re: Is owning a nice pen a sign of being pretentious?

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try to use the same style pen when I sign documents because it’s easy to see that the signature is actually mine.

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What line of work are you in where people frequently try to forge your signature?

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have several nice pens. They’ve all been gifts.

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Exactly. I don't know if people buy nice pens on their own. I gave a couple of girls who just graduated from LSU a purple pen with their name and graduation year engraved on it as graduation gifts. I don't know the brand, but the pens cost about $35 each. I got a similar gift when I graduated HS years ago and still have it. I think it's a cool gift.

Nothing wrong with being a little pretentious.

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It’s not like you’re signing executive orders

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Maybe I am actually.

I don't think having a nice pen is pretentious. I don't buy them anymore. I lost (usually left in courtrooms or offices) a number of Mont Blanc and Waterman pens.

The guy who really impressed me was a court reporter I knew in the late 70s early 80s. He was a court reporter at the Nuremberg trials. When he sat down to serve as a court reporter at a deposition he would take out a bottle of blue ink and 4-5 beautiful (and very expensive) fountain pens - not the ones with cartridges, but the ones that sucked up ink - and report the deposition in shorthand on a steno pad. He was a genius as a reporter.

Yep. I was pretty messy with those things. Good to see you, Trav

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I have several nice pens. They’ve all been gifts.

I don’t think it’s pretentious at all.

It would be pretentious to break out an ink bottle and fountain pen and write in calligraphy.

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Very clever and very funny.

I have a Pelikan for writing thank you notes and signing documents. Everything else is done with a G2.

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pretentious

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