People do things after 9PM?
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I was just as shocked as you are. The scary part is theyāre all functioning adults with jobs, not college kids whose first class is at noon. Iāll be the baby of the band if I get in, theyāre mostly in their late 30ās/early 40ās and Iām 27 
I was originally going to ask this in the women and men thread, but after contracting stigmata upon opening it, I figured this would be better.
Whenever my wife uses a pen, she leaves it in the āusedā state. If itās a capped pen, the cap is left off. If itās a click pen, itās clicked open. It means, whenever I need to use a pen in my house, there is a better than average chance that it is dead.
At first, I thought it was just a quirk of my wifeās, but the other day I broke into my kidās classroom to drop off some requested school supplies. I wanted to leave the teacher a note about who the supplies were from. I located some sticky notes, went to grab a pen from her pen holder, and every single one of them was uncapped or clicked open and dead.
So now I wonder: is this a āwoman thingā that I am unaware of?
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Canāt say itās a āwomanā thing, but my wife does this as wellā¦
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n=3 makes this a study and the result now a scientific fact.
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I leave the pen in the spiral of my training log uncapped. This was an interesting way to find out Iām actually a woman.
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In todayās day and age, you can be whatever you want to be as long as you believe super hard that you are
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Not that I am aware of. I keep my pens capped/ clicked for fear of ink bleeding out and making a mess that is almost impossible to clean.
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I do similar. I refuse to use the company-provided capped pens because caps get lost, so instead buy my own clicky tops because lost caps and ink leaks piss me off so much
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Leaving the cap off the pen is nearly as bad as putting the toilet paper roll on the wrong way. This is why we canāt have nice things.
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Depends. If Iām planning to use it again, I leave it open, but if I put it in the holder, itās capped or clicked. So my work pen is left on my desk with the cap on the top until after Iāve used it to write the last appointment card, then closed and put away in the holder with the cards.
My mechanical pencil, which I use for my planner, is left on the desk with the lead exposed. At the end of the day I place it on my message pad, square any corners that need squaring, and go.
Iām a little less retentive at home, but I think generally close pens before putting them in the junk drawer, where they live.
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Had this argument in my house for years the Mrs always put it the wrong way for the reason that a spider could hide under it with roll face the right way (Iām just assuming since you bought it up you know the right way). I spent years mocking her and turning it round, one day I actually found a spider under the flap, made me laugh, didnāt stop me putting them the right way though!
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Now that I think of it, all the pens in my work backpack are clicked/capped. Not sure where that leaves me now.
Pen-der fluid.
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@T3hPwnisher I gots to know -that was a true story about your dad?
Yeah. But in fairness, I do imagine he walked out of the room at that point because he was tired of me always being a smart ass, haha.
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Self-awareness is a good thing. 
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You can only imagine how awful a kid I was with a brain/mouth like mine, haha.
Iām afraid to say that this is more a case of putting the cap back on is a @T3hPwnisher thingā¦