Why the need for more than one, is it just showing off - trying to look efficient?
If you have more than one then perhaps you could explain why because I can't figure it out.
Oh and how many do you keep there?
Slide-rule, black pen, red pen and a pencil here. All needed to do my job. I can't see a problem with it to be honest, after all isn't that what the top pockets on lab coats are for?
I have to admit, ex-LL..I scanned that too quickly and thought the thread was going to be about cannibalistic serial killers
I used to work in the Civil Service - their equivalent is the twinset-and-pearls brigade who wander round buildings with armfuls of blank A4 to make themselves look efficient and hardworking
I have a pen pocket in my work wear, as pens are like gold dust in my work place I know I will always have one. I am on the move much of the time and it comes in very handy"
My old Dad used to say that two or more pens in a top pocket was the mark of the perfect shmo.
Don't ask me, I don't know where it came from either, although I had the feeling that he thought it was an Americanism.
If he wanted to make a derogatory remark about an American, he'd refer to him as Joe Shmo from Idaho.
Political correctness wasn't the old man's long suit.
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Slide-rule, black pen, red pen and a pencil here. All needed to do my job. I can't see a problem with it to be honest, after all isn't that what the top pockets on lab coats are for?
I have to admit, ex-LL..I scanned that too quickly and thought the thread was going to be about cannibalistic serial killers
I used to work in the Civil Service - their equivalent is the twinset-and-pearls brigade who wander round buildings with armfuls of blank A4 to make themselves look efficient and hardworking
If you bring your best pens to work NEVER lend them out, you might not get them back. I speak from experience.
Don't ask me, I don't know where it came from either, although I had the feeling that he thought it was an Americanism.
If he wanted to make a derogatory remark about an American, he'd refer to him as Joe Shmo from Idaho.
Political correctness wasn't the old man's long suit.