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We used fountain pens at school back in the day. There was no sport to bang others’ pens into the desk (although there’s no shortage of other stupid sports like
by oefrha 3y ago
We used fountain pens at school back in the day. There was no sport to bang others’ pens into the desk (although there’s no shortage of other stupid sports like crotch grabbing or anus poking), and no one drizzled everyone with ink, ever. I don’t recall any ruined shirt but maybe it happened at some point. Your whole experience sounds very foreign and may not be representative.
- graemep 3y agoJust what sort of school did either of you go to and when? It sounds like something from a biography from someone who went to school a 100 year ago.
- ramenbytes 3y agoThe future is here, just not evenly distributed.
- seszett 3y agoI have the same experience, just in some rural school in France (ZEP, meaning supposedly with more "difficult" population than average) in the 90s. I still like fountain pens but I almost never write by hand anymore. Most of my classmates seem to have stopped with them as soon as they were allowed to though, which I never understood.
- madaxe_again 3y agoYou must have schooled with some remarkably mature children - in my experience if you give a 7 year old something that can be used for hijinks, it will be used for hijinks. But either way, they were just hideous to use, and I can’t even say how many essays I had to rewrite because the pen would spontaneously decide to dribble all over the page. It’s also left me with appalling penmanship, as it’s not like anybody ever taught us to write with fountain pens, as it was expected that you would Just Know, and if you didn’t, a few rounds of detention copying out the school rulebook would ensure you did.