A Christmas sheeple story

The recipient seemed excited and pleased, I'd use that as an opening to share more skills and knowledge. Most of the sheeple are just handicapped by a lack of knowledge and have not had mnuch opportunity to learn to use knives or enjoy the outdoors.
 
Hmm. I gave the ladies on my team each SAK Classics, and no wounding were reported. Maybe it was the size of the knife?


No... that's not really a good excuse....

Ok, I got nothin...
 
One of the first good cuts I gave myself with a knife was from a SAK. It was my brother's brand spankin new Champion. Closed that sucker right on my finger. It went straight to the bone like a laser. That was also the first time I chose not to go to the hospital with a stitches worthy cut.
 
First rule of philanthropy: no good deed shall go unpunished :D

Consider that you gave him a *tool.* Using tools seems so elemental to most of the folk here. I sold auto parts and repaired cars for 25+ years and I repair computers now. I have found that vast section of our fellow citizens are ignorant in the use of tools. Add the emotional content of a KNIFE and it all gets mired. I would much rather that you chased me around the office with an SAK rather than a lil' ol' innocent baseball bat :)


It was good of you to think of him and it is very hard to gauge how others may handle new tools. He may surprise you with his new skills in a couple weeks and just needs a little quiet time to scope out the new knife. I am certain he appreciates that you thought of him.
 
Sounds to me like he`d have more fun with a large(easier to handle, remember the pencils in first grade) fixed bade.
 
A friend in Brazil asked to see my Leatherman Wave. She proceeded to open the serrated blade and I said "Be careful, that's really sharp." It was no sooner out of my mouth than she glanced at me, nodded in acknowledgment, and deftly ran her finger right down the blade slicing it nearly to the bone. My only reply anymore is "What do you need cut?" Mac
 
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A friend in Brazil asked to see my Leatherman Wave. She proceeded to open the serrated blade and I said "Be careful, that's really sharp." It was no sooner out of my mouth than she glanced at me, nodded in acknowledgment, and deftly ran her finger right down the blade slicing it nearly to the bone. My only reply anymore is "What do you need cut?" Mac
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OUCH! OUCH! OUCH! I don't know what people think about. I'm trying to be more descriptive of late--- "that is RAZOR sharp."

One of the most common cuts they see at the ER on Saturday mornings is cuts across the palm of the hand, from people slicing bagels in their hand. They just haven't been trained to use tools-- always cut away, etc.

I had a guy hand me a custom Damascus knife and he cautioned me on the sharpness. He just about had kittens when I tested the edge on my thumbnail-- not that I was going to get fingerprints on the blade or otherwise damage it, but that I was going to cut myself. He relaxed once he saw my care. It *was* hair poppin' sharp too :)
 
I loved your Christmas story. :) I just wish it had turned out differently....

Please, don't give up on the Christmas presents OR the knife initiations.

Happy Hannukah! Happy New Year!

Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
Like Mr. Benyamin said, maybe you should've gotten him a book. Perhaps a book about knives...let him graduate to that SAK next year. :D

Or, if he had trouble getting the tools opened and closed, and you needed a small knife, why not the Spyderco Ladybug3? It's hard not to realize what to do with a SpyderHole and a locback. Probably the most sheeple-friendly folder every available, in VG-10.

Anyways, it was a beautiful thing for you to do, and I commend you for it---hopefully all the sheeple learned a lesson. Under your mentorship, their might be hope to add a few more to the number of knifenuts in the world...

Good luck, and merry (belated) Christmas, happy Hannukah, and a wonderful new year to all!
 
Never give sheeple gifts that they can cut themselves with. Give them things that will either rot their teeth or rot their minds. That's all they can understand.

That said, my wife and I gave her father a Vic Spirit for Christmas. He loves it!
 
Oh yea,another thing is they always refer to it as a weapon and nothing else,no matter what type of knife it is...WTF??!!
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Exactly. In my post I forgot to mention that another coworker, on seeing that the guy had been given the SAK, immediately said "hey, now you can go round mugging people!" and started making stabbing motions in the air with his hand.

The other weird thing is that its been a week since our Kris Kringle giving/opening, but the guy still hasn't taken his knife home. Its just sitting on top of its box on his desk (and he's not using it in the office either). I have a feeling this guy is either afraid that his parents will disapprove of it (because of his disability he's fairly dependent on them and still lives at home), or he's scared to carry the thing in public to get it home (we have strict knife laws here in Australia, though they don't preclude taking your SAK home).

I know it was wishful thinking that the guy would man up a bit just by giving him a SAK, but I really didn't anticipate the torrent of sheeple stupidity that I managed to unleash with this thing.
 
I wouldn't worry too much about Jews giving Christmas presents. You did nothing wrong. It's just the age we live in. Many urbanites have no experience at all with any tools. Most of us probably started using knives as children and their proper and safe use is second nature to us.
 
I still have all the neat little souvenir lines on my fingers from my learning. Not that I wish a cut on anyone but you can believe that whatever mistake caused the cut was permanently implanted as a no no.
 
DaleW said:
One of the most common cuts they see at the ER on Saturday mornings is cuts across the palm of the hand, from people slicing bagels in their hand. They just haven't been trained to use tools-- always cut away, etc.
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Whenever I begin to do something stupid with a tool, I can still hear my old woodwork teacher yelling across the classroom "BOTH HANDS BEHIND THE EDGE!!" and cringe!

I gave my 4 year old son a rip-off SAK amongst other presents. Before I wrapped it though I dulled the blade with a steel, ground the tip to a rounded shape, ground the tip off the corkscrew and ground the saw teeth down to stumps (thinking of the furniture here really). He can play around opening and closing the tools on that and I'll get him something sharp in a few years when he shows the necessary common sense. I got the idea for the rounded blade tip from pictures of Opinels and Laguioles specifically made as first knives for children.

When I was around 9 or 10, every corner shop sold budget Sheffield-made penknives for the same as or less than my weekly pocket money. There was no age restriction on knife purchases then and many schoolboys kept one in their pocket.
 
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When I was around 9 or 10, every corner shop sold budget Sheffield-made penknives for the same as or less than my weekly pocket money. There was no age restriction then and many schoolboys kept one in their pocket.
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When I was in grade school I gave a kid a "Banana Knife" as his christmas gift.
 
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