Pen

I love Reynolds pen. Not because it is a brand used by celebrities. Not even because you can flaunt it saying you paid 1 k for it. I love it for the opposite reason, it is just six rupees. Yeah, that is correct. You get a pen for just 6 rupees. That too at times, when people rarely get to transact in denominations less than 100. And it does write well.

And why would I buy an expensive pen. I rarely write using pen. Now a days, there are so many mediums which do not require you to use a pen. You can write in notepad (I am talking of notepad application in windows machine). You can write as a memo in your mobile. Most important of all you can write on a hand free device, not only when you are driving, but also when you cleaning the kitchen or cooking chapatis (more relevant to us SAHMs) which sadly has a poor memory and it keeps getting worse.

So with so many other not writing, writing devices available, when and why do i use the pen for. I use it for making grocery list. I use it for writing in my diary once in a blue moon about the fights we have, highlighting the points about how my spouse fought with me.  Which does not mean we have our fights once in a blue moon. I write only when both TV and computer are not available to me and I do not have any decent book to read and I am not feeling too sleepy. And some times I write things to do today like school kids and like school kids I do not do any single one. So for these very occasional jottings, a Reynolds pen is more than enough. And it lasts me for a life time. Its life time. I do not remember not losing a pen (losing as in losing , or losing as in being seized by my son) within a month of its acquisition. 

And it was not always getting this lowly treatment. It had its good time too. In nineties, my colleagues used to write their names on these Reynolds pens so that others will not take them.