Dumbest thing someone else has done with your knife

JNieporte said:
Almost every time I get a new knife, somebody just has to run their finger along the edge to "test" it, and invariably winds up receiving a cut.
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AMEN Brother.
I was home entertaining a long time Friend of mine when UPS showed up with my latest toy a Skyblade Madison 4 custom job made by Todd Orr of Bozeman Montana.
My forth from Todd as he does Master work with Christian pricing!
We both begin to admire the woods unique burls and the ATS-34 gleaming from top to bottom, Good Lord it was perfect. Except one thing. Evidently it needed his blood.
Like countless times before he asked he to examine it closer... as in may I see the knife please? Friends for 30 plus years, he knows my collection almost as well as me. This is where it begins to go in S L O W M O T I O N.
Just like a bad movie I watched in silence thru the slow motion as he held the blade in his right hand then drew his left thumb LENGTHWISE along the blade.

I don't buy many factory blades,but can assure you that men who create from bar stock your blade to your specs and sell you a one of a kind blade where the bladesmith is sole author you can count on that blade being sharp.
Not just sharp , but scary sharp.
The blade did just what it was intended to do. Fourteen stitches lengthwise down his thumb on a Sunday night ER delirium.
As I waited replaying the slow motion act in my mind. I realized that I have seen too many others do this upon their first handling of a foreign blade finding its way into their hands.
I asked him on the way home during a uncomfortable quite time..."Pat why would you slide your thumb down the length of a brand new knife?"
Quite ensued for a few moments longer. then he answered.
"I'm really not sure why. I've seen others do it and I have done it before too. But this time I went the wrong way and it was so sharp I didn't feel it cutting through me until I stopped and looked at the blood flow."
"oh" said I and we continued to drive home in silence.
New rule for me is NO. Politely saying I have spent time in the ER before for saying yes, you can see it fine without holding it I promise.
So far only one grumpy look afterwords.
Peace.
 
Several years back and before I retired (for the second and last time) a co worker asked to see my knife, one of the old time S&W folders. I handed it to him and he started to use the point to tighten a screw on his fancy watch band. I was so POed I was icy. I asked for the knife back, used every nasty word I'd learned in 25 years in the army, and never spoke to him again. I absolutely HATE it when stupid jerks use fine implements for the wrong purpose. I had to put my hands in my pockets to keep from giving him a free five minute lesson in self defense. Still makes me mad thinking about it.
 
Not a biggie, but when one of the french exchange students borrowed my Victorinox Hunter to open a bottle of wine, the guy couldnt figure out what to with the micro screwdriver in the cork screw so he used the cork screw with the screwdriver in place (you know what you mean if you have a SAK with micro screwdriver in the cork screw). That was pretty stupid.
 
I was working off shore in the Gulf of Mexico as a comercial diver on oil rigs and saw a guy trying to cut rope by making a loop in it and pulling the knife through it toward his body. The knife slipped through the quarter inch polypropalene rope easily but went right into the guys eye! He had to be life flighted off the rig by a helecopter.
 
First time I had an encounter with the clueless was 22 years ago. Female co-worker sees my SAK, and asks to borrow it to open a box. As she slides the knife down the taped edge, I notice that the knife bumps up,twice, as she makes the cut. I go over to see why, and as she hands back the knife I notice decent sized chuncks taken out of it, thats when I see the two HUGE INDUSTRIAL STAPLES that were used in addition to the tape. As I look at whats left of the edge, girl (teenager) just shrugs. I've had others over the years that are very familier to everyone here(how sharp is it? using it as a prybar screwdriver) but since that first time,I have usually intervened before any real damage was done.
REMEMBER FOLKS, THERE IS A REASON THAT THEY ARE ASKING YOU TO BORROW A KNIFE FROM!!!
Been my experiance that most of them are sheeple. I'll never lend my knife/tool to ANYONE that I don't know or would'nt trust with it.
 
i now often carry one of those mini pry bars that are about 6 inches long (15 cm) just in case anyone wants to try to borrow my knife to pry with.

the other day my ex-neighbor was over with her cousin (male about 40 yrs old) that is always talking about all the knives and things he used to play with when he was a kid whenever i pull a knife or anything. this day, he asked to see the 4 inch very sharp (just got through sharpening it a few minutes before) that i had on my belt. because he seems like the kind of guy that would know what he is doing, i handed it to him. he then takes the knife and starts to toss it up and down, catching it loosely in his hand, sometimes by the blade. he was tossing it up a few feet!!!!! luckily, he did not hurt himself or anyone else (a few people standing around roughly 5 feet from him). i don't think i will let him borrow any of my gear again
 
Friend of mine in High School's Dad was a knife dealer and carried Microtech he would go to all the Gun Shows and sell there, Microtech had just come out with with either the Halo 1 or Halo 2, it was brand now and impossible to find and this very very large man wanted to see it, he was a self proclamed expert on OTF knives and so he was alloud to handle it after a safty talk and demo, what does he do?? the second he gets his hands on it he flips it over and arround in his hand and fires it... 2" into his huge gut he was wisked off to the ER but not before he bought it... He just had to have it.
 
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