Thursday, 19 January 2012
When I sat down in my chair at the class here in Janesville yesterday, the first thing I noticed was a box sitting on the table.
Curiosity quickly overcame my fear of unlabeled boxes, and I picked up the white box and began to inspect it. The cardboard was smooth; polished, almost.
The left side of the box was open and, using the convenient thumb-tab, I pulled out an inner box.
The inner box was monogrammed with a logo and the word “Parker.” I correctly surmised that it was referencing neither Peter nor Charlie but, instead, indicated that the contents were a very classy pen.
I was right.
Turns out, the box held a Parker Multifunction pen. The device can be used as a ball-point pen, pencil, fountain pen, roller ball pen, capping pen, or clicking pen.
Behold.
This is a beautiful pen. Flawless, really. It wrote evenly, both yesterday and today. I even like how it’s weighted.It’s finely balanced both from the left side to the right and from top to bottom. Here’s the proof:
Pen stands on end. Ergo, it is balanced from left to right.
Pen balances on finger at the point between the top and bottom portions. Ergo, it is balanced from top to bottom.
As I assembled the pen to use it for the first time, I said to the co-worker sitting next to me, “I feel like I’m about to sign a bill into law.”
And here’s the best part: We got to keep our new pens.