Getting Your Pen Back

As I get older, I feel the need to pass on some of the accumulated wisdom of my years, so with this post I’m starting the Windypundit Life Lessons Department.

It’s too late to help poor Scott, but the secret to getting people to remember to give back a pen you’ve loaned them is to hand them the pen but keep the cap.  When they absentmindedly put the pen away, the need to find the cap usually nudges them into conscious thought, and then they remember it’s not their pen.

Of course, that might not help you if they recognize your $300 Montblanc Meisterstück Le Grand and decide to steal it.