Favorite Quotes from non-knife people.

My favorite question from non-knife people is "What happened to the hair on your left forearm?"

Knife people never have to ask that!
 
I can honestly say I've never had someone ask if they can have my knife... Requests to hold it and fondle it, sure. Those are normal. But... "Can I have that?" O.o
 
Grease said:
I can honestly say I've never had someone ask if they can have my knife... Requests to hold it and fondle it, sure. Those are normal. But... "Can I have that?" O.o
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I've only heard it once. I was showing a friend my collection and letting him fondle some and he asked for one. To this day I'm not sure if he was being sarcastic or something but I just smiled and laughed.
 
jasperjb said:
I absolutely hate that. Do I ask for your camera or phone? Nope. So don't ask for my knife!
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Haha, true. One guy I barely knew(before I learned not to show my knife), got hold of my knife after the friend I showed it to passed it to him. He asked me for the knife and wouldn't give it back and kept saying "common, I want it". I had to threaten the MOFO with bodily harm to get him to hand it back. He even had the nerve to call me a selfish bastard. I laughed in his face. It was a new ZT 301 too.
 
singularity35 said:
Haha, true. One guy I barely knew(before I learned not to show my knife), got hold of my knife after the friend I showed it to passed it to him. He asked me for the knife and wouldn't give it back and kept saying "common, I want it". I had to threaten the MOFO with bodily harm to get him to hand it back. He even had the nerve to call me a selfish bastard. I laughed in his face. It was a new ZT 301 too.
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Wow, what kind of knife was it?
 
Glad for the resurection of this thread. Just read thr last 20 pages, I've heard most of the above. My wife still asks "Do you have your pocketknife?" After 34 years. My standard reply was always "Do I have on my pants?" Well, Now that I've discovered this forum (and neck knives) sometimes I do even when I don't. I digress. Recently saw a local story about some jail inmates doing roadside cleanup work. One inmate/trustee was quoted as saying that when he found a large plastic jug in the ditch,he asked the deputy if he had his knife. Seems the deputy replied "Am I wearing pants?" and proceeds to hand the guy his slippy. Inmate slices jug up to put in garbage bag, returnes knife and returnes to trash duty. Wife finds this story funny. I say good ol boys rule.
 
singularity35 said:
Haha, true. One guy I barely knew(before I learned not to show my knife), got hold of my knife after the friend I showed it to passed it to him. He asked me for the knife and wouldn't give it back and kept saying "common, I want it". I had to threaten the MOFO with bodily harm to get him to hand it back. He even had the nerve to call me a selfish bastard. I laughed in his face. It was a new ZT 301 too.
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There are 2 things that you never part with.

Your guns, or your knives.
 
If I ever get asked "is that a knife?" my response will be "no, I carry a chunk of steel with two G-10 slabs on it, OH MY GOSH IT FOLDS!"
 
Brimstone said:
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."
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In all fairness I have a hard time telling the two standards apart myself since the SA I handled could only be opened by depressing the button on the side.
 
I got the "You spent HOW MUCH!?" response recently. It was an S30V Kershaw Leek. I honestly thought about telling them what I spent on my LionSteel SR-1 V just to see their reaction, but I thought better of it.

I also had a much more pleasant reaction when I waved my Endura for my girlfriend's dad. His response: "That is the single coolest way to open a knife I have ever seen. Can you tell me where to buy on?"
 
Not my favorite but the one that I get all the time is "Why does it need to be so big" about my Spyderco Salt..
 
"Are you gonna stab somebody with that thing?!" Said a coworker who was eyeing the tiny Victorinox Manager dangling from my keychain.

... and that was supposed to be my 'sheeple' friendly blade. *sigh*
 
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