Mystery #2: Disappearing pens.

[Gawkman]

Once upon a time I told of the strange disappearances of single socks from a pair... which leads me to my next phenomenon:

Disappearing pens/pencils.

When I was back in school, I remember how many times I managed to lose pens. If I had 2 or 3 pens, they never last more than a couple of weeks before disappearing. When they first turned up missing, I always thought that it must have been lost in the depths of my backpack where I dare not tread, but later they would not be in the backpack, either... and this leads to my final conclusion:

Aliens are stealing our pens and/or pencils AND socks via subspace transport in an attempt to gradually drain the planet of it's resources, making us vulnerable to a planetary assault. WE MUST STOP THEM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! So watch your pens and socks carefully... for everyone you lose brings us all that much closer to DOOM.

[digital fan]

*GASP* NOoooo it cant be true!

[Porn Monkey]

Gah then my hypothesis is wrong.

I thought it was Alien ROBOTS. Ugh, I'm stupid.

[Dysfunctional1]

I think the only reason we lost socks was because there was like 7 people living here, and they always got mixed up and so on. So every time i couldn't make a pair, i'd throw out the one i have (or use it as a rag for the garage) and just go buy some more at park-n-swap, BAM!

As for the pen, mine are always disappearing, why? Because i somehow end up throwing them at someone, or someone takes them. Bastards.

[Shafty]

In my office, there's a certain type of pen that all the attorneys covet. One of the partners in the firm, though, is a klepto. He'll come into my office to take a phone call, pick up one of these pens if it's on my desk to take notes during the phone call. Then he leaves my office with my pen.

I finally got my office manager to buy me my own box of these pens, and I keep it in one of the locked drawers in my desk. That's how bad it is.

[Shan]

Heeheehee.....

I use to be notorious for stealing pens. When I worked as a hostess at a restaurant, all the servers would carry their pens on the side sticking out of their aprons. It was so easy just to take one or two as I was walking by, and they never noticed. pretty soon I had a collection of about 15 pens in my apron.....

.....when the servers started running out of pens, pretty soon they started borrowing them for me, because they knew I always had some. Then they'd complain about how someone was stealing all their pens.

Sometimes it was so obvious that I wanted to smack them all. HELLO!! All the servers are missing pens, and one of the hostesses has started a collection? What would you think.......??

[Dysfunctional1]

Originally posted by Shan
Heeheehee.....

I use to be notorious for stealing pens. When I worked as a hostess at a restaurant, all the servers would carry their pens on the side sticking out of their aprons. It was so easy just to take one or two as I was walking by, and they never noticed. pretty soon I had a collection of about 15 pens in my apron.....

.....when the servers started running out of pens, pretty soon they started borrowing them for me, because they knew I always had some. Then they'd complain about how someone was stealing all their pens.

Sometimes it was so obvious that I wanted to smack them all. HELLO!! All the servers are missing pens, and one of the hostesses has started a collection? What would you think.......??

Heh...I've worked with alot of people that don't have "common sense" none whatsoever.

[noogz]

Originally posted by Shan
All the servers are missing pens, and one of the hostesses has started a collection? What would you think.......??

Sounds like the aliens have somehow routed a subspace transport directly into the server's aprons, thereby stealing their pens. And this "hostess" must be an alien accomplice who is gathering up more pens for the servers to borrow, thereby enhancing the innocence of the act and to avoid any questions. All of this masks the malevolence of the evil aliens and their quest for our resources.

[Gawkman]

Originally posted by noogz
Sounds like the aliens have somehow routed a subspace transport directly into the server's aprons, thereby stealing their pens. And this "hostess" must be an alien accomplice who is gathering up more pens for the servers to borrow, thereby enhancing the innocence of the act and to avoid any questions. All of this masks the malevolence of the evil aliens and their quest for our resources.

SHAN!!! I KNEW you were an extra-terrestrial bent on the destruction of earth! Shame on you. Now give me back my missing socks.

[Shan]

Originally posted by Gawkman
SHAN!!! I KNEW you were an extra-terrestrial bent on the destruction of earth! Shame on you. Now give me back my missing socks.

NO!!