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Pens disappear one after another

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StationEry drives me mad sometimes. Have you noticed that unless you chain a pen to your wrist, you can never find one when you need it?

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Worse still, there's plenty of them around when you don't need one. Pens are like rats; constantly spreading, multiplying and hiding when you look for them.

Walking through a stationery store in Hong Kong is a unique experience. Who would have imagined that there could be so many varieties of writing utensils, each designed for a specific purpose?

Need a pen that's also a pencil? How about one for drawing blueprints?

I'm fairly certain that the only kind of pen I haven't seen is one designed not to be lost.

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Pen cases don't really help. They just clump all your pens together, so that they can all disappear at once.

Do you ever wonder where these pens go?

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