quicker at typing than writing that the laptop replaces the notepad.

I carry a pen every day and feel naked without it — odd, really, considering how infrequently I use it.

By: Thea

Thea — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:32:10 +0000

You’re totally right. I have this beautiful pen that I use for Thank You notes, signing checks, and the occasional work meeting when I want to feel like a grownup. And I have this crap handwriting that has been utterly demolished by 12 years of tippety typing full-time.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:58:43 +0000

I’m all for using a good pen (and I own several), but let’s be honest — how often do you write something anymore? Beyond signing my own name, I hardly ever put pen-to-paper.

Apparently a whole generation of children are growing up who will never learn to write in cursive — just crude, functional, block letters.