Consumptivitis
Filed in: personal, Thu, Aug 14 2003 00:59 PT
My wife bought a pen yesterday.
Specifically, a Montblanc Boheme Platinum Line fountain pen. That is, she bought a $400 pen.
Hey, don’t look at me. She bought it with her birthday money. And she works for a bank. And it is truly a superior calligraphic machine. And I damn sure know better than to point to the bucket of pens I’ve stolen from various places of business (it’s my personal favorite vice) and say, “but you have hundreds of perfectly good pens right here!”
But in case any of you who admire me from afar are thinking about buying me a $400 pen, you should buy me a $100 pen and a DVD-rewritable drive. Or two $10 pens and a 15-gig iPod (with educational discount). Or — ooh! — one of every Prismacolor colored pencil that’s ever existed. I have enough trouble, as she at one point constantly reminded me, keeping track of my wedding ring. (Jeez, you leave your ring home for one two-week-long honeymoon…)
