EGG ON FACE

IE: getting old:

Well I've been bitching that I don't have a working pen on my office desk only to find out in the middle of grabbing different ones i got my Microsoft pen to work,  was fine for the moment i needed. i tested it quickly and did the usual circles on plain paper and it worked in red ink, not what i needed for the official document but good in a pinch for the note i needed for certain data retainment. I wrote what i needed on junk paper and dropped the pen on the desk only to hear it click closed but I didn't care. I picked it back up after finding the official paper i needed to write the data on only to click it open and NOTHING!! yes friends in less than 5 seconds the pen had quit putting out red ink. upon closer inspection i noticed the pen head looked a bit odd and sure enough it was A STYLUS. I was a bit sleepy still and not fully aware thinking i had somehow picked up the wrong pen i closed it again and dropped it on the desk looking for the one that just wrote in red. I didn't find one. I picked up the only Microsoft labeled pen i could find and clicked it hoping it was the red one again, only to find this was a pencil, I had other pencils so this was not a good find when what i needed was a blue or black ink tool. It was at that moment i suspected something was odd as it was the ONLY MS logo pen i had found once again so I closed it and clicked and voila, once again a pencil. i closed it again, click click and once again it was a pencil. I repeated this too many times to tell without seeming more stupid than i am all ready showing.  I finally set it down, picked it up and clicked it again 2 times, SLOWLY, and i got. A PEN HEAD that printed in RED... now, i'm easily confused sometimes but this had bewildered me to the point of aggravation. yet all along i was impervious to the fact that there were four little words printed on the end of the pen at the click button. although round it had four precisely marked words on even spacing as follows: 0.5 / Red / Stylus / Black. In my haste when i picked up the pen over the years I've never noticed this before as my hand was always in the way while holding it.  so yeah, DUH, which ever word is facing up when you click it comes out the other end. I'd seen and owned pens like this before with multiple clickers but never in a single clicker case. In fact in my youth many times i was the cool guy at the sportsman inn pizza restaurant table writing on the back of the place mat (yeah remember those) with a tri color pen or pencil with a tri clicker. So now i feel the geezer this morning (like how i see my father at times lately) here a simple tool with something I've seen before but just not in that simple a configuration (rotate pen and click, how simple) and it got the best of me. Not unlike your parent or grand parent when you showed them a computer or a multifunction remote.