The green revolution

[franceslievens]

In need of school supplies I went to Club today. Half of the city population under twelve had the same idea, because the small shop was crowded with mothers and children selecting the perfect pencils and pens. Amidst this crowd I was looking for the one item that I still needed: a new green pen. I prefer to mark with a green pen instead of a red one, because it feels so much friendlier, especially when you're checking out the pupil's work in their books, and not something you mark for grades. Guess what: Club doesn't sell green pens. They've got lots of different pens, which all come in three basic colours: blue, black and red. Green isn't to be found. Really, Club is working against the green revolution. Melting of the ice-cap? All their fault.

Comments

[lijability.livejournal.com]

Green is Chani's and my color!

But, Green Pen, at:
http://www.greenpen.ca/en/index.html
Has environmentally green pens in black, red, blue and green ink! And the pen plastic is made from corn, so you're helping to support me and my farm!! (I'm not sure but it might be the ink is made from soybeans, I know some newsprint inks are in America).

[lijability.livejournal.com]

Whoops.... I was wrong. Only blue ink.... sorry.

We have large office supply stores or even WalMart here where you can usually get pens in either of those four colors though.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a bigger office supply store close by where I usually go, but I just needed a pen and some other small stuff. I just thought it pretty weird that they never stocked the green version of whatever pen they got: only black, blue and red.