Don't do that. I broke a misbehaving student's pencil in half once, and I kid you not...25 years later... I still regret doing that.
In my own defense, I was a substitute teacher and these were junior high school kids.
I’m old school, just hit them with the malocchio (evil eye). I throw that at them while thinking what justice should be done upon them, then sorriso malvagio (evil grin).
Wow, I wish I thought of this when I was running McDonalds. I used to tell my crew to smile but imagine a huge bus hitting them. That’s how I taught Karma.
While mostly true, I can see why some people might struggle, if they don't know that there is a correct rotation of pen in hand needed, and/or if they have an unconventional grip or writing habits (such as making upstrokes).
If this is one's first exposure to FPs they wouldn't even know what to fix
I will say though, when my first grader was using one of my fountain pens for the first time, she hit these hard. As a note, she's already figured out ballpoints suck, and her fav writing pen is the Uni Vision Elite rollerball.
Of course, while frustrated, she handled it with a lot more grace.
It was a Platinum Preppy (my go to for using Platinum Carbon Black pigment ink), if the nib had been wrecked it's thoroughly replaceable. She's already into the idea of refillable/fountain pen ink markers, this was just first time really writing with a metal nib instead.
I used to do this right in front of them with their own receipts when they tried to return something they broke a year after the defect warranty expired.
My customer yesterday “I don’t need a receipt , I’ll return whatever I want. I’ll call my lawyer and tell him I lost it up my ass” some people are just such shitheads
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In my own defense, I was a substitute teacher and these were junior high school kids.
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I used to do this but had to stop when replacing my floor became to much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tigDrtGLkSQ
1) Life is too short
to be so miserable,
2) I'm glad I'm not married to him/her. 😉
Carry a regular ballpoint pen, and a fountain pen.
Customers who annoy you get the fountain pen. No one knows how to write with them today, and they will destroy the paper.
You'll have to replace nib's fairly regularly tho.
They would tear the paper, or get no ink, bang it against the counter till it bent... Anything but hold it at the right angle and write.
Not the most impressive selection of customers.
The only thing i've ever been able to figure is they just have an automatic habit for signature.
You hand them the fountain pen, they fire off the standard "Sign paper" message to the hand, and... well... oops.
If this is one's first exposure to FPs they wouldn't even know what to fix
Of course, while frustrated, she handled it with a lot more grace.
I am in awe of your sheer bravery in giving a 1st grader a fountain pen, even deeper since it appears to have gone well.
Needless to say, I don’t work in retail anymore…
Need another one?
I can’t wait that long. 😑
I'm so proud of you.
Thank you for a timely reminder that politeness costs us nothing, and may even save our eternal soul.