You know you're a Fountain Pen Geek when...

[KrazyIvan]

Our mail room recognizes my packages and calls to let me know my pen(s) are here!

Oh man, do I ever get grief here for that.

[manoeuver]

You create an LLC (partly) to procure fountain pens and pay for them with pre-tax revenue. (office supplies!)

[rbadger332]

When the pen you've just bought can equal your car payment, and insurance, and....I'll stop.

[fountainpenkid]

fpgeeks come up first on your mozilla reccomended tabs

[tytoalba]

someone notices, and mentions what a cool pen you have, then after a brief description you notice their eyes glaze over - TMI.

[KrazyIvan]

someone notices, and mentions what a cool pen you have, then after a brief description you notice their eyes glaze over - TMI.

That just happened to me yesterday!

[caribbean_skye]

When all of your friends know you like fountain pens (and will even enter contests to help you win), will buy you nibs, ink, paper on their travels and are astonished when you buy something not FP related (tis rare but it does happen).

[drgoretex]

when coworkers notice that your pen often matches your tie, but you know the choice was made the other way arround

Brilliant! I have SO been there (like, every morning) - "Hmm...I want to use my Wall Street today, so my green shirt with the deeper pocket would be best...."


How about, I carry my printed patient list with me all day at the hospital. On the back of it is handwritten over and over (in various fonts) the name of the pen I am carrying, and the ink it contains. I have been asked about that a few times.

Ken

[tytoalba]

when coworkers notice that your pen often matches your tie, but you know the choice was made the other way arround

Brilliant! I have SO been there (like, every morning) - "Hmm...I want to use my Wall Street today, so my green shirt with the deeper pocket would be best...."


How about, I carry my printed patient list with me all day at the hospital. On the back of it is handwritten over and over (in various fonts) the name of the pen I am carrying, and the ink it contains. I have been asked about that a few times.

Ken

made me chuckle... what ink do you use? my Dr uses Aurora Black.

[drgoretex]

when coworkers notice that your pen often matches your tie, but you know the choice was made the other way arround

Brilliant! I have SO been there (like, every morning) - "Hmm...I want to use my Wall Street today, so my green shirt with the deeper pocket would be best...."


How about, I carry my printed patient list with me all day at the hospital. On the back of it is handwritten over and over (in various fonts) the name of the pen I am carrying, and the ink it contains. I have been asked about that a few times.

Ken

made me chuckle... what ink do you use? my Dr uses Aurora Black.

My two most-used inks at the hospital are Pharmacist's Darkening Absinthe and Diamine Registrar's Ink. Both iron gall.

Ken

[kaisnowbird]

...the first thing you do in any meeting is take a quick scan around the table to see if anyone happens to be using a fountain pen.

LOL. I actually did that the other day, and boy there are a lot of Montblanc look-alike ballpoints around the boardroom table.

How about:
... on a slow day at work, you create an inventory of all your fountain pens using Excel, just so you could sort them by various categories (eg. colours, nib grades, size/weight, vintage/year) and help you choose your daily carry combination in a all-around balanced manner.

... a colleague buys a Montblanc fountain pen online as a gift and you spot it as a fake one from three desks away, then lose sleep thinking whether or not you should tell the poor guy.

... download all your favourite episodes of FPTV onto your laptop/portable device, so you could watch them again and again even at places where you don't have a decent internet connection.

... putting a few pens up for sale and secretly hoping they won't sell, so you still get to keep them.

All true, of course. (Oh, I just realised I need a spreadsheet for ink as well. Gotta go!)

[wayne.robinson]

The Montblanc look alikes are probably my biggest peeve in a long line of peeves about knock offs. Either that or Luis Vuitton.

I see these knock offs as the ultimate in status-chasing and I think it is disgusting.

Buy the best quality you can afford in your budget. I've yet to handle any knock off item that is as good quality as the original or even similar products without the stolen brand.

[79spitfire]

You read the entire thread: "What is up with FPN"

[orfew]

When you rush home from work to check the mailbox for a new pen...before your wife checks the mail.

[cedargirl]

You collect pangrams.

[thagbert]

When you rush home from work to check the mailbox for a new pen...before your wife checks the mail.

What he said!!!

[BikerBabe]

- when your colleagues and friends - even online friends I've never even met! - is on the lookout for fountain pens for you, and will send/buy/get you fp's.

[kaisnowbird]

- every time people mentions timeless designs, all you can think of are classic FPs like Parker 51, Lamy 2000, MB Meisterstuck, etc.

[BikerBabe]

- every time someone writes/says "Sailor", you automatically mentally finishes with "1911"...

[Marsilius]

. . . your thirteen-year-old asks you to drive home from work to bring the permission slip to his school that he forgot to tell you about, and you are delighted, because you forgot your pens at home and were trying to think of a good enough reason to go back home and get some.