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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Beef Story #141: Beefy Refills

Author: generic


So I found this pretty sweet "titanium tactical pen" on the 'bay. It was displayed in all the pictures as very high quality and in addition to writing which all pens should really accomplish fairly well, it had pictures of some dude using the back of the pen to bust through a car's glass window. Handy!
I bid for it and won, and soon it was in my possession. Now, the seller had been quite clear that it would ship with NO refill in it, but included a handy link to the correct fitting refill from Parker. So I clicked on that link and found that I could choose from all kinds of fancy Java menus to peruse any of about 15 different types of pen refills in all kinds of sizes and stuff. I ordered some standard rollerball refills (which fortunately do fit in another pen I own). Needless to say, when the refill arrived I slipped it in my awesome titanium pen and it rattled around and back and forth like dice in the Yahtzee cup. So I went back and messaged the seller to explain that I was having trouble finding the right refill and he of course responded very promptly with another link to multiple items in the Parker pen line. Finally I bought a couple more and by process of elimination I finally have a pen that not only breaks windows, but writes on paper. Also I have plenty of refills for other pens lying around...thanks Chinese Titanium Tactical Ebay Vendor Man!

VERDICT: ON A SCALE FROM 1 TO 57 WHERE 1 IS BEEFY, 57 IS PRETTY BEEFY, AND 23 IS VERY BEEFY, THIS RATES AS A 34.