Everything I sign smells like coffee now

Many pen casings have a hole in the side to prevent you from using them as a coffee stirrer again


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So anyway...not long ago, I realized I didn't grab one of those swizzle sticks (or maybe they're little straws, I forget, but that's beside the point) after walking back to my office with my coffee. This made me a little sad, since now all the good stuff would be settled at the bottom, and I'd have to drink half a cub of lousy dark, bitter coffee before I had enough room to swirl it around to mix it. I quickly glanced around the office looking for a swizzle or something I could use as a swizzle, ultimately deciding that a pen that was conveniently located on my desk would be an acceptable alternative.

Truth be told, I have three pens on my desk. Two of them are the cheapest kind of plastic crap you can buy at a bulk office furnishings store. The third is the second cheapest kind of plastic crap you can buy at a bulk office furnishings store, made more expensive by the rubber grip thingy on the business end.

Because it has the little rubber grip thingy on the end, I tend to use this pen more than the others. I'm actually not sure why I had the other two. Anyway, without thinking, and with assuming the casing was air-tight, I dump the back of the good pen into the coffee and give it a quick stir. Pulling the pen out of the cup revealed my tragic mistake. The casing of the pen was now full of coffee because this was one of those pens that has that little hole in the side for some completely unknown reason. Seriously...somebody tell me why that hole exists!

In an amusing twist ending, both of the super crappy pens are completely sealed, and would have made a better coffee stirrer than the "good" pen that I actually used. I've now purchased a small pack of swizzle sticks and keep them in my desk drawer for use on just such an occasion. I've also thrown away my good pen, and there's nothing left in the supply room but the crappy ones.