Cheap Theory
Biro pens, eh? There is, undoubtedly, a great and truly disturbing cover-up going on all over the world (or so you might think): you know what I am on about—this is the great disappearing biro pen conspiracy! Notice how no other pens go missing–do you? Well, that only proves my point. So what is going on?
To test my conspiracy theory I bought a brand-new pack of biro pens and kept them on the table, then allowed my family access to them. I didn’t a) tell them of my plan to monitor the pens whereabouts or b) let on any signs or signals or give off any body-language to give myself away. Sure enough, after three days ALL THE PENS HAD VANISHED. I searched for them but they were gone. And when I say searched I mean searched. Not your typical man-looking-for-something search either. I turned the entire house upside down in my quest, and I found precisely nothing for my efforts.
I should point out that there is no happy ending to this sad story. I never did locate the pens, but the question still remains: why do they go missing so much?
Here is what I have come up with: I realized the other day that it’s always the cheap pens that go missing, and It made me put my thinking hat on in a very serious and concerned manner. So, I analyzed a pen and found it to be cheap, nasty and altogether not something I was particularly bothered about. And alas I stumbled across a formula and felt probably like Einstein had with his relativity epiphany. My conclusion is this: by making these pens cheap and nasty we don’t care to look after them. This of course means that we are careless with them, and there you have it, the riddle solved!
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