I've had a Fisher Space Pen on my "someday" list for a while, but more in a "that's cool" way than an "I MUST have it" way. But this week, I lucked into a free one. I needed a pen at the Habitat for Humanity rummage sale last week, and was loaned a neat little pen by a fellow Library volunteer. I complimented the pen, and found out it was a Bullet model Space Pen, which is shorter. Turns out, he had multiple Space Pens that he'd received as gifts, and offered me one. Lovely!
So my new Space Pen is a metallic blue Bullet pen, with a tiny nick, and no clip. It had an annoying development, because the refill was loose in the barrel and it retracted a bit every time I tried to write with it. Google revealed something about spacers and springs, but I went with the lower-tech solution of putting a tiny bit of balled-up paper in the stylus end of the barrel. Problem solved.
And now I have the perfect pen to carry in my purse, because the cap won't come off, and since it's not a click pen, it won't accidentally write all over the inside of my purse.
