That's a $3 Pen

Well, I just finished my last final exam of Fall semester 2010. Whew. Also, my 48 hour extreme depression has finally subsided. Believe me, it was a bad one. I didn't leave my bed at all. Unless I really needed to.

Anyways, with all of that out of the way, I'd like to talk about the economy. Yuck. Well, luckily for you I am only going to talk about the economy in relation to how it's affecting me. I love my job. That being said, I only make just barely enough every two weeks to pay my bills and maybe buy a bag of chips.

These chips. Mmmm.

So this morning (in preparation for a meeting and my final exam), I was looking through my pen mug--

Yes, pen mug. People have them.

--when I realized that I was completely out of my favorite pen brand!! This was not good. This particular brand of pen was something I had grown so accustomed to, it was like a part of me. I would even be recognized by my pen. The way it wrote so smoothly... People would see things that I had written and say, "Yes. Cody wrote that." When someone would ask to borrow a pen, they could count on me to hand them this exact pen. The Uni-Ball Signo.

That's a $3 pen.

Complete with fine gel ink and an ergonomic rubber grip, this is God's gift to man. As far as pens go. It even advertises that it helps eliminate check fraud. Go ahead and try to wash the ink out of my checks. It won't work. You bastard. This pen has become a staple (pun intended) in my everyday life.

Unfortunately, I am all out of them. The ink has run dry. And because of the economy, I can no longer afford to buy $3 pens. So... I guess this is the end of an era. And the beginning of a cheaper, and less finely written one.

This pen sucks, you guys.

Cody M. Logeland