This year I didn't ask for a knife for Christmas. We had to spend a lot of money on home repairs and I just couldn't justify a new knife. After all, I don't "need" one and probably won't for the rest of my life. So it was a Christmas of necessities.
However, my wife did something for me that reminded me all over again why I married her 18 years ago. She has seen me fawning over the Case/Bose 2014 Whittler knife, and so she went ahead and ordered one.
Or so she thought.
What she actually ordered was the 2013 Trapper. This is a knife I initially overlooked because I thought it would be too thick and bulky to carry in my pocket, and I can't justify spending that kind of money on a knife that would sit in a drawer. Besides, I don't know Tony Bose but I imagine he is the sort of gent who would want any knife with his name on it to be used and enjoyed.
So, Christmas morning, after all the gifts were opened, my wife asked me to get her something from the kitchen and there, lo and behold, was one more package. I opened it and found an extra large Case box. Within, a leather pouch.
My hands shook as I unzipped the pouch and found the knife wrapped in tissue paper within.
The whittler, I thought--
She went and got me the whittler I had been ogling since it was announced.
Paper came off and--
It was the wrong knife.
It was the knife I never wanted.
But you know what?
It's now a knife I cherish more than all the others.
It's a knife my wife picked out for me, and though it wasn't the whittler, I think I made out even better.
It's not too bulky.
And it's not too heavy.
It's a beautiful work of art I am thankful to have.
So thank you to Tony Bose, for designing a knife I never knew how much I wanted.
And thank you to my wife, for making a mistake that turned into a truly wonderful gift I will hopefully have to the day I die.
And I hope all of you out there had a Merry Christmas.
However, my wife did something for me that reminded me all over again why I married her 18 years ago. She has seen me fawning over the Case/Bose 2014 Whittler knife, and so she went ahead and ordered one.
Or so she thought.
What she actually ordered was the 2013 Trapper. This is a knife I initially overlooked because I thought it would be too thick and bulky to carry in my pocket, and I can't justify spending that kind of money on a knife that would sit in a drawer. Besides, I don't know Tony Bose but I imagine he is the sort of gent who would want any knife with his name on it to be used and enjoyed.
So, Christmas morning, after all the gifts were opened, my wife asked me to get her something from the kitchen and there, lo and behold, was one more package. I opened it and found an extra large Case box. Within, a leather pouch.
My hands shook as I unzipped the pouch and found the knife wrapped in tissue paper within.
The whittler, I thought--
She went and got me the whittler I had been ogling since it was announced.
Paper came off and--
It was the wrong knife.
It was the knife I never wanted.
But you know what?
It's now a knife I cherish more than all the others.
It's a knife my wife picked out for me, and though it wasn't the whittler, I think I made out even better.
It's not too bulky.
And it's not too heavy.
It's a beautiful work of art I am thankful to have.
So thank you to Tony Bose, for designing a knife I never knew how much I wanted.
And thank you to my wife, for making a mistake that turned into a truly wonderful gift I will hopefully have to the day I die.
And I hope all of you out there had a Merry Christmas.
