Vineyard Fills Fountain Pens with Wine

I also remember having to bring a piece of chalk to absorb spilled ink. Man, what a mess!

Interesting. I've been wondering how teaching children cursive script with a fountain pen versus a pencil would result. I'm guessing the pens didn't use cartridges. I used to use cheap ones (made by Pilot, I think) when I was in middle/high school and those did leak everywhere.
I hadn't had one in years and then randomly found a cheap one (made by Zebra) at the drug store. It's...ok, skips a lot, sometimes doesn't write, and is too fine a point for my liking. What can you expect for less than $5?
Since that rekindled my interest in them I finally bought myself a relatively inexpensive Parker pen with a medium point and I love the thing.

I learned to write on fountain pens - for whatever reason, my grade school teacher thought that it would be good to teach kids who could barely write "the art of penmanship." Needless to say, I ruined quite a few school uniforms (got ink all over them) and my handwriting is now atrocious :)

That's very clever! Thanks Tenley!