I can hardly even remember. I think I was just curious to write in a way that was a little classier than disposables. I’m a Blackwing pencil convert, and I decided over the years that if you’re going to enjoy doing something (or have to do it), you might as well do it right. The same way they get you to spend big bucks on a mattress, I suppose, but a $20-30 fountain pen has a much lower barrier of entry. It has its shortcomings, but I always come back to my first one, which was a Picasso pen…a 902, maybe? Its nib is a little fat for my tastes, and the cap slips off in my pocket, threatening my pants every day I take it out with me, but that same chubby nib flows over paper like silk. I’ve got other pens whose caps stay better, or whose nibs are finer, but I always end up using this one because at the end of the day, improved writing experience was why I went down this road in the first place.