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When your pen runs out mid-sentence.
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When your hand gets covered in pen ink due to accidental smudging.
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When someone returns your favourite pen like this:
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And you're pretty much forced to throw the pen away because it's absolutely no use to you now.
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When the lead in your pencil continues to break, no matter how much you sharpen it.
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Or sharpens in the most annoying way.
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When the page rips while you try to erase something.
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When all the signs point to a pen being red, but the ink is black.
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Or the ink decides to revolt altogether.
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When your highlighter is tainted by a black pen.
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Or smudges the ink you thought was dry.
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When the perforated edges of your notebook don't seem to make things any easier.
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And your wire-bound notebook no longer wants to do its job.
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When the packaging doesn't match the beauty inside.
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When you innocently try to take the sticker off a journal and manage to ruin the entire thing.
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When you're handed something stapled like this:
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When the ink runs through to the other side of the page.
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When you accidentally bend your notebook.
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Or accidentally spill water over it and ruin all your hard work.
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When wide-ruled paper is too big for your handwriting.
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When your eraser splits in half.
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Or breaks clean off the pencil.
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When people ruin the sanctity of highlighters by highlighting like this:
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When you love your fountain pen, but it doesn't love you back.
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When neither stapler nor hole punch can save a piece of paper.
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And when you decide to take notes in pencil and they somehow end up looking like this:
