Editing The Pen Addict 329/transcript (section)

== New Listener Submission ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' All right, Myke. Our final submission comes from Amit. Amit says, It was the December of 2013, and I was cleaning out my desk in my office a day before beginning a new phase in my life. The next day, I was going to a very big official ceremony in which I was to be introduced to the President of Israel and some other high-level dignitaries. As the new phase in my life was a big professional promotion for me, as well as fulfilling a lifelong dream, I decided to treat myself to a tour of the fancy Mont Blanc boutique in a shopping mall in northern Tel Aviv. I love how international our audience is. It's so cool. I was very happy to find the special edition ink titled Season's Greetings in both pine green and red berries. Two inks that not only had perfect colors, they were scented. The green smelled like pine trees, and the red smelled like strawberry or something of the like. I put the ink in a plastic bag, put it on a car seat next to me, and drove through traffic to a lunch date I scheduled of a dear friend from my former office. In one of the traffic lights, I absolutely had to smell the ink again, so I reached out, took the bottle out of the bag, opened the cover, oh my god, where is this going, and sniffed it. Then I closed the ink, put the bottle back in the bag, and kept driving. I think it was two traffic lights later that I felt the need, what are you doing, Amit, to re-smell the ink. So I reached into the bag, and I felt something on it. As it turned out, the bottle of red ink was not properly closed. Now, if you know the Season's Greeting, Red Ink by Montblanc, you know it is a very vibrant, fresh red. So here I am, one day before the most important day of my professional life, prepared to shake hands with the president. And my hands now look as if I had just completed some mass murder, all bloody red. I kid you not, folks, I thought I would die either of shame or because my wife would kill me for being so stupid. However, as it turns out, the Montblanc Season's Greetings is a great ink, but it's not really waterproof. I got to the ceremony with only the faintest hints of serial killer hands, and I got the job. Wow, that was a rollercoaster. And again, this is horrific, but Amit got the ink off. If Amit was left with the ink on their hands, this would have 100% gone in the Hall of Fame. I just love, why didn't he feel the need to keep smelling it? The traffic lights, you've got to keep the ink closed, Amit. Come on. You did it twice. Come on. You're tempting fate. So, Brad, are we in agreement that whilst we have some close, none of these are Hall of Fame horror story worthy?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I want to put Amit in, but I feel your commentary is correct in that this was somewhat self-inflicted, and it was fixed before the real damage was done.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It doesn't bother me too much in this case, right? Because if anything, I actually feel like, again, that makes it worse because you can blame yourself, and it makes you more frustrated. But if Amit would have gone to the meeting with the president with blood red ink all over their hands, 100%, like, top of the tree goes right in. I thought this story was like he was on his way to the meeting getting this ink on the content. So, you know, I would say you've now out there all heard these stories. If you think you have something worse than this, where should people send these messages, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hello at penaddict.com. Put something in the title, like horror story or whatever, so I see it, because my inbox is a tragedy right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is my challenge to the penaddict listeners. I want to see something in the Horror Hall of Fame before the end of this month, because I feel like we've got to induct someone before the spooky month is over.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This was fun. Y'all did a really good job. I love these stories. Love these stories. This is really great. This is awesome. I just keep scrolling back, looking at them, going, oh my gosh.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You did what? That was my favorite. Amits is my favorite story. I love the way that it was written. It was really, really fun.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I was worried about his car seat at first. Me too. I thought spilling blood on the car seat was going to be bad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, I had it in my hand, and then I had to, like, start accelerating, and I dropped the whole bottle of ink all over my front or something.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of The Pen Addict. If you want to find our show notes, go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 329. They'll be in your podcast app of choice as well. That's also where you can find information about our New York City and Toronto meetups at the end of October. We really hope that we can see some of you at one of these, or both, if you're a wild person like we are. There might be one. Yeah. Thanks so much to Harry's and Pen Chalet for their support of this show. You can find Brad online at penaddict.com. He is penaddict on Instagram. Dowdy is on Twitter and at twitch.tv slash penaddict. I am at imike, I-M-Y-K-E. Follow me on Instagram. I would really appreciate that. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

[[Category:Podcast Transcripts]]
[[Category:The Pen Addict Podcast Transcript]]