At what point do you say goodbye?

Georgia Guy

Georgia Guy

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To set the stage, I bought my wife a Benchmade mini-auto Stryker for Christmas two years ago for her EDC.
Fast forward to yesterday, we went to run the Warrior Dash in Georgia. While there she goes into a porta potty. She is in there about ten seconds and the door flies open and she says I need a wet wipe now! I think she has stepped in something or needs to clean the seat. But no she has dropped her Benchmade into the “blue goo”. She says I can see it, it is right on top I am goanna get it! She comes out with it wrapped in a wet wipe and puts it in a zip lock bag. I know what you are thinking was it clean and the answer is NO. It is covered in poo! We are staying in a hotel room so after the race we stop by Rite-Aid and buy, gloves, Clorox, and a brush. She boils water in the in room coffee pot washes it then begins the Clorox baths. Some thirty minutes later it’s as clean as we can make it. All I have asked myself is would I have been man enough to go in after it?
 
That is a great story GG. You have a terrific wife if she retrieved that knife from that "location". I'd have gone after my knife too. She is a trooper! :thumbup:
 
:barf: I'm not sure exactly at what point one should goodbye to a beloved knife, but I think you and your wife went way past it. ;)

I'm (mostly) kidding -- depending on what the knife was, I would have gone after it too. If it had been a $30 Tenacious, Byrd, etc. probably not, since for the time, expense, etc. of cleaning it up I could just buy another one. But for a $100+ knife like the one she had, I would have gone after it.

P.S. Remind me never to buy a Mini Auto Stryker from you on the Exchange. :p
 
Georgia Guy said:
To set the stage, I bought my wife a Benchmade mini-auto Stryker for Christmas two years ago for her EDC.
Fast forward to yesterday, we went to run the Warrior Dash in Georgia. While there she goes into a porta potty. She is in there about ten seconds and the door flies open and she says I need a wet wipe now! I think she has stepped in something or needs to clean the seat. But no she has dropped her Benchmade into the “blue goo”. She says I can see it, it is right on top I am goanna get it! She comes out with it wrapped in a wet wipe and puts it in a zip lock bag. I know what you are thinking was it clean and the answer is NO. It is covered in poo! We are staying in a hotel room so after the race we stop by Rite-Aid and buy, gloves, Clorox, and a brush. She boils water in the in room coffee pot washes it then begins the Clorox baths. Some thirty minutes later it’s as clean as we can make it. All I have asked myself is would I have been man enough to go in after it?
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Your Lady is a champ. Honestly I would have gone after it as well. Now if it had "sunk", I probably would have chalked it up as a sacrifice to the porta potty gods.
 
I would have gone after it. If i couldn't see it and/or had to sift through to find it... I'd just leave it for the guy who cleans 'em out to discover. Now, if it was a Strider or CRK, i just may have sucked it up and done it anyway.
 
I'm impressed at how you washed it, I know folks who would have at most rinsed it off. :barf:

Good thing it was a floater.
 
Hell yes I would have gone after it. No question. On the other hand I would have taken whatever steps necessary to avoid dropping it in a pile of excrement, but hey...

Your wife has the dedication of a true knife nut. :thumbup: :D
 
Full tilt all the time- I would have been like that little kid in slum dog millionaire- swimming in *&$% before id let something like that go.
 
She said that in that in few seconds she had until she told me she had what if felt a 10 minute train of thoughts with every excuse she could think of to tell me. But I can honestly say she LOVES her knife and never goes anywhere with out it.
 
Hang onto that woman. She's a keeper.

I don't know what I would have done had my knife gone in the poop.
 
I think I might have had to let that one go.

Blue water - yes.

Blue / brown - no.
 
I would have left a note for the owner of the port-o-jon and let them know that my knife was in the bottom of their "unit" and tell them the value. Offer it to them at their choice.
 
I've worked in septic tanks before and all the crap. I'm going in after a 30 dollar folder. :)
 
You have a keeper. Get her a Sebebza next anniversary. Not sure that I would've reached into that but I'd be back with a trashbag around my arm or something. Losing it will bother you longer than retrieving it will.
 
...Gloves to get it out of the poop with...A good idea, but then she should have just swished it around in the nearest mudpuddle, and wiped it off on her jeans.:D.
 
Its just shit, so I wouldve gone in for it also. Having kids and all the fun with child rearing has hardened me to stuff like that- ha ha.
 
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