Why the fuck do people steal pens!?

[lucysmam]

It does my fucking nut in!

I go to work with two...often come home with one & end up chasing it down to someone in First Aid the next day who is happily using it.

I take a flamin' pencil case to Rainbows and Guides so I have everything I might want. One of my other leaders literally brings herself...every week...borrows a pen...and makes it disappear ffs...& then when I ask about it says "oh yes, so I have" but they never re-appear.

I'm down to one pen now.

& yes, I know they're cheap as chips, but ffs BUY YOUR OWN BLOODY PENS! I buy the ones I buy specifically because I struggle to write with some shapes of pen (circular ones in particular I'm a fussy fucker)

Ah, is that why I can't close the top drawer of my desk?

I thought they bred in there as I never buy any.

Maybe I pick one up and when I've finished absent-mindedly put it in my top or inside pocket?

Pocket - it's a boy-thing, you wouldn't understand.

(practicing my man-splaining as we are about to visit our fairly new daughter-in-law: I must start off on the right foot if I'm to make her miserable for the rest of her life.)

Tragedy
"I steal pens. It's a hobby."

Ha i came on to say the exactly the same thing!

I don't have a pen I love, because I'm an adult

Ahh, I didn't realise my love of a nice pen rendered my age and experience invalid.

I'll have to remember that next time when I'm skipping into the Waterman shop. They're definitely aimed at children.

Can you still get pens on a string that goes around your neck? I've put the fear of God in my colleagues and no one nicks my pens.

I am a "net pen accumulator" too. I don't plan it and I can't explain it.

You could open a substantial branch of Rymans with the pens I have at home.

Yep and don’t even start me on the rage when someone takes a pen and then CHEWS ON THE LID!!!

When I was a smoker, I remember I'd go through phases where I'd either be a lighter loser or a lighter thief.

I somehow always had 0 or 5.

I'm a supply teacher, I used to lose pens all the time.

I now have glittery pens with 'stolen from Ms sashh' on them, they come back. I did have a couple of vouchers and got a 2 for the price of 1 offer. Some of the best money I have spent.

www.nationalpen.co.uk/uk/products.asp?prod=CLR&UID=049048049048056051049051053052050052&headerCategory=Pens

I used to chew the ends of my pens at work - nobody wanted to borrow them all cracked and full of tooth marks

I got so tired of people taking my pens that I stuck string to the end and attached it to a drawer. Also had some that I wore round my neck. I actually still have those because no-one borrowed them.

My combs used to go too, until I bought a huge one with an animal design that was too big to pop into a pocket.

Buy her one of those pens on a lanyard from a poundshop, label it with her name. Then next time you see her, before she's had time to ask, go over and hang it round her neck and say "Ah, Susan, we thought it was time you had your own pen, instead of always stealing ours!"

I have pens I love!

Im a pen thief. I admit it. Love pens! Esp when they have hotel bames etc. I used to work for an education department and they had branded pens. I used to collect them (nick them) and i took them to my now place of work.

People don’t dare take themcos they know they’re mine!

Next time someone asks to borrow a pen, make a point of using the blunt end to clean out your ear, then carefully inspect it before offering it to them. You can start when you see a habitual pen-taker approaching.

The problem is caused by Pens Envy. Freud wrote about it.

Only lend out cheap and crappy pens....

Oh, I sympathise.

I don't work in an office or with other people any more, but when I used to, I'd leave my desk jar full of pens and come back from my holiday to a desk that looked like a plague of stationery-eating locusts had been over it.

At the moment, we have a little jug on our kitchen table. At first it contained useful things: a pencil or two, a blue pen and a black marker – but over time they've morphed into a couple of those crappy flat pens you get given out for free, pencils with snapped leads, the inside bit of a biro and sundry tangled grubby elastic bands.

I have a set of pencils with “stolen from companylovesmisery” on them. Stops no one taking them.

Buy one of these and glue it to your desk

www.zoro.co.uk/shop/office-supplies-and-stationery/ballpoint-pens/kf00233-reception-pen-with-chain-and-base/p/ZT1049311X?utm_campaign=pla-Office+Supplies+%26+Stationery+-+&utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping-pla&utm_keyword=ZT1049311X&istCompanyId=6aa6787b-063e-4414-802d-129f235df603&istItemId=wtqimwlrrt&istBid=tztx&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-KDOsZX83QIV1uJ3Ch2GdgALEAQYASABEgKpYvD_BwE

Put some of these posters around the office

All pens belong to the community.

company yesssss....

Back in the days when I worked in a High Street Bank people even managed to steal the pens that were attached to the counter!

Our house seems to be overflowing with pens. I think DH accumulates them at every conference he goes to. The all have various things printed on them relating to his industry. I'm more than happy to allow anyone who borrows a pen from me to keep it - can't get rid of the things fast enough.

I am a teacher. I always steal pens from pupils. They are quick to remind me though!

I have a pen with Donald Trump's head on it. When you press the button on top, it says..."I will be. The greatest president. In history."

When someone asks to borrow a pen, you just look up impassively, hit the Trump button, and slowly hand it to turn while they furiously backpedal. Problem solved.