[Father Dearest]: Trying to explain the difference between a colored pen set and a calligraphy pen set took literally 45 min.

Me: You know calligraphy?
Dad: Ya, it's like fancy writin
Me: Okay so it's for the fancy writing.
Dad: But it's a colored marker why are you writing with a colored marker

Dad: It's a bit childish don't you think?
Me: It looks pretty neat with practice.
Dad: Okay but why not a sketchbook if there's drawing anyway?
Me: Because it's not for drawing it's for writing
Dad: You're not making any sense, dear

AAAA AND REPEAT AD NAUSEAM

This was in discussion for an Xmas gift for Scott's wife, Jenny

And my dad was trying to convince me that she was too adult for colored pens lol help I'm losing my mind

Eventually we agreed to disagree and he helped me buy the calligraphy pen set I was aiming to get her but sheesh

"too adult for colored pens" has this man seen the price of copic markers those ain't for kids chief V:

or even just seen the state of the adult coloring market? that is in

And that's putting aside calligraphy, which has been a thing adults do in the west for the past, oh, checks notes since the Roman Empire. V:

humans like pretty things, it's not 'childish' unless you let it be

Lol anything that is "in" is usually something he is not very aware of

He has a very defined set of rules of what is childish for hobbies and not, I don't think he means it as an insult, but more just like a personality quirk

Hard to explain, but he isn't intentionally being malicious just... lol unaware...

Nah, I get that... it's good you were there to convince him, even if he didn't believe you