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I’ve used a steel nib on a quill, and you’re right - that skritch skritch skritch is very satisfying.
I still agree with the person you’re replying too. You’re the one with the bad attitude here, not the sandal wearers, IMO. They are doing something that hurts no one and has no affect on you, and you’re judgmental and hostile and rude - about them, if not to them.
Ask the guy who was there - '40s and '50s.Cool from the little boy’s POV, don’tchaknow?
Dan
Actually, before about 1960, the grocery guy would hit the neighborhood twice a week or so, open the back of his big box truck, and sell produce. Housewives in my neighborhood liked this because not everyone had an automobile. Yet.
Dan
Another fountain pen user here. Because the act of writing on paper is a distinct pleasure if you just slow down enough to enjoy it. My favorite pen is from about 1920. From about 1910 to 1960 was the golden age. They are often very beautiful objects as well.
“Tape”? We had to make do with a wire recorder!
Dan
Real quills are better. Nothing like a nice goose feather you’ve cut yourself.
Poser. I use a stylus on a wet clay tablet. In cuneiform.
Speaking of goose feather baddassery (which appears to have vanished from your post), I enjoy the feel of soft goose-feather toilet tissue. But, as an animal lover, I don’t cut the feathers off the poor geese before using it.
How positively Rabelaisian of you!
I’ve used fountain pens when younger. I cut my teeth drafting with rapidograph pens. Koh-I-Noor mostly. We where constantly looking for the best ink that would not clog a 0000 nib. Did a LOT of lettering with a scribe set. K&E Think. Tiny, tiny text on maps.
Before that, I hand painted maps. Oil on linen. They where VERY $$$$. You where doing good if you could get 25 square inches done in an 8 hour period. The brush was tiny, and the the map very complex. Now, we just do it in GIS and send them to the plotter.
I still sometimes dress up to fly. It has got me bumped up to first class several times.
Best thing I ever got in a cereal box was computer CDs for games of Jeopardy! and Scrabble. That’s still electronic, of course.
Colby cheese was ubiquitous in Canada then suddenly mostly disappeared twenty years ago (apart from very small scale artisan made). Why? No idea. Still everywhere in the US.
Pick up games of everything.
Grainy mustard.
Tahiti Treat.
Scratch doughnut stores.
Driving caps and hats in general.
Free outdoor public movie screenings, and festivals, and drive-ins.
Sandwiches, where butter added by default.
Color (with a fine-nib pen) me officially dazzled. 
As I read to the words “fresh ink”, I was sure the next bit would be “spreading from the pocket of your white shirt”.
Dan
Nah, that’s why all the nerdy cool guys wear plastic pocket protectors.
Guy’s a real nerd, if his ballpoints are leakin’ on him! Wouldn’t trust him to hold a baby…
Dan
Are crossword puzzles old fashioned? I only remember them from the Penny Dell books when I was a kid. I know they are still around, but have they fallen out of favor? Or have they only ever been something mostly old people do?
I found an app that got me into this Cryptic Crossword game… My goodness are cryptic crosswords fun. I enjoyed the tutorial app so much, I went and ordered an actual paper book of them so I can take them to bed with me. I even bought some rainbow pencils. It’s a very inexpensive hobby, so you can splurge on the pencils.
It may make me desperately uncool, but then, I always was.
I love Variety Puzzle Books! Cryptograms, anagram magic square, alphabet soup, letterboxes.
I do the newspaper crossword puzzle every single day.