Can I borrow your knife?

I don’t entirely blame the OP, I mean anyone with even the slightest semblance of intelligence should know that asphalt would destroy a knife. I would understand if the knife came back dull or scratched, but it isn’t unreasonable to think someone wouldn’t dig into pavement with a knife I loaned them. IMO, this dude deliberately destroyed your property and SHOULD have enough common courtesy to replace it regardless of his position.
 
Don't ever lend out stuff you're not fully prepared to loose.

I have a dedicated loaner, an old beat up slipjoint SAK that is already off the books. If I borrow it to someone, I tell them to be careful as it doesn't lock. :)
 
pvicenzi said:
The answer is, "Let me cut it for you"
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I've said this many, many times. If they come up with something I wouldn't cut with my knife, I tell them so.
If I don't know them at all my response is "I don't have one with me." Of course anyone that knows me would burst into laughter.
Too many folks out there that just don't know how to use a knife properly, or don't take care of any of their tools.
 
Yo Mama said:
Yeah, they discontinued it, been through a lot, I am thinking I may need to retire it soon as Leatherman will only replace it with a Micra
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I can't say I blame them for disco'ing it as I've only ever liked the idea of it and never owned one personally, but there's a lot of heart broken people out there now that those will become scarce.
 
Vlade said:
So what do you say when someone asks you if they can borrow your knife?
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In terms of personal relationships, I live by the motto: "Never a lender nor a borrower be."

If I know the person well and like the person asking, I might gift him/her a knife that I already have but don't want/need or buy them a knife as a gift but I'd never loan one of mine that I still valued in any way.
 
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At work (which is the only place I ever get asked for knife loan) I have a Lansky World Legal. It's incredibly ugly but cheap. So when my boss comes along and wants to cut something, that's what he gets given.
 
I said this in another post over in cc. A person who doesn’t carry a knife is not to be trusted! They probably are mentally challenged and lack proper reasoning and lack the skills to use a knife safely and correctly. Let them learn on their own money and use their own tools and save yourself the hassle!
 
All he would have had to do was tell me what he was doing and where and I would have went with him and I would have used a Johnson bar to break the asphalt instead of my pocket knife. It wasn't a very expensive knife it was a schrade lb7 back when shrade was made in the USA. But that's not the point or the principle. When this occurred there was two most used work knives. There was a buck 110 which everybody had and then it was the shrade
 
Sharp & Fiery said:
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.
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This is what I would be pushing for as well, replacement of your tool that was both misused and broken during it's use. Digging through ashphalt with a knife is stupid, and I've done some pretty dumb things with knives in the name of testing.

Either way, they damaged your property on a company job so they're responsible for the replacement.

That's a pretty crappy deal and if the boss doesn't take ownership of being an idiot and destroying your tool, I would be brushing up my resume' pretty quick.
 
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