3 Pack All Weather Rite in the Rain Pen Refills Black Fine Point

I ordered these for my Gerber impromptu pen. The function flawlessly and seem to have a long life to them. The Impromptu is my every day pen and it's nice to have refills on board the work as advertised, write smoothly and with no little ink blobs from inferior refills. I will be ordering more long before these three run out.

I had never encountered a situation in the past when having an ink pen that would write perfectly well on rain-spattered paper or with the ink pen being held upside-down. That changed recently when I got out of my Audi Q5 SUV to assist another driver who made an ill-advised decision to try and drive her small Dodge sedan through high water during one of our recent rain storms here in New Orleans when several of the city's drainage pumps were not operating for several reasons that forced our idiot mayor to "accept the resignation of the CEO of the New Orleans Sewer and Water Board, effective immediately". (I'll get off my soapbox now, and get on with my review of the Rite in the Rain All-Weather Ink Pen Refills.)As I was returning home from a pharmacy where I had gone to pick up a telephone refill of a vital cardiac prescription medication (which I mistakenly thought I had more of on hand, but didn't, and only had that night's dose to take), as I was driving on a street that is on high ground, I thought about an intersecting street two blocks ahead that has a very low spot which typically has flooding issues when we have heavy rains (or the city's drainage pumps aren't working). As I approached that intersection, I slowed to see if the low spot had attracted any victims. What I saw was a car stopped, sitting at the lowest point of that water hazard with water already above the wheel wells and continuing to rise, I pulled to the side of the street, parked my vehicle, got out, locked my SUV's doors, put on my rain poncho as the rain started to fall again, and went to see if anyone was still in the car and needed assistance. When I approached the car, I could see a woman sitting in the small Dodge sedan, waving her arms frantically, with a panicked look on her face. I walked into the rising water, moved to her side of the car and shouted to her, asking if she could get out of her car. I could see her mouth moving, but couldn't hear what she was saying. I reached for the outside door handle to see if it would open, but it wouldn't budge. I reached under my poncho to my shirt pocket and pulled out my note pad and Tactical Self-Defense LED Flashlight, DNA Collector, Ball Point Ink Pen with a Rite in the Rain All-Weather Pen Refill and Emergency Glass Breaker combo tool that I have carried for several months.A while back, while browsing through Amazon.com looking at some of the Tactical products listed there, I saw the Rite in the Rain products and was intrigued to see if it really did what its reviewers said. Since I needed to put a new refill in my Tactical Self-Defense Combo Tool, I decided to order some of the Rite in the Rain ink refills, hoping they would fit properly in the ink pen in my combo tool. When they arrived, I opened the ink pen in my combo tool and slipped one of the refills into the ink pen. It fit perfectly! I wondered when I would have an opportunity to try it out in the rain. I didn't think its "trial by fire" would be this particular situation.I opened the ink pen and wrote on the notepad, "Can you open the door?" and held it next to the car window where the woman could read it. She read the message and shook her head and mouthed the word, "NO". I scratched out the word door, and wrote, "Window?" Again, she shook her head and mouthed the word, "NO". I tore that page out of my notepad, and wrote, "Power Windows and Door Locks?" The woman nodded her head and mouthed the word, "YES" and started waving her arms frantically again. Guessing the rising water had shorted out the car's power doors and windows, and the rain began falling a little harder, I tore that page out of my notepad and wrote, "STAY CALM. I WILL GET YOU OUT", and held it up for the woman to read. She seemed to settle down a little inside her car. I tore that page out of my notepad and stuck it on the outside of her car's window. I then wrote, "MOVE OVER INTO THE PASSENGER SEAT". She looked up at me with a questioning look in her eyes. I tore that page out and wrote, "MOVE OVER - PUT YOUR HANDS OVER YOUR FACE". The woman's facial expression suddenly changed, and she seemed to realize and understand what I was preparing to do. She climbed over into the passenger seat, turned her back toward me and put her hands in front of her face. I quickly pulled the ink pen end out of my Tactical Combo Tool, turned it around to expose the Glass Breaker end, and put my combo tool back together. Gripping my combo tool tightly in my fist, I slammed it into the center of the driver's side window. The window's safety glass shattered into dozens of small, crumbly pieces. I lifted the bottom of my rain poncho, wrapped it around my forearm, changed my grip on my Tactical Combo Tool so it pointed up my forearm, toward my elbow, and I began clearing out the pieces of shattered safety glass from the window frame. When I had the window frame pretty well cleaned out, stuck my head inside the car and said to the woman, "I've got the window open. I will brush some of these pieces of glass onto the floor.", which had started to show several wet spots. The woman said in a very soft voice, "I'll help you out from this side.", and she brushed away some of the safety glass crumbles as she climbed back into the driver's seat. I said to her, "Turn your back toward the window when you get over to this side of the car. I will reach inside the car, put my arms under your