Accidentally scaring someone with your knife? post your story

I was bar tending for my parents friends birthday party and used my delica to slice a lime. Its the waved one and when i took it out i almost gave this old lady a heart attack. She was like "thats a scary knife" lol.
 
Yep and I've really stopped giving a damn about the scared little sheep anymore. I've opened boxes for people that act like I pulled out a machete to do it I've used my CS Kudu to cut food with heck I've even started carrying a Kershaw Shuffle in my pocket to try to not raise a general alarm but I'm getting damn tired of morons who use pens and keys to open boxes and teeth to open bags and look like chimps trying to use tools when a knife is the proper tool for those jobs.
 
Haha. Its funny what some say is big.. Or scary. With me.. A dragonfly? Really? I just laughed and later said you have no idea woman. I'm a maintenance supervisor at a truck stop and they sell knives in a case. Mostly $10-30 knives. Told her I have a spyderco in my pocket that I paid well over 100 for. Tommorow I'm gonna bring my ZT and show her a $250+ knife. The next day a $400 knife. Etc etc She is a really cool girl really. Kinda a friend and told her I'm a knife collector .
 
Just hope she doesn't turn me in.. Cause we are supposed to use a safety box cutter. Pffft. One day he came upon a box he couldn't cut easily.... I did so quite easily :)
 
I read the title as "scarring" not "scaring". Different thread entirely.
 
Slice of Life said:
Just hope she doesn't turn me in.. Cause we are supposed to use a safety box cutter. Pffft. One day he came upon a box he couldn't cut easily.... I did so quite easily :)
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Maybe she won't turn you in, but she'll "turn you in!" or something. I don't know what I'm saying, it's innuendo, just go with it. :P
 
I showed a non knife aware friend my Boker auto shortly after I got it, he promptly pushed the firing button and was so shocked that he dropped it, missing his foot by inches. It stuck in the floor...
 
I live in South Carolina - we aren't afraid of knives. All upstanding Southern Gentlemen carry a pocket knife.
 
Haha what a coincidence. I bought my 4 year old Daughter an lcd tv for her Wii today. When we got it home I took out my 3.5 Xm-18 to open the box and my daughter said "whoa daddy thats a big knife" lol. She wasn't scared though :)
 
Just last weekend i was at my nieces birthday party at my sisters house, and one of her friends was trying to open a plastic toy package. They couldn't find a scissors, and somebody was going to get a kitchen knife. I said here you go, i pulled out my kershaw knockout ao, flipped it open. It has a leather cord lanyard and a few beads, and like most others, it rockets open. For that split second when it opened, it looked like she was bracing herself for a punch as she flinched. She slowly took it from my hand, and used it.

A little later a guy came up to me (maybe her boyfriend), and says you shouldn't carry that, they're illegal. Its certainly not illegal here, and i assume he thought it was an auto, but i was in no mood to play the knife politics game. I just said, you're wrong, and walked away.

I wonder what would have happen if i wave opened a big Emerson...she'd have ducked and covered.
 
I carry an old spyderco police necklace knife for use when I don't want to scare the people, but still need a sharp edge. It's got about a 1inch blade on it, and looks cute as hell. Nobody has EVER said anything about it other than marveling at the fact that it is the smallest functional lockback they've ever seen.

Works well enough for cutting threads and tape, there's no reason to pull out the longer blade for that kind of thing. If you're gonna walk among the herd, better to not scare the sheep.
 
Slice of Life said:
We all buy shorter knives to prevent someone from getting scared that you just pulled out your knife. I just had it happen about 15 minutes ago. I bought a dragonfly2 for my work. I pulled it out to cut some tape and she said "that's a big knife".. I calmly said "nah that's not a big knife ". Thinking of pulling out my PM2 to show her a bigger one I didn't. Thought it was funny of some of the ones I do carry on rotation. Post your story
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Strange, about 5 years ago the same thing happened to me . Dragonfly, tape cutting, & comment. Even my reply. Weird.
However I don't buy short knives so I don't scare people. I buy them because I like them.
 
None of my knives have ever frightened anyone I'm aware of, though what they do when I'm not around isn't my business.
I don't offer my knife or take my knife out to help a moron trying to open something with a pen, etc. I prefer to either walk away or watch the show. If they don't ask I don't ever offer.
My previous HR person...this young, yuppie, sheeple female...tried to enact a rule restricting knives at work because many of us carry largish folders...now we are all issued craptastic fixed blade knives as they are needed in a paper mill...we all laughed at her attempt and flat out refused. The GM never tried to enact her "suggestion" and it died a quiet death.
 
Super fast opening tends to alarm people, which is why I only carry manual knives that can be opened slowly when this is wise to do. I have to make a conscious effort to produce and open the knife more deliberately than normal if I'm with somebody I think will be sensitive. The "big, sharp, open knife out of nowhere" is almost guaranteed to alarm people who aren't used to modern folders. I try to be a knife ambassador, not an alarming knife nut.
 
I don't recall really scaring anyone But I got my feelings hurt once by a non knife guy He's never carried a knife in his life but always needs something cut one day he needed a couple of pieces of line cut
I had left my Spyderco in my bunk so used my new microtech ultratech he looked at it kinda of funny I thought he was going to complain about me having an auto on the boat, but instead he said "cool man I need one of those I never thought to carry a Box Cutter"
 
If anyone has ever been scared by any of my knives they must have been too scared to say anything to me about it. I'm 44 years old, been carrying and using knives around others since I was a child, been openly carrying a fixed-blade for over ten years, and I have never had anyone say anything to me to indicate that they were scared or received any frightened reactions. Of course, I don't go looking for frightened reactions, so it's possible that they have occurred and I simply didn't notice.

As far as people getting scared by the sight of a knife, I wouldn't automatically blame it on the knife owner. A lot of people have irrational fears in this world, including a fear of knives, or more specifically- a fear of people who carry knives. I believe that people are more afraid of the sight of a person carrying/using a knife in public than they are afraid of knives themselves. I believe that many people associate the carrying of knives as something that only a criminal would do.
 
killgar said:
carry[/I] knives. I believe that people are more afraid of the sight of a person carrying/using a knife in public than they are afraid of knives themselves. I believe that many people associate the carrying of knives as something that only a criminal would do.
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I think this sums it up perfectly everything people see especially on tv/in the movies its only The Bad guy that pulls a knife (in most case's) and always to hurt someone.
 
I have never really scared anyone. Though once when I was 11? I got my first oho. I have been working manually since eight so for a kid my age I had quite strong hands (mydad did the right thing and got me in the shed early:)) I once illustrated to one of my friends mothers that it was capable of opening quite quickly. She let out a quick gasp and said no more. Then there was this other time when we needed to cut a piece of rope for a party game and one of my friends, my brother and myself all reached into our pockets, my brother pulled out a small Pacific cutlery linerlock, my mate pulled out a SAK supertinker and I pulled out a brass bolster integral lock back. we simultaneously extended them towards him handle first. Everyone was shocked, it was brilliant. The guy with the rope was an earth mover and he was a bit surprised but didn't say anything, I didn't need to explain the utlility :)
 
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