I don’t carry a pen with me, I didn’t put it there but there it was. As I thought about it I had to wonder, is it “just” a pen or is it… aaaaa something else, read tracker, camera, microphone… I dispatched it into the trash can in the garage. Now I’m wondering, have I lost my mind? Do I dis/mistrust humans so bad that a pen hanging on my grocery bag make me think of something sinister?
@Mike164 Don’t know, but possibly whoever bagged your groceries probably brushed the bag on their chest while lifting up the bag and the pen got clipped onto the bag from his/her shirt pocket without the bagger noticing and you didn’t notice til you handled the bag. Looks like an ordinary pen. Just take it apart like any other pen just to make sure it’s not a tracking device of some kind. If any doubt, throw the pen away and out of range away from your place, away on a bad part of town.
Your a Conservative, Republican, who owns firearms, and speaks freely against the communist reign! I’m a little paranoid too!! We know they can’t be trusted!! They have knocked on to many doors already!!!
Just take it apart like any other pen just to make sure it’s not a tracking device of some kind.
Reverse engineer it, rework a new receiver in your home and send it back on your next trip to the grocer!
Tradecraft! Counterespionage!
We have to start playing the game against them.
The bagger is obviously working for someone! Gather as much intel as you can, encrypt the information place it on the thumb drive I left on the back of the mahogany bench at 1:45 pm
Take said pen to the police station and just drop it off!
or you should have taken it apart and looked at it! Check and verify because your hunch is there for a reason.
Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean everybody isn’t out to get me.
But really, not out of line at all to be concerned. I probably would have stuck it in the pen box. If I thought about it I’d have either put it in the trash or inspected the inside.
You have not reasoned this out from the original pen owner’s point of view. You are now under suspicion of petit larceny for taking away that grocery bagger’s pen in a way any common sneak thief would. Grocery store camera’s and video have you on record as the last person served before that pen went missing. I’d start shopping at a different grocery store if I were you.
Now I DO dis/mistrust humans so bad that a pen hanging on my grocery bag make me think of something sinister?
I should have cleaned my finger prints off the pen before the camera in my garage caught me placing it in the trash can…
I must admit, I do like mysteries. I’ve lost items, then be very puzzled about it, only to find them later. But other times, I do believe “victim of theft”.
Some people play practical jokes.
IDK, guess there is chance someone found that pen but decided to hook it on that bag which the bagger worker used unknowingly. Guess you could visit the store to ask who was working the bagging that day to ask, but they might not be able to find out “who dun it”.
Those bags come from another ware-house/factory full of workers. That’s not a cheap costing pen, it’s one of my favorites to use at work.
If any doubt, throw the pen away and out of range away from your place, away on a bad part of town. 
