Pens in your pocket
I don't like to keep very many things in my pockets. I don't like to wear a watch. It took me a long time to get used to wearing a wedding ring. I don't like clutter. Other than books and CD's, I don't collect or stockpile very many things.
My father, on the other hand, prefers to collect pens and keep as many as possible with him at all times. Observe the unaltered picture above. I believe he had a total of six pens in his pocket when I took this picture, but there may have been a hidden seventh behind the others. Sometimes he also keeps a few business sized envelopes in his pocket as well. I'm assuming that's because his desk and file cabinet are too heavy to carry around.
My father guards these pens with his life. One of my favorite things to do is to sneak up on him, swipe a few, and run. When I was a child, he used to chase me. Now that I'm 31 and still doing this, he's pretty much given up hope that he'll ever teach me to stop.
posted by Pastor John @ 2:43 PM
3 Comments:
My Dad is the same way. But he'll give up a pen once in a while. In fact if we are at the same event gathering or whatever, I will send someone in need of a pen to him. I was the same way, it took a while to get used to that ring, but now I'm 35 now and I am starting to carry one pen and a cell phone in that pocket. To paraphrase Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club, no matter how hard you try you eventually become you're parents.
I want so badly to see him and ask him if I can borrow a pen.. and yes I would totally run away with it.
I have to say that I knew this was your father before reading the post. I noticed he did that. I would like to see Maranda do what she said because she would and it would be hilarious.
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