I was at a Medical Congress in Prague three years ago manning the internet stations my company had set up in our exhibit area. We had big jars of freebie pens with our company logo on them sitting all around the exhibit area. We'd watch as the Russian doctors invariably would open their briefcases and empty entire jars of these cheap freebie pens into them. One time just for the hell of it I grabbed a jar of pens and went over to one of them who was busily filling his briefcase and held out the jar to him and said in english, "here you missed this one" and he grabbed the jar out of my hand and emptied it into his briefcase. It was comical but I felt sorry for them that free pens meant that much to them!