On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 10:44:34 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2018-07-11 9:16 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 8:41:11 AM UTC-4, S Viemeister wrote:
> >> On 7/11/2018 11:37 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>
> >>> Things must have changed in the generation between you and me. I learned
> >>> to write cursive with a pencil.
> >>>
> >> As did I.
> >> We started to use dip pens after learning cursive, then we were allowed
> >> to use fountain pens. None of my classes allowed ball-points.
> >
> > I'm an infant of 61. It was all ball points for us. As a lefty,
> > I've never been able to use a fountain pen. Not amenable to being
> > pushed across the page, and my hand drags through the ink.
> >
>
> You came along just about the time that ballpoints became cheap and
> reliable, and they seemed to have lost interest in penmanship.

I probably used mostly pencil up until 7th grade, which would have
been in 1969.

> On a side note... even though we had a bountiful supply of cheap
> ballpoint pens at work, I always used me own pens.

I buy my own pens, too. I like a fairly slim ball point pen with a
fine point. Looks like I've settled on Papermate Comfort Mate pens.

I still mainly use pencil, except for signing stuff.

Cindy Hamilton