Guys.
Ball point pens have been useful to us for so many reasons. Many reasons other than their intended purpose. Which is, of course, writing things and communicating on any given substrate.
Can’t open a box of Costco Diapers fast because you have one hand on the baby and another hand holding a poopy diaper together? Stab a pen in that tape and pull and just rip it open animal style. Same goes for wipes.
Baby fussy in the car? Hand her a pen (clicked in, of course) and she’ll play with it for a few minutes before she starts breaking down again.
Kids shifty and looking to destroy something? Have them take a pen apart and put it back together. A dozen times.
Car shifter broken? Just keep a pen in the car and stab that into the release hole any time you need to move. No big deal and you avoid a hefty replacement bill. (Yep, we’re still holding out for that new shifter).
We have dozens of pens in this house that don’t even write, but we’re ok with that. We avoid unnecessary and annoying things like having the walls marked up.
P.S. if anyone is looking for a part-time job, you can come weed out our pen collection.
An American humorist, writer and author. When boiling down the chicken soup of life, she finds those golden, fried nuggets of truth & writes them long after the kids go to bed.