Where is all the Joy?
I must admit, I was hooked to Prison Break for a while. Though it ended badly, a few bits will always stick with me. One of the baddies of the series, Theodore Bagwell surely has his share of fans for both right and wrong reasons. There is one particular scene where he is trying to score a woman by telling her how no one enjoys a meal anymore. That how it's now a luxury to sit down with a bottle of wine, have a good conversation or some quiet time. Those initial few lines that I mentioned made a lot of sense the other day at a stationery store where I spotted lot of cheap ball pens and roller pens displayed prominently while the fountain pens were conveniently tucked away into some shelves. Since I had to hang around the store for a while, I initiated a conversation with the owner. Once done with the pleasantries, I eagerly popped up the question of why fountain pens were treated like third cousins. From what I remembered, teachers mandated them since ball pens and roller...