No, not what you people who are tipsy or needing to clean your glasses think.
What PEN do you like to use?
Do you like felt tips?
Ball points?
Fountain pens?
Blue ink or black ink or other?
Do you always carry a pen with you?
So, to answer the question - “My pen is…”
Bic medium point, blue ink. Also, there’s another pen I discovered recently but I forget the name…it’s bigger around and clear with some fancy-schmancy name. Once in high school I had a pen that said “John Hancock” on it. Best pen ever! It was big and fat and satisfying to hold, and when writing it made the paper feel padded somehow. Like writing on a cloud, but without the pesky moisture.
But never, never Paper Mate ballpoints. Those things get ink all over my fingers.
Slim with a needle point. Usually it’s a Pilot Precise V5 with extra fine tip since that’s easily available. I can’t stand to write with anything else.
Pilot G2 Fine Point, Gel Ink Roller Ball Pens, one black and one red
bright yellow and pink and says “Big Boyz Bail Bonds” on it.
I have more different pens than I have different outfits. Which one I use depends on the writing surface. I prefer fine line, black ink. I’ve been enjoying some gel pens lately. At home I use a metal barreled Jotter that’s 30 or so years old and it’s unparalleled for heft. It never leaves the house. I would be bereft if I lost it.
I have pens as a giveaway for my business. I spent more per pen than the folks at Big Boyz and got the best quality one I could afford. I’ve had people remark about how well they write. I always have some on or near me.
I was half joking about the bail bonds pens but also wasn’t. Here’s their company car. Two or three times a year they send folks out to all the businesses in the area and leave cups filled with pens. I’ve tried to turn them down, but hey, free pens. My kid uses them at school. I put them in Christmas stockings. They’re perfectly okay pens, but nothing glorious. I use 'em for things like grocery lists. If you dine out in Baltimore (City or County) and pay with a card the odds are good you will sign your slip with a Big Boyz pen.
Pilot G2 Pro, preferably with the Q7 cartridge, but I can’t find them any more so it’s got the standard G2 cartridge, black, fine point. The best everyday pen made, IMHO.
We have had pen threads before - I de-lurked several years ago specifically to participate in a pen thread.
Ball-point, blue ink. That way I can tell which document I signed is the original and which are the copies.
I have a Schaffer fountain pen that’s my fav - green ink, medium nib.
I love the way the Fisher Space Pen writes, but I hate the way their casings feel so cheap. But I use that most of all.
Some no-name thickish ballpoint that was on sale — I think — at Staples last year. It’s easy to hold and easy to write with and should last for years if I don’t lose it because the refill tube has a wide diameter.
Besides, ballpoints with triangular deep blue barrels and plastic chrome from top to bottom and that unscrew at the bottom like this one tell the world that it and me exude class, that I’m to be reckoned with.
Black ink, superfine point, ballpoint. Brand non-specific.
However, I recently discovered the “uni-ball SIGNO 0.18 gel pen” from a Japanese supplier. I hope I can find some more (maybe with red ink!) stateside.
It’s verrrrrrrrrrrrrry nice.
And YOU BET I CARRY A PEN AT ALL TIMES! (maybe not the “nice” ones 
My ex, who was a card-carrying Journalism School Graduate, always had to borrow one from me. :smack:
Now, paper or *something *to write on may be another story …
Usually Schmidt ballpoint cartridges in a Scriturra case. Fine point, blue. Definitely Schmidt cartridge ballpoint though. writes really nice. Occasionally a fountain pen for signing.
My pen is a Pilot G2 as well. I like the 07 fine point.
I like medium ball point pens and I really prefer blue ink to black. I have a cute little mini green ink pen on my keychain, it’s one of those Pentel RSVP pens.
Zebra F-402 retractable ballpoint. Black ink, fine point. I prefer it for my drawing.
I stash the black and blue ones away for general stuff and use all the other colors for grading papers and whatnot. They feel great, the colors are really vibrant, and my students really get a kick out of how ‘old’ they look.
I love this. I would like to sneak one into my husband’s work kit :D.
I recently picked up some PaperMate Inkjoy pens during the school supplies bonanza at Target. I think they’re gel pens, fine point, black. I like them quite a bit. Nice clean line, no globs or skips. I usually prefer fine-point ballpoints, blue or black, but it’s getting harder to find them.
I have some old Sheaffer fine point cartridge pens, made before Bic bought the company. I generally use either purple or blueblack ink in them, but I have to buy the purple ink cartridges online, as they are only sold in shops as part of an assorted colors package. I use the blueblack ink for just about everything, and save the purple ink for some very personal writings. The Sheaffer pens stay at home.
In my purse, I have some ballpoint pens. Some are single colors, some are multi colors. I have one pen that has either 9 or 10 colors in it. I also have two pens that have four colors in them, one is the regular blue/black/green/red assortment and the other is a turquoise/purple/hot pink/lime green assortment. I have gold and silver pens, as well. If I can get fine point, then I do, but most only seem to come in medium points. Oh, and I have a few fine point blue pens for more mundane tasks like signing documents. There is an unreasonable prejudice against legal documents signed in purple ink, I don’t know why. 
The pens that I carry in my purse and keep at my desk at home are usually Zebra F-301. I discovered these years ago in sales when I had to hand-write receipts in triplicate. My desk at home is in my craft studio, where there are a ton of felt tip and calligraphy pens too.
At work, I tend to use mostly what the company supplies, Pilot G-2, .07. I keep both the blue and black ones there for different things.
