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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-07-11 9:35 AM, wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 7:50:54 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:

>> After we learned how to use dip pens we could use fountain pens. They
>> were typically loaded from the ink pot in the desk. Cartridges soon
>> became available, and in different colours. Peacock blue was always
>> popular with students but not with teachers.
>>
>>
> To be honest, I don't think they would have allowed open ink pots in
> any classroom when I was child, even all the way to senior high school.
> Ruined clothes, ink fights, spilled ink on the floor. Nope, definitely
> no open ink pots in a classroom.

True. Teachers and janitors were probably happy to see them gone. I once
got into trouble for a stupid prank. There was a cute girl seated in
front of me and her pig tails were often resting on my desk. Opportunity
knocks once but temptation leans on the door bell. I dipped the end of
her right pigtail into my ink pot. I don't think she realized that but
she probably sensed that something was a miss and jerked her head
forward, ripping her pig tail from my 10 year old fingers and onto her
immaculately clean white blouse.

> I've never anyone write with a dipped pen except on TV. It looks messy
> as hell and slow and tedious with all the blotting.

True. It was slow, but it was also an art form.