The Thread For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details — Page 138

I love clicky pens; they're good when you have nervous ticks.

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I will usually only use a black pen, but some days, I MUST use blue -- it's not like a pattern or anything, but I'll get sick of black and HAVE to switch.

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I think everyone's in a transitional phase in their mid-late teen years.

Really? I know that a "I'm the only one who feels this way" mentality certainly isn't true, but I can't help but look around at so many groups of friends who seem perfectly content and not in a transitional phase at all. I'm sure they'll all be plunged into one when they go to college, of course.

That's an interesting thought, nia. With me, no matter what the issue is, I nearly always look back on past times with fondness. I don't know if it's just a quirk of mine or extremely common, but I always find myself thinking about good times during middle school and forgetting, until I remind myself, how absolutely awkward I felt in a small, Catholic school. I do think most, if not all, friendships have some sort of value to them -- I mean, you likely got something positive out of it, right?

ETA: God, I'm always so behind with this thread. I'm sorry.

As for pens... I'm not picky about the ink as much as the pen itself. I hold pens in a nontypical manner, so most pens don't feel comfortable. I generally like Zebra and Pilot pens.

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It cracks my dad up that he'll buy a fancy pen and I won't want it but I love the cheapo pens he orders in bulk. He should just be happy that every time I misplace one, he gets a little bit of free advertising :-P

Mandi, I used to do the same thing when I was bored in class. Now I just go buy a book before class if I know I'm going to be bored. I should go back to the pen dismantling - it's a lot cheaper and doesn't result in the major storage space issues I'm going to have to deal with soon.

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Ew, Em! That happened to someone when I was in 7th grade, and it was a red gel pen so it looked really gross.

I have two Mont Blanc that I used for years, but have put them away for awhile. I use Vision Elite and a Flair sometimes. If you have been at the same desk for 15 year, you change our pens often.

Hi Em!

The bad things about the explosion is that I didn't learn; I STILL chew on my pens.

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I used to chew on my pencils in elementary school. They'd all look disgustingly chewed up, and no one ever wanted to borrow a pencil from me.

I always edit too late- Emcee, what does pen ink taste like?

Siamese, that's true. Even the crappiest of friendships still had to have some positivity to subsist on for their duration.

I used to think that people in groups didn't feel any of the instability that people without them felt, but the old friend I've been talking to recently has made me realize that even long-standing groups shift within themselves. No group's really quite as tight as they appear to outsiders.

As entendres are going... I don't chew my pens at all. Does that explain my lack of boyfriend?