Where do all the pens go to??

Question

They vanish from my desk, people 'borrow' them and they are never seen again, I can never find the one I swore I put in my handbag, and no-one ever seems to have a spare one! Is there an International Pen Mountain somewhere??

Answer 1

The pen Monster READ TERRY PRATCHET

Answer 2

There must be an International Pen Mountain and some imaginary fairy must take the pens to that mountain because I have the same problem I never can find a pen when I need one. When I am at work I see a pen sitting right on my desk and then five minutes later when I actually need the pen or when I need it for a customer it just vanishes and I never can find any pen in sight and I look so dumb looking around everywhere for a pen while my customers are sitting there looking at me like I have three heads.

Answer 3

I have always favoured the elephant's graveyard theory. I have heard that Bic alone make about a million pens a day.

I tell the pen reps they should invent a pen that beeps if it gets more than a metre away from your desk. Probably not practical though. I've tried a couple you chain to the desk but in an emergency when I needed a pen further away I have yanked the pen off the chain.

Sheaffer do a pen called the Tagalong which is on a cord round your neck but that is dangerous around machinery and eventually gets lost too unless you wear it 24/7

Seriously the only advice I can give is to get a distinctive or expensive looking pen. Most people do not deliberately take your pens and are more likely to go to the trouble of returning it if it looks special. You can get your name and telephone number engraved on it too.

Answer 4

Why, Why, Why????

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?

Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough?
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle?

Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?
If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?

Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?

Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?

How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
where do all the PENS go?????????????

Answer 5

I confess - "here's one I stole earlier."

Because I visit about 4 different offices per day in the course of my work, I now have one of the world's largest collection of stolen pens. Well, nearly anyway.

Does anyone actually ever buy or pay for a pen?

One of the biggest laughs I had recently when out shopping with the wife was her pointing to a bag of cheap pens in a shop and her saying, "well, we won't be needing any of them for a couple of hundred years, will we dear?"

Okay, here's what I'm gonna do. If you can give me the correct serial number to one of the pens you had stolen from you, I'll rummage through my collection and see if I've got one of yours.

This is an excellent question by the way...where do all the pens finally end up? The Pen Grave Yard, just a few miles away from the Elephant's Grave Yard.

Answer 6

A pen is by nature elusive.

This is largely a matter of its shape. Because it's round, it will roll nicely on any angled surface. It's also fairly smooth, in the sense of not having any major appendages or knobs, which allows it to slide deep into crevices. Being slim and narrow also helps it hide in the bottom of your purse, in the back of a drawer, or between two books.

The elusive pen knows no owner and therefore passes virtually unnoticed from one person to another:

Since it lacks a homing device for its safe return, once a pen is passed--however innocently--it is likely never to be seen again.

You can't call it, as you would a dog. I wonder what would happen if you were to put your phone number on it, with a message for whoever comes into possession of it to call you--like people do with their cats, or sometimes even dollar bills.

Where would your pen travel? Where might it be at any given time? Could you put a Clapper on it?

Some pens have lamentably short lifespans. After escaping your pocket, your pen could be run over by a car or truck right there in the parking lot where it lands. Maybe we need a cemetery for lost pens.

And where do lost pens ultimately go?

The other person has it.

Answer 7

I think they have made an alliance with all socks as when I know for sure Have put a pair in the washing machine I only ever manage to find one of them! Getting back to your pens issue I can find a pen lying about but the mystery to me is why when you have large amount of pens and you are trying to write down a phone number you seem to pick out the pen that is dead also how is it that pens that have been thrown away seem to escape from the rubbish and re appear on my desk ? its all a bit X files to me

Answer 8

Pen fairies, pen heaven, pen thieves .. all valid answers!

Must admit, I even see myself do it sometimes. The worst place to collect random pens with no real intention of using them in the future is... Argos! lol. Always end up with atleast 5 when I go in there, even if I haven't used one of those little forms to order some stuff! I don't really do it anywhere else!

Answer 9

There was an international pen mountain courtesy of the EU but that's been wiped out through theft / bribery / etc at the eu parliament. Soon there will be a national shortage with the price of biro's going up to £3 per pen.

Answer 10

Pens are like that. I also lose pens here and there. People borrow for a minute and take along them. It is a bad habbit.

But I must admit taht beutiful girls lose pens very often. Boys like to take away them and keep for memory...I have done something like that several time. No offence. And I don't mean being cheap. It is fun. And girls also tend to give away pens to smart boys. :P

Razen

Answer 11

I once went out on a stationary buying trip. I bought 2 X 10 packs of pens. Two days later I went berserk, because I couldn't find one when I was on the phone and needed to take notes.
The next day I had to make a confession. They were all in my handbag! I now know why men hate having a female boss!