Where in the Hell Do I Put This?

Yesterday I had an informal interview so, rather than the usual jeans and wrinkled shirt, I decided to go into work actually looking respectable. This included a dress shirt and dress pants. The thing about dress pants is, they are horrible for holding pens and pencils. Jeans, you throw a pen in there, no problem. It stays straight up and down and typically doesn't stab your leg just to amuse itself. In dress pants, on the other hand, pens always slide down to a weird angle so that everytime I sit down I get rewarded with a brand new hole in my leg.

So, being the adaptable guy that I am, I decided to put the pen in my shirt pocket. Of course this has drawbacks too. I mean really, once you start putting pens and pencils in your shirt pocket you may as well bring out the pocket protector and wrap your glasses with tape (or in my case BUY a pair of glasses and THEN wrap them with tape). But, I figured that just one writing utensil in my shirt pocket would be allowed...not too bad. I have to keep it somewhere after all.

As usual, leave it to friends to point out the error of my ways. Within 5 minutes of sitting down for a drink, the pen in the pocket was mocked. Fortunately I have come to terms with being "not cool." Next time I will just carry two pens. One for writing and one for stabbing anybody who mocks the pens in my pocket.