Awkward knife carrying moments...

myright said:
Sheeple suck ass and a bunch of a$$holes.

You should have said "Go sit in your damn chair and try and eat without your 'weapon' "
My wife's side of the family always comments as to why I need to carry a knife. It has never stopped them from asking to use it though.

Did I say Sheeple suck ass already?
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Yeah, grab his steak knife and tell him to eat without his "dangerous weapon".
 
you know i think this is funny. i am a manager at a fast food place and i use AND carry one daily. i cut open boxes, and bags, adn all sorts of stuff. its funny cause everyone i work with knows i carry, and they dont care at all. they always ask me to cut stuff for them. i even keep it clipped to my pocket up front in front of customers adn never had anyone say a thing. i feel for ya man...i feel for ya.
 
I've had so many people ask "what do you need a knife for?" that every time I use my knife in front of someone, I reflexively say: "And THAT is what I need a knife for."

Most awkward moment? I went to a Tool concert a couple years ago and forgot I had my M16-13z clipped to my pocket. I checked it at the door...

... and when I went to leave and tried to collect it, the dickhead manager type dragged me over to talk to the police about it. The worst part was that I didn't realize the pivot had come a bit loose, and when the cop wrist flicked it, the blade opened a quarter of the way.:eek:

For those of you who don't know, this is a SERIOUS NO-NO in Canada.

I had visions of going to jail over it, but I guess the cop believed me when I said I didn't realize it would open that way. Probably from my dinner plate eyes when she managed to flick it open. She gave it back to me and sent me on my way.

The cop was pretty reasonable, but I'd really like to give that manager a swift kick in the family jewels over the incident. If I were planning on starting shit, would I have CHECKED THE KNIFE? Jeez.

Edited to add: You'd better believe the first thing I did when I got home was to tighten that pivot down.
 
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Had I been at the wedding, I'd have been carrying my gun as well as my knife. I hate going out in public naked!
 
i had a guy from NC think its kind of weird that a lot og guys here in va carry knives yet he was used to carrying a machete in nc, wtf?
-matt
 
These days my bread and butter job is rainforest regen and I live on property with catlle etc. In short I live and work in the great outdoors. I carry a multitool (Leatherman Surge) EVERYWHERE on my belt, it is a tool I use as part of my job. I often find the need to carry a fixed blade as well. Reason is that it's so handy to have a fixed blade in a sheath on your belt ready to go; you pull it out, cut something, put it back, use both hands for the task at hand, then pull out your knife, make another cut, put it back etc etc. Problem is that I'm often coming into contact with the public, and as we know the public don't like you carrying a sheath knife. My solution is when I need to carry a sheath-knife at work, I use a good old 3inch blade Frosts-Mora fishing knife with a light blue handle; the colour makes it look less intimidating, almost like a toy, and the plastic sheath is as small as it could possible be. I find that way that I can carry a sheath-knife and people don't seemed threatened by it. Also I treat the knife very roughly and being a Frost's knife it only cost about $12 Australian so I'm not at all 'precious' with it.
 
What an awesome thread (only read the first page so far, but it's all so familiar!).

Someone saw me move my LM wave from a suitcase to my pocket and starts a big commotion with the group about how I'm carrying a weapon. Within ten minutes, every single person needs to borrow it to trim ID bracelets. Over the next few days people kept borrowing it, but in that time no one ever even pretended to understand why you'd want to carry a knife.
 
WyoBlade said:
The version of mumbley peg that we played would have two players facing each other, a few inches apart, with their feet at shoulder width.

I haven't thought about that for years. Certainly is different today.

Ed
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You ought try it with a recurved bow and some target arrows you don't know what 'yer missing :)



Truth be known?

If you are abiding by the laws of your land, and you are a responsible person, you should never have to beg a pardon or excuse yourself for your actions.

I cannot bend to the will/words of ignorance. Most if not all reactions that I have read so far appear to be self righteous, not uneducated deserving insight.

I have heard a lot of the same situations I grew up with like, "'Lemme git yer knife mines dull," or "I left mine at home I must have rabies or 'sumtin."

In Florida, a weapons permit negates all LEO encounters to the realm of routine, and in the "un" south we try not to worry about such things, urban environment or otherwise.

When there are IWB holsters with slight bulge at the 1700hr position and a small metal clip hanging off the pocket of the majority the world will be a safer, more polite, less PC, more enjoyable place to live.

Without PARENTS teaching their offspring right/wrong and cause/effect, and a solid understanding of history in the last three hundred years or so we are doomed to a naive society of ignorance.
 
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while slightly off topic its still pretty related.

ive had so many idiots that go "o can i see your knife" , "ok sure, its assisted opening and pretty sharp", in all honesty i consider my knives working sharp not uber sharp but they are still good enough to cut some one. yet everyone thinks they are supposed to push their thumb against the blade or rub a finger/thumb along the blade and they dont get why i freak out and go "STOP STOP STOP STOP STOPPPPPPP". luckily no one has gotten cut on my knives yet but i also havent kept them any where near as sharp as i want to be.

i know it is really messed up but im at the point that i want my knife to be sharp enough that some one is stupid enough to test the blade wrong and gets a huge laceration just so they learn a lesson... then i would also yell at them for getting blood all on my good knife
-matt
 
Today I was working in the yard, planting, cutting the grass, etc.

My neighbor came over to chat and looked at me like I was in idiot because I had my Leatherman on my belt and asked why I needed it.

I couldn't imagine not having some type of bladed tool on me especially when I'm in the yard working. I thought a multi-tool was the most sheeple friendly tool. I guess some people just cut things with thier teeth and don't need knives :)
 
Luckily I havent had a problem with any one yet, ecspecily considering im still in high school and always carry something. around here( Olympic pin WA)
most carry, even little kids, so I am a little spioled :D crazy sheeple:grumpy:
 
At my wedding I was packing a emerson cqc-7 my wife a benchmade
panther and a cliplock gerber in here garter belt.people were incouraged
to bring knives uurrrr......tools my best man was packin a benchmade panther
a gift from me during fishing season.Everyone I know nows I pack guns and knives.I typically carry 5-6 knives on me.If I pack less my friends think
I'm sick or something.I also have 18 yrs in the army,8.5 years as a corrections
officer.and I grew up in PHX,AZ soooo think already know I'm a little off.
As for when people ask me why I carry a knife i get and evil glint in my eye.
and say "because I can." I've defended this great nation for 18 yrs and served
her proudly.I'm sorry I'm 38 yrs old I really don't care what a piss ant 20-30 yr
old has to say or judge me by their own stigmatas.

Tyrantblade
 
I may have posted this a looooooooong time ago. Or maybe not. I'm honestly not sure. Anyways, I worked in the art supplies department of an arts & crafts store for about a year. Since the part of the floor associates' job involved stocking shelves, it was necessary to open boxes and then later break them down to go in the compactor. Most of the others were content to use whatever box cutters were provided by the store manager. I preferred to use the smaller blade on a Vic SAK. At least twice my department manager (a guy), upon seeing me with it, "joked" that I shouldn't go mugging anyone with it. My response was a polite "ha ha, very funny" smile, even though I didn't find it amusing. I don't know if his remark was the result of his own imagination or if another employee or maybe a customer had complained at some point.

Mind you, since it was my own personal knife, there was very little chance that I was going to, say, leave it sitting on a shelf, where someone's grabby young'un could find it and hurt him/herself with it, the way my fellow associates did with those box cutters. I've found box cutters left on the shelves of other stores where they'd been forgotten by employees, too.
 
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