Favorite Quotes from non-knife people.

Moments after seeing me open a spring assisted Benchmade:
"Dude, that's a switchblade. Those are illegal"

Of course I live in Utah and even if it was an automatic it would be legal. I just let him think that and said " Keep that on the down low."
 
Got a good one from my bonehead brother. I was telling my girl about my newest purchase, a Kershaw Rake. He walks over "You should get yourself a real knife!" *pulls out some cheap 440C with a bad heat treatment and no edge* "Like this one! I got it from K-Mart for $15." Ugh..... Why is it that everybody else in my family is a knife person, my girl is a knife person, and my brother is completely clueless. It's frankly embarrassing, I can't take him to buy knives anymore, it makes me die inside.
 
Someone I gave a knife to showed it to me a couple weeks later and it was covered in all kinds of gunk... they didn't even think to wipe the blade off the whole time.
 
This afternoon, at a lunch meeting at work, i pulled out my JYDII and cut a sandwich in half. One of my coworkers (a 20ish year old cubby hippie girl) asked me, in her most shocked voice "why would you bring a weapon to work?"

The only thing i could think to say is "I left my gun in the truck"

i think that was the wrong thing to say...
 
Fanglekai said:
Knives are a hobby and carrying a knife isn't something most people consider, so it's just like any other niche activity. I have no desire to scuba dive so I would be surprised at the amount of money people are willing to spend on that activity. Same goes for people who collect watches, pens, electronic gadgets, shoes, purses, coats, belts, coins, stamps or whatever tickles their fancy. If someone told me they paid $500 for a stamp I'd probably have the same reaction a non-knife enthusiast would upon hearing someone paid $400 for a Sebenza. A girl I worked with told me she just bought a $600 purse. I asked her if she was out of her !@#$ mind. A purse for $600? I asked her what it did that her other dozen purses couldn't do. She said "but it's Coach!!" or whatever the brand was. I suppose the difference with knives is that unlike so many other hobbies lots of people tend to think that all knives are dangerous killing tools. I work on people around me to change their views. Sometimes it works.
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Well said! You are very wise.
 
The father of my girlfriend knows I always carry a knife and he always ask to see it, he plays a bit with it and then gives it back. He doesn't make a big deal out of it.
The other day he took a knife out of his pocket telling me: "You don't have one like this, now do you?".
I said: "No I sure don't", smiling and not getting further into the subject.

It was a cheap Buck 110 copy he got in a souvenir shop at the seashore:-). Stamped "Made in China" and it had an edge that was thicker then your regular piece of cardboard.
 
I think the comments we get on our knives probably have slot to do with people's perception of us, almost no one recoils when I draw my knife, whether they know I carry one or not. But then again I am usually pretty aware of who's paying attention when I draw a knife. Anyone who knows me now knows I'm a fairly level headed caring person who doesn't stab people. On the other hand in my younger day's I was not this type of person and people where probably right to be wary of me.
I did get a good one the other day a friend who knew me in my crazier days and knows me still saw a knife in my pocket and simply said you don't need one of those anymore do you, I just replied yes, but for more legitimate reasons
 
"me and my husband were walking in spanish steps (rome) when suddenly there was a (knife) fight. i ran away leaving my husband behind."
 
I got the "Is that a switchblade!?" thing when someone just saw an Endura clipped on my pocket. I didn't flick it, didn't even have it out. Some people are just ignorant. They only thing they know about knives is the senationalized stuff they hear on the news.

One of my friends was completely awestruck that I spent $60 on that Endura. He'd probably crap himself if I bought a CRK.

And my Dad still asks me "Hey, you got your knife on you?" when he needs one, even though I carry one at all times. And sometimes I carry two. He's starting to figure it out though. He also tells me I'm crazy if I carry two knives, or any kind of fixed blade. But he's making progress. I gave him a Leek and he carries it when he's not dressed up or working (he works in the OR at a hospital).
 
Rallan said:
My all time favorite positive comment was from a rather attractive young woman who apparently noticed I had my BM Mc&W D2 clipped into my front jeans pocket in the lobby of a theater. As she walked past me she kinda quietly leaned over and said "My dad always carried a knife. Love it." I just said "Um, thanks!"

Not sure what made her say that, but it made my day.
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That sounds like it was a pickup line. :D
 
"Dude, if you leave that open on the floor, your dog could step on it."

I guess this could go either way, but with some of us ole-boys the outcome is more like:

Yaknow', the dog is out taking a s**t!:thumbdn:
 
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Time for a thread revive.

My girlfriend doesn't say much about my knife hobby, so I'm pretty glad about that.
She doesn't want to carry one, which I respect (but I do find a little silly). She does always asks for one when she needs one though...

Anyway, recently I received a bunch of Victorinox Classic knives (used). I cleaned them up, oiled them a bit, wiped them down and sharpened them.
I thought I'd try again and I said: "Hey, why don't you put one in your purse, it might come in handy some time". To my surprise she said yes.

That was two weeks ago, fast forward to yesterday. She came over and said: "Hey, you know what? I've used your knife! I thought you'd like to know."
I was pleasantly surprised and asked her to elaborate. So, she and a couple of her friends at university went to a park to collect some chestnuts. It's a pain in the a** to peel them, but she remembered she had the Vic Classic with her so she started peeling her chestnuts with it.
Her friends were looking at it and she said: here, you can use it as well if you want. So they did.
One of them did think it was necessary to ask her why she carried a knife (mind you, a Vic Classic...) so she answered to cut stuff like they were doing at that time (pretty obvious, no?). She also said she got it from me, and that I was into knives, yadda yadda.

But then...that other girl replied with: "Yeah and I understand he'd give it to you so you could feel safer. It can be dangerous outside when it's dark and you have to get your bike." My girlfriend laughed that away and didn't really want to get into that with her.

But damn, when she told me, that just blew my mind? A Vic Classic, seen as a knife that could be used for self defense? For "feeling safer"? All of my 'wat'.
That blade would probably snap off before you could even hit the guy, because of air pressure. Lol

Some people...
 
The guy who works the front desk at my office got nervous when I thumbed open my leatherman c33x to open a package that had just arrived for me. "Uh your not allowed to have weapon in the workplace " I just looked at him and said "well its a good thing this is a tool and not a weapon isn't it???? "

Its sad when people see a pocket knife as a weapon and a box knife as office supplies......
 
Thanks. I'm so sick and tired of the mentality where if someone sees a pocket knife or see someone either open carrying or CC a handgun they automatically assume they are up to no good or are a "bad guy".
 
I've heard so many...........

I usually carry 3 knives, today, I'm carrying 4.

My wife carries 2, a older S&W I got her about 9yrs ago, at SMKW, and a Kershaw Rake I got her a couple of years ago. She also has a couple of fixed blades she carries when we are woods bound, a Kabar MKI is her current fav.

Anyways, she was in line a grocery store, and had a coupon she forgot to cut out, so, she pull the Rake, and slices it out post haste. The guy behind the counter had eyes the size of half dollars. "You carry a knife?!?!" My wife just smiled, folded the Rake and put it back in her pocket, then she said, "We all do....." I pulled out my 561 and let it drop open, my oldest showed him her Pink Izula, and my youngest wiggled her SAK Spartan between her fingers.

As we were walking out of line, my little one said (made me a proud daddy:D) "Its just a tool, sir."

My youngest with my Hogue EX01. :D

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