SPD: Sad Pen Day

(Kimberly (she/her) took the express train down the fountain pen/stationery rabbit hole and doesn't want to be rescued. She can be found on Instagram @allthehobbies because there really are many, many hobbies!.) We’re all familiar with the acronym NPD for New Pen Day, or NID for New Ink Day, but have you heard of SPD (and no,I don’t mean Shimano Pedaling Dynamics for you cycling folks). I’m talking about the (hopefully) lesser known and used acronym for Sad Pen Day. While I hope none of us experience a SPD, it will inevitably happen at some point or another. Maybe it is a mild sadness, like when you get a pen but it has the wrong nib and you need to work with the vendor to get the nib exchanged. Or you ink up the pen for the first time and it writes fine but maybe not as well as you expected. Or you picked an ink that doesn’t quite work with the pen and it doesn’t feel right when you write with it. Or maybe it’s a bigger sadness when you get a scratch on the pen, or gasp, you drop the…