Can I borrow your knife?

[Vlade]

good morning gentlemen,
Curious if any thing like this has ever happened to you. We was on the job and the superintendent asked me can he borrow my knife. I said okay and gave him my knife. About an hour later he comes back with my knife. It was destroyed. I asked him, boss what did you do to my knife, he said I had to dig through some asphalt to do a density test. From that day forward if anybody ever asked to borrow my knife I would definitely always say NO. Buy your own.
. So what do you say when someone asks you if they can borrow your knife? Sometimes I find it hard to say no. But not after that experience.

 

[John_B]

Dude, I put the blame 100% on your shoulders for handing your sticker to an obvious retard. Remember no one on plant Earth gives a crap about your stuff as much as you do. Chalk this up to a life lesson learned.

 

[Planterz]

I always ask "why?". If it's to cut a box, I hand them my box cutter. Otherwise, I end up cutting the thing they need cut for them, or hand them a screwdriver or scissors or whatever the proper tool is because the proper tool isn't a knife.

 

[EngrSorenson]

I carry a SAK and another knife at all times. The SAK is the loaner. If it gets run over by a truck, it sets me back 30 bucks.

Loaning stuff to people is usually a risk.

 

[ohen cepel]

After an experience like that years ago, I went to putting a lanyard on my knife and it was attached to my belt. Sure, you could "borrow" it to open an MRE or some such but I was standing right there so you didn't go cutting wire with it or doing other moronic things with it. Most people opted to go elsewhere when they realized I wasn't going to let some window-licker wonder off with my blade to do stupid sh!t with it.

 

[Vlade]

Dude, I put the blame 100% on your shoulders for handing your sticker to an obvious retard. Remember no one on plant Earth gives a crap about your stuff as much as you do. Chalk this up to a life lesson learned.

You're 100 percent correct.

 

[1911bphil]

I have several knives that I carry everyday. One is always a cheaper beater that I could loan out. I offer to cut the item because I don't trust others to not destroy the knife. I have learned that a lot of people don't know how to handle a tool properly, not just knives. Just my humble opinion.

 

[Daniel Dorn]

I have a hard time lending anything out. Tools only to friends I know have the knowledge and skills, knife only if you are in my will (meaning only those i trustwithmylife).

 

[Drop bear]

good morning gentlemen,
Curious if any thing like this has ever happened to you. We was on the job and the superintendent asked me can he borrow my knife. I said okay and gave him my knife. About an hour later he comes back with my knife. It was destroyed. I asked him, boss what did you do to my knife, he said I had to dig through some asphalt to do a density test. From that day forward if anybody ever asked to borrow my knife I would definitely always say NO. Buy your own.
. So what do you say when someone asks you if they can borrow your knife? Sometimes I find it hard to say no. But not after that experience.

Borrow his car keys and throw them in the toilet.

 

[cbach8tw]

I ask what they want to cut first, that usually helps, and I have an inexpensive one to let them use.

 

[Vlade]

Borrow his car keys and throw them in the toilet.

I needed my job. That would have gotten me fired. He should have gotten me a new one. But of course that didn't happen.

 

[Fonedork]

I had a similar situation when I handed a knife to a subcontractor and he used it to cut and pry porcelain tiles off a kitchen floor and scrape the grout off the tiles, but the knife was a Busse and it was fine. Even the tile guy kept looking at it as he was using it, as if he was wondering how it didn’t get all messed up.

 

[Kettleman]

I was a tradesmen for a lifetime before landing a desk and I still put on redwings everyday. We in the trades don’t loan our tools out as we are surrounded by 2 types of people, those that are carrying their own tools or those that aren’t smart enough to use tools so the hired us. I would no sooner hand my knife to an idiot ( everyone else has one) then I would let my dog drive my truck.

 

[Ratatoskr]

In the trades, everyone around had their own knives. In the office/administrative world. there's not a lot that's going to mess up my knife. I always have a folder (nice cuts) and a leatherman (not nice cuts) and I'm happy to lend a knife to someone who needs it, but a quick assay of the situation will let me know if I want to lend a folder or a leatherman.

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Take your knife, with a screenshot of the cost of a new one, and go to the office and get a new one expensed to you.

Let the boss know that he needs to expense a new one because it is your paid for property that he wrecked.

A long while back, I did this same thing. He never asked to borrow my knife again after having to expense the cost of the knife.

Then I opened my own business…happily ever after. Haha.

 

[EngrSorenson]

Take your knife, with a screenshot of the cost of a new one, and go to the office and get a new one expensed to you.

Let the boss know that he needs to expense a new one because it is your paid for property that he wrecked.

A long while back, I did this same thing. He never asked to borrow my knife again after having to expense the cost of the knife.

Then I opened my own business…happily ever after. Haha.

Also have a back up plan

 

[Vlade]

Naw hell, I just did the best and bought a new one.

 

[dryflytrout]

I'd crash my company truck if my boss destroyed my knife.

 

[pholder]

As I’ve become older I usually carry 2 nice knives for me to use only. When someone asks to borrow one I usually tell them if they need a knife, they should carry one

 

[Armithius]

I usually only loan my knife to family members cause they know how much I value them, though I do still usually ask what they're going to do with it. I did loan one to a friend once to cut some banana bread, which was fine. What was not fine was him trying to wipe it off with the only thing available besides his shirt, which was balled up aluminum foil. I stopped loaning them out after that. Thankfully it wasn't as bad as some of your stories though. Sorry that happened to y'all.