The ink was permanent. P-e-r-m-a-n-e-n-t.
An errant Sharpie seemed like the perfect tool for my kid’s class project (because why on earth would you want to use a regular marker or highlighter when you can use ink that will NEVER COME OUT?). I should qualify that it seemed like the perfect tool to them because mama didn’t raise no fool and there was no way I’d put a permanent marker in my kid’s hand, upper elementary age or not.
Sheesh, kid, use a marker.
But no. It was Sharpie. Which made for a striking class project but also left a big (okay, a two inch) black line on my office desk. A big fat black line of marker that would be there forever and ever amen.
I guess I should mention the office desk was the first piece of truly “nice” furniture BrightSide and I bought. It was, you know, a desk grown ups would own. I might have been overly invested in the concept, though, seeing as I may have lost a teeny tiny bit of my sh*t when I saw the Sharpie mark.
To my credit, though, I did apologize later for overreacting.
Yet there was still a part of me thinking, “It had to be permanent ink?! Really??”
Linda’s Stream of Consciousness prompt is my Saturday writing treat. This week’s prompt is “ink.”
The mark gives your desk character 😉
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one of a kind 🙂
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Yeah, I remember the feeling. Mine was glue, the kind that will never ever ever come off.
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Ugh. Superglue!!
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Hard to stay mad, isn’t it?
I’ve had reasonably good luck removing Sharpie marks with alcohol. Albeit not big old lines of marker, but…
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You know, I thought about the alcohol thing but figured it would strip the finish…by now I’m used to it anyway. 😉
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Most modern finishes can withstand alcohol. Older (shellac-based) cannot. You can test on inconspicuous spot. You know, where they didn’t use the Sharpie…(sorry)
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😂
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