Oh my gosh I'd never thought of how difficult that must have been for left handers. Fortunately I think they stopped making us use the fountain pens by the time I was in 5th grade. But we still had to use the four-colored Bic pens
I’ve always want to use a fountain pen and create beautiful calligraphy. Alas, I just end up with smears on the paper and ink stains on the outside of my hand. 😂😂😂
I was a pretty indulgent mom but I was also a single mom holding down a part time job while going through nursing school. Keeping food on the table was a challenge, so some of those minor items just weren't in the budget.
By the time I could afford to buy stuff, the kids weren't interested.
I wanted the pen and the watch. As an adult, I now have both and in particular the Casio watch is amazing... I can't believe how inexpensive they are and they work great.
While the "nerds" were wanting to be able to do calculus on their wrists, the rest of us wanted to play video games during class on our wrists. Yes, I understand that the "nerds" had the last laugh! Lol
I'm an invigilator for exams in my local college in Ireland and could hear this constant clicking. It was an electrician exam and the students were clicking this pen from my youth to draw the coloured wires in diagrams! It's good to know the pens still exist and at least a few youngsters use them!
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Those things I couldn't get as a child? I've got them now! Trapper Keeper, Lite Brite, Spirograph. My parents couldn't afford those things. We got clothes & food. And I'm good with that!
I felt the same way about White Castle cheeseburgers. They were a rare treat as a kid but as an adult I made sure to have lots of them because I COULD.
I stopped b/c those onions hit a little differently as you get older.
I remember having exactly one box like this in my childhood. We sharpened them and had some of the popular colors down to the nubs. I think about that when the school would ask me to buy a new box of crayons every year.
I never agreed with that design, because I reasoned that one of the inks would deplete before the others, thus forcing me to get a new pen to use alongside. Defeating the purpose.
And I remember that our high school English teacher would ask us to buy copies of the books she assigned, since the library could not provide copies for everyone. They usually cost less than $2 back then, but my father would whine every time I asked him for it, though he wouldn't let me get a job.
This post is edging on boomer crap
“Kids today don’t know blah blah blah”
Technological advances are a good thing- I hope the next generation is even smarter than the ones today.
I was thinking today about the young 'uns. They don't seem to know the basics. Someone on tic tok Sikh teach them the basic.....about EVERYTHANG. Hit me up, I have some ideas.
I got one with even more colors for my 9th birthday. About an inch in diameter. Probably at least 8 colors. I kept it for decades. Sadly, it got lost during divorce.
I remember those--I think they had 12 or so. Some of the ink colors were weird, like lavender, but I guess it was trying to "one up" Bic. They were cool but ultimately a flash in the pan
Im tumbling towards 50 at this point and still remember the first time I got one of those pens in grade school. It was the greatest day of my life at that point.
Can't believe parents are so bad today they give their kids a $1500 toy that they don't need, which is used to take naked pictures of themselves, which is used to send out on the internet.
When I taught at a small college many years ago, I would hand out this pen to all the students on the first day of class; a welcome gift. They loved it!
Gen-Xer here. I teach at a technical college and have to use a black and a red pen interchangeably throughout the day. One of my graduating students gave me one of these. 🥹 One of my most cherished gifts
What happened to today’s young men? Mistreatment as a child, the ADHD diagnoses (and Ritalin) or the huge sense of entitlement? Perhaps they feel like they need to feel better by like-minded “boys” and join the cult with no way out now. A lot of variables…
I wanted to have this too with my pocket pin like engineers do. They love pins in their pockets. They're shirt pockets always have five pens in it so they can write better. I think. Whenever I see this, I ask them are you an engineer and they go yepyep.
I remember sitting in class and taking the insides of a pen, swapped it around and turning it into a spit ball launcher. I’d make the escape on my baby blue banana seat two wheeled rocket of terror. With a mouthful of big league chew, seemed like forever ago.
...and the calculator watch and Walkman's. I remember my father buying a Texas Instruments calculator (basic handheld model) for $300 in 1974. Now you see them in the dollar store.
We used that fancy 4 in 1 pen when I worked. Black for charting, red for charting the prns in the nursing notes and green for notes in the Doctors orders to Pharmacy. My 4 in 1 got jammed a lot! Can't remember using the blue colour often 🤔 💙
We were only allowed to use black ink for charting because the other colors didn't photocopy well. Keep in mind I started working as a nurse in the 90s, back when everything was still on paper.
Me, as well! Still feel 25 though, loved my career, love nurses and excited for the future and the direction the " young ones" will take our profession. I hope the patient and really caring stay at the core. The past 15 yrs for me was electronic charting. Was told that was coming since 1980 🖊
I remember giving a note from my daughter's teacher suggesting it might be inappropriate. It's a damn pen. I don't know why they wigged out about it so much.
A kid at my school had one like that, although I think the liquid was green. Some kids would dare each other to pretend they were injecting themselves with a drug in front of a cop or teacher. I don’t think any of them did it though.
I once gave one of these as a secret Santa gift to an administrative person at our lab. I will never forget how grossed out and offended she was to get it. I had no intent to offend. We lab rats thought they were cool.
I still remember my younger cousin playing doctor with me when she was about 7 and I was 10. She would give me a shot with her toy syringe that had a retractable needle, but first would say "This will only hurt a little bit." Makes me laugh every time I think of it all these years later.
I loved these pens. There were also felt pens where you could swop out the colour tip, pull it out and then push it into the pen, which pushed up the next colour as the tip. I loved those as well.
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That was always her answer too.
By the time I could afford to buy stuff, the kids weren't interested.
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I stopped b/c those onions hit a little differently as you get older.
Those days being a kid 🤯
I was a weird kid. Became a weird man.
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How many kids unintentionally got high sniffing the wrong markers?
They’re all like “My gateway drug was colored markers and sharpies!”
Blue, black, red, green.
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But i bet a lot of you did not play with one of these
Had one of these though I never knew why cuz I never really used it
I had one.
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“Kids today don’t know blah blah blah”
Technological advances are a good thing- I hope the next generation is even smarter than the ones today.
(Gasp) The Magic Pen of old!
Teachers are the best hoarders💗
It was my treasures
I saw this during an exchange program in France and brought one home. A treasure.
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Relax, not one of my kidneys.
Turns out I had ADHD all along and those were my fidget toy.
3,000$ on Ebay