Many moons ago one of the supervisors in the lab I was working in wore
     lab coats that seemed to suck in all the pens and pencils in her
     immediate area.  Whenever she finished one job and moved off to
     another she would absent mindedly pick up writing implements and put
     them in her pocket.We would usually retrieve them when she went on a
     break.  I wonder if this is related to similar behavior observed in TV
     (That's television, not transvestite, I hasten to add) news anchors
     whereby they shuffle their papers at the end of a transmission.




Well , I was only responding to the fact that blocks have a strange
attraction to lab coat pockets... it's the first place I look for missing
ANYTHING!  *G*