Parker Writefine: The Tipectomy Was Canceled

Since a couple of my Writefines are missing the top knurled section, I put "donor Writefine" on my short list of parts to hunt for in Chicago so I could do a "tipectomy" or two.

I was wandering around the room a bit on Sunday when I passed by a table on which the dealer had a quart bag full o' stuff.  "Ten bucks," he said.  I don't know whether he was that sick of looking at this stuff or whether he was returning a favor for a deal I'd given him earlier in the day, but it didn't matter to me:  I'm like a crack whore when someone dangles a dime bag in front of me like that.  I didn't even know what was inside the bag - I bought it. 

(Pause:  no, I don't do drugs and I never have.  That was an analogy.)

Of course, I'm not the only one at the show that's like that.  After I'd taken out of it all the things I wanted, I sold what was left of the bag - for ten bucks.  To another crack whore like me.

(Pause:  that's another analogy.  Don't take me so seriously!)

Anyway, one of the items that I found appeared to check "donor Writefine" off of my list . .

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