Brings a tear to my eye...

Bastid said:
Years ago, before BFC, I used to sell knives at shows. Really just did it for fun and to meet knife nuts. (It worked. ;)).

I specialized in higher quality stuff, but would keep my eye out for closeouts of good stuff in the distributor catalogs I received at the time and would buy a few of them and keep them under the table in a bag.

When a kid would come by with his parents, after the kid was distracted I would ask mom or dad if it was OK if I gave them one of the knives from the "bag". The look and appreciation from the kid and sometimes even the parent(s) was priceless.
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:thumbup::D
 
i never had that opprotunity as a kid. I picked up my love of knives by trying to rebel when I was 12. My parents just accepted it lol. I do remember once when I was young though, my dad kept an old camillus that the navy gave to him. It was in a toolbox. He had 2 i think. But i remember he would work on the house and I'd play with it. Was a great knife. I actually just sharpened it up for him.
 
oldrifleman said:
Last night I was sitting in front of the TV and my 6yr old little girl decides to bring an apple for me to cut up, without a knife of course. I take out my swayback and cut off a pieces and she suddenly decides it has has to be peeled, and she wants to do it. So I look around to make sure wife is not around and carefully guide her through removing the peel from the apple. Good news is no blood, bad news is little girl does not know how keep mouth shut (wife very unhappy!). This summer daughter and I will spend some time making toothpicks out of branches while camping, until then I need to teach her some safety rules.
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Old rifleman. Dont teach your daughter to keep her mouth shut. Its a blessing through the uppbringingyears to have kids that tell the important things that happen to them(good or bad). My advise is. dont send her other messages than that telling parents is the right thing to do. And peeling a first apple with a knife is a large thing to tell. She probobly know her mother an knew she wouldent be totaly pleased and still told, this is a thing to look at from the bright side.
One thing has to be talked about though, and that is with the wife, that you will take responsibility about the knifeteaching.

Bosse
 
NirreBosse said:
Old rifleman. Dont teach your daughter to keep her mouth shut. Its a blessing through the uppbringingyears to have kids that tell the important things that happen to them(good or bad). My advise is. dont send her other messages than that telling parents is the right thing to do. And peeling a first apple with a knife is a large thing to tell. She probobly know her mother an knew she wouldent be totaly pleased and still told, this is a thing to look at from the bright side.
One thing has to be talked about though, and that is with the wife, that you will take responsibility about the knifeteaching.
Bosse
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:DI know, we have an open communications channel, but still Mom found out a little sooner than I had planned. Mom and I have already started the conversation about our daughter and pocket knives.
 
You and your daughter made a good start then. No time to wait for whats nice to share in those precious years. My wife is the same with knifes. She dont mind them but has a different opinion when its time to start off. We both know that knifes and other tools is my domains.
 
What a great thread:thumbup::thumbup: I remember going to a "gun show" in Louisville years ago, maybe 1966?? With my Dad and Mom. I had about 25 cents pocket money, I was determined to buy a pocket knife. I pinned down one vendor that that had kinives for $.99(?). I had maybe $.25. I kept running back to Mama for more money (Maybe she gave me another nickle,) Finally the vendor on the side of the table sez, "here kid, go away ", and tossed me the knife for free. :):):):) It was a brown celluoid jack knife. I had it for years, but finally lost it mowing grass somehow. G**D bless his sole the old guy was good to a kid once at least once.
 
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