A New Poll Asks If It’s Ok To Take The Pen After Paying, The Results Were Surprising
These days most people are writing less and less and the need for a good pen has lessened to the point that most people no longer carry them. There was a time when you took pride in your pen and perhaps it was a prized possession.
Maybe you had pens in your purse or pocket book and for men, maybe you had a pocket full and hopefully you used a trusty pocket protector. Now it’s not something we have to carry around. We do everything on our phones and we hardly write checks anymore.
Of course we are not yet a “pen less” society. We need them when signing the restaurant bill and you still need a pen to jot down notes at work or even if we are to do a crossword puzzle or the scrabble game in the newspaper. That of course is probably for people old enough to occasionally read a news paper.
So, if you don’t always carry a pen with you, that must mean you have to either beg, borrow or steal one.
A poll asks when it’s okay to take the pen
A lot of things have become unnecessary now that EVERYONE has a smartphone, but here’s one you don’t hear about much: Having a pen and paper in your hotel room.
A new poll asked people, “Is it unacceptable for someone to take home a pen from a hotel room they’ve stayed in?”
39% of people say it’s “always acceptable” to swipe the pen. And maybe that makes sense . . . they’re usually branded with the hotel’s name, so maybe most places consider it complimentary marketing.
32% of people say it “depends on the hotel,” and 18% of people consider it “always UNACCEPTABLE.”
Now, here’s where it gets interesting . . .
Another poll asked if it’s cool to take home the pen that a restaurant server gives you to sign the bill. And 8% of people said that it’s “always acceptable” to steal it from the check folder thing. (???)
24% said it “depends on the restaurant” and 52% consider it “always unacceptable.”
The people most likely to steal hotel pens are Midwestern, Gen X women . . . while those who are most likely to take the pen from the server are Gen Z men from the Northwest.