I have a similar “origin story” with the Precise V5. I remember how so much better it was than the ballpoints I had used before. Still use it today.

That being said, I miss the old color scheme of these pens. In my day, the V7s were vividly color matched to the ink, whereas the V5s were a lighter shade of the same hue. The black V5 had a gray body, the blue one had a sky-blue body.

This reinforced my opinion of V7 users as babies with their crayons, while us V5 users were sophisticated and elegant.

My math homework somehow seemed more exacting because of that spindly little nub laser-focused on the work at hand.