Anyone Ever Think Your Crazy?

Forget knives! Try capturing the look on their faces when you tell them you spent $20,000.00 on your stereo speakers!!!!!

My only two problems: Knives and high-end audio! So sue me!
 
And I felt funny spending $66.00
for an old 3 1/4" Loveless Gerber Guardian
on E-bay an hour ago....
20K?
 
People think it's strange when I tell them that I own about a couple hundred knives. About 100 are kitchen knives, maybe 70 are in my military knife collection, and only about 30 modern hunting/utility knives. I usually don't even get to talking price.
 
Yeah! Everyone I know thinks I am crazy, especially my girlfriend. Problem is I also drink and smoke! (but not too much)

People friek when I get one out to use it......illegal to carry here but I do anyway. I figure if you look respectable, they ain't gonna bother you.

Also knife collecting not very popular in Oz so I don't really have any knife buddies except for you guys.:(
 
"Forget knives! Try capturing the look on their faces when you tell them you spent $20,000.00 on your stereo speakers!!!!!

My only two problems: Knives and high-end audio! So sue me!"

When it comes to crazy, knife knuts can take lessons from audiophiles. I spent 7+ years working for a manufacturer in that business and barely escaped with my mental health. Other than that twitch in by right cheek.
 
I have gone to the same laundermat for 15 years. I know the owners and they have known that I will sometimes let myself into the restroom using a small stockman. They are cool folks.

A while back I did this and noticed this strange woman watching me. She was not from the neighborhood. Next thing I knew she was a few doors down sobbing into a payphone.

About 1/2 hour later these 2 cops on bicycles showed up. They said the lady had said "He has a knife. He might go O.J. on everyone!!!"
After telling the cops my story they left. One of them said "The lady must have issues."
 
I usually don't make a big deal out of my knives. I have one friend that's somewhat into knives, but not really. Most of the time, I carry it IWB so you can't see it because my shirt is covering it. I don't mess around with them in public and only pull it out whenever something needs to be cut. Whenever I carry it clipped to my pocket, nobody gives me weird looks (dunno if they see it or not, but no weird looks either way; kinda strange since I live in California and people here will flinch if you have a butter knife:rolleyes: ). The only person that has asked to see my knife when it was clipped to the pocket is my barber. I was carrying a Chive at the time and he was interested in the speedsafe mechanism. After he handed it back, he reached back and pulled out a fully serrated Spyderco Endura, which I never knew he had. Good to know that I can always talk about knives with him.:)
 
I think my friends have mostly come to terms with my knives. They used to say "wow, that's a scary knife", since I had been moving up in size and nastiness, from a Gerber AR 3.00 to a CRKT M16 to a Buck-Strider folder to a BM AFCK. Now they just say "The God of Knives!" whenever I pull it out to either use myself or to lend to one of them.

However, I've had someone ask behind my back why the university hasn't kicked me out yet... Hrm. At the time I was the only knife-using person opening up food packages for 30 people. Someone else there asked me why I had the knife, right as I was cutting their food open.

I haven't used my Strider MFS in public yet. That's just a little over the top, with the tiger stripes and paracord. I do carry it though, since you never know when you might have to hack open the wreckage of a car to save people. Ah the daydreams of a knifenut.
(Anyone remember Chris Connoly/Perilous Truth's experience?)
 
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