armpits, give you a backwards hug, then slowly and gently lift you up and help you get through the window." Fortunately, the woman was wearing a fabric raincoat that would help protect her from getting cut or scraped by an edge on a crumble of safety glass. Extracting the woman from her car went exactly how I had described it to her and the rain, thankfully, had stopped.. When I had the woman out of the car, I maintained the backwards hug I had used to get her through the window and held her up until we got to solid ground, then I put her down. She turned around to face me and threw her arms around my neck and hugged me like she would never let go, saying, "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for rescuing me." over and over in her soft voice. I said, "You are very welcome."After we both had caught our breath and relaxed a little, I said to the woman, "When you were inside your car, when I first got to your car, I could see your mouth moving, but couldn't hear anything you were saying." The woman said, "I was so scared. I didn't know how deep the water was, so I tried to drive very slowly through it. The water kept getting deeper and deeper, and I got more and more scared, until I finally stopped my car to try and back out of the water. Then the engine started to sputter and shut off entirely. When that happened I started to panic. I kept trying to start the engine, but it wouldn't start. Then everything just shut off. I tried to open the car door, but it was locked and wouldn't unlock. I tried to open the window, but nothing happened. At that point, I was so terrified, I tried to scream for help, but no sound would come out of my mouth. That's when I started waving my arms and screaming silently, trying to attract someone's attention. It seemed like hours passed without me being able to get anyone's attention. Then, like a rescuing angel, you appeared outside my car window. Praise to the Lord, you had your pen and notebook with you and the sense to write messages to communicate with me. My brother was a fireman. He died two years ago. When you arrived and began communicating with me with your notes, I started to remember what my brother had told me to do if I ever got stopped in deep water and couldn't get out of my car, and it was exactly what you you were saying to me with your notes. It was almost like my brother was standing outside my car, and I began to feel calmer and believed you were going to get me out."The rain began to fall again, very lightly. I said, "I don't think your car will be going anywhere for a while, and I don't think you will have to worry about anyone stealing it. I'm parked just around the corner. Let me take you home, or to a relative's house or a friend's house, so you can call your insurance company about your car." We walked to my SUV in the softly falling rain, I wrote the address the woman gave me on my notepad, which by now had soaked up a good bit of water, opened the passenger's door for her, came around and got in on the driver's side, and drove to the address the woman had given me. I parked in front of the house at that address, got out of my SUV and walked around to open the passenger's door for the woman. As she stepped out of my SUV, she turned toward me, put an arm around my neck, and gave me a kiss on the cheek. She said, "Thank you, again, for rescuing me. Would you like to come in and dry out?" I looked straight into her eyes and replied, "I appreciate your offer to come in and dry out, But there's something you probably don't know about rescuing angels. Their wings usually keep them pretty dry. Besides, you need to call your insurance company, right away, to get things rolling on your flooded car and get you rolling in a rental car, or whatever your insurance coverage provides. I need to get home with my prescription cardiac medication that caused me to be out of my home in the first place. And while I was getting you out of being trapped in your car, if I made you think of your fireman brother who passed away a couple of years ago, I would prefer keeping your memories of your brother exactly the way they are. Don't you prefer that, too?" She smiled at me, then started to turn and go inside, when she paused and said, "Thanks again, Bro. Take care, and have a good nigh t.", as she walked to her front door, unlocked and opened it, and stepped inside, closing the door behind her.I got back into my SUV, thought about what had transpired in the last 30 to 45 minutes, and said to myself, "Am I ever glad I decided to order those Rite in the Rain All Weather Ink Pen Refills to put in my Tactical Self-Defense LED Flashlight, DNA Collector, Ball Point Ink Pen with a Rite in the Rain All-Weather Pen Refill, and Emergency Glass Breaker Combo Tool. That Rite in the Rain Ink Pen Refill worked like a champ and did everything its listing information and customer reviews said it could do, and maybe a little more, as I removed the page from my notebook with the woman's home address written on it, carefully folded that notebook page in half, and slipped it into my wallet for safe keeping. "Sometimes even rescuing angels can fall",.I thought to myself with a little smile tugging at the corners of my mouth.

Simple refill for my Rite-in the-Rain pens. This pack should last me a while since they write a long time.

Perfect replacement

Work well

Good for writing anytime. Also in the rain when on a paper made for rain-resistance

These work perfect in my tactical pen. I love being able to write at all angles with no skipping. The rain part isn't something I use a lot but knowing it's possible is a plus

Great value for money. I really like the fact it comes with an additional piece so the cartridges could be utilized for pens that use Parker Style Refills.