Editing The Pen Addict 329/transcript (section)

== Horror Story Topic ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. So the idea came up. It was probably late September. Maybe it was early October. But when Andrew in the Slack room mentioned it, I said, number one, this is perfect. And number two, it's the perfect month to do this. So, I mean, it was just fortuitous timing, if you will. But yeah, it all just worked out. So number one, great idea. Number two, perfect timing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So what are we going to do here? We're going to read some. I'm going to read some. We're going to decide if any of them get into the Hall of Fame.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, we could read them and we can mutually decide, you know, is this story good enough? And I think, honestly, we should be very strict. Like the Hall of Fame is not the Hall of Very Good. So here's what I think we should do here.

'''Myke Hurley:''' One, so you don't completely lose your voice. We will round rob in these. You'll read one. I'll read one. Once we've read them all, we'll decide if any is Hall of Fame worthy. I think because then you can compare them to each other, right? Yeah. Rather than just being like, oh, that was bad. Because we don't have a baseline yet, right? For what is Hall of Fame worthy. Maybe we'll get there today. Maybe we won't. We'll see. So do you want to go first?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So I'll get this first one from Junie, our friend over at Althaven. Wonderful blogger. She does a great job. So she says, I am a proud owner of a Lamy 2000 with an extra fine nib. It was one of my few gold nib pens then. I kept it inked up frequently and I love taking it to work. So one day the pen decided to roll off my table. It's not something it hasn't done before, but this time it fell nib first and it died. The nib was completely bent. Thankfully, Sunny of Straits pens. We all know Sunny. Shout out to Sunny. Fixed it for me. It writes, but it was never the same. It wrote wetter and broader after the fall. And I was pining for the old nib. At one of the local monthly pen meets, someone was selling a ground extra fine nib that writes finer than what I had. The price was too good. So I took a leap and got the second one and sold my original Lamy 2000. Then it happened again.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, no.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' My new Lamy 2000 took a nosedive, nib first, less than a year later. I've since come to the conclusion that the Lamy 2000 and I are just not a match. Somehow they never liked me enough to stick around.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's bad. Because at first I was like, we've all done this. We've all dropped a pen. But to buy a new one of the same pen and have the same accident?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's pretty bad. This is signs that you're a pen addict, right? If you go through this process and it ends up the same way, I might have even bought a third one, Myke. I'm not going to lie. It's like I am like it's the Sisyphean thing where I'm just going to roll the rock up the hill and I'm going to let it smash me on its way back down. Then you know what? I'm going to get behind that dang rock again and we're going again. So that was Junie's entrant. I think we can all feel her pain in that one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So this one comes from Jonathan. I started collecting pens from the 1970s to the 2000s and found during my search, Rotaring Pens, my favorite. I've always been, my favorite has always been the Rotaring 600 Newton Copper fountain pen. This is quite a rare pen and was the jewel of my collection. And then it vanished from my pocket. The search began again. And after several months of replacement was found, the world of fountain pens was once again in balance. But this is where my horror story begins. My favorite Rotaring vanished again from my pocket, leaving a clue. Sounds familiar. Yes. Yeah. Leave. It left a clue this time. A clip from the pen cap was the only trace. I cannot be without this pen. Yes, I am a fully paid up member of the Pen Addict Club. So I am on my third Rotaring 600 Newton Copper fountain pen. To keep my nightmare at bay, my Rotaring 600 Newton is kept under house arrest and will never leave my study.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Third time's a charm, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love the idea of the clip being left behind. Right? It's like teasing you. Where did it go?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I... How is the clip attached and the pen gone? This is it, right? That's some real CSI stuff that needs to be looked into. But Jonathan, he went for round three, Myke. He was not playing. No.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're still going, right? The search is not... Hey, here's the thing about this one. Yes. Here's the thing about this one. Mm-hmm. Why this is, I think, particularly bad. This is a pen that you can't just buy. Yes. That's what makes this particularly bad. Also, I just found some images of it. Gosh darn, it is beautiful. Like, wow, I've never seen one of these before. That is a beautiful color.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I thought the same. I'd never seen this pen before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All I've got is a not great eBay listing that I'll put in the show notes. Just so people can see what it looks like. But yeah, that is... I'll put a picture. Oh, okay. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I didn't put it in the show notes, but I can do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So, yeah. Get me that picture, and then I can share it with everybody. But yeah, this is a bad one. This is a bad one. That's expensive. It's going to set you back.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What's the eBay listing for? Oh, $70. Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This was in 2015, though. So, you know. Oh, okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Andrew probably... Or Jonathan probably bought it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You probably did.