first scene

explaining to one person in particular in a group of 3 or 4

people about the features of a pen

i told him... "had been trying to buy a pen for the last few

years which always wrote when you used it"

"all the pens i had bought would need 'coaxing' into use when

they hadn't been used for an hour or two"

"it meant running the pen frantically over a part of the page to

warm it up"

"the 'must do something about this' moment came when i had

to fill in a form to get a reduced price on an item"

"as usual the pen needed warming up but there wasn't any

paper to hand to run the pen across"

"it wouldn't do to use the form and i stood there feeling, and

probably looking stupid, while trying to think of how to get

around it"

"determined to get a pen that done the job, i had spent £30

on one pen and a similar amount on another and was about to

spend even more on another"

"told the salesman what was what and he suggested a pen the

shop had in stock"

"bought the pen but wasn't over confident it would do what

was expected"

"later on in the day went on the internet to find a pen that

claimed it would always write"

"the pen i had bought in the shop earlier on in the day was a

toshiba and so went to their site first"

"2 or 3 searches at the web site and the pen i had  been

looking for over the last half dozen years came up on the

screen"

"it wrote upside down, on wet paper, in zero gravity and at

-20 degrees below freezing"

"the jam on the bread was the price... £12 for 10 pens with a

free retractable pencil-pen and 12 refils'

a lifetime of pens for just over a tenner" !

"not only that the pen can cut through a hair from someone's

head"

second scene

someone fetched a length of wire the width of a human hair

touched the wire with the end of the pen and the wire

separated into two

everybody was thoroughly impressed