I had to use a fountain pen in elementary and middle school in Austria and hate-hate-hated them. Switched to ballpoint pens in high school and finally got rid o

I had to use a fountain pen in elementary and middle school in Austria and hate-hate-hated them. Switched to ballpoint pens in high school and finally got rid of the constantly ink stained fingers and dried up and bent tips. It's also when I switched back from writing cursive to printed letters. I later retried using a fountain pen in university under the assumption that perhaps I've used too much force or I was using low-quality pens, but the result was still the same, minus the bent tip perhaps. Good riddance!