Forgive me.

[Woodrow F Call]

It's been a long time since I have lost a pocket knife. I don't think I have lost one since I was a kid. I was at the wife's grandmother's house and had my Chestnut Case Large Stockman and Peanut.... each in their own little pocket in my pair of overalls. I used the nut to cut up some tomatoes at dinner, put it back in it's place.

The overalls are Round House and have two great little pockets that each hold a knife. Under normal circumstances, they are awesome. Getting ready for bed, I took the overalls off and set them down. The next morning, I put them back on. A little while later, I notice the nut is missing. I tear the room apart, I check my bag, under the bed, in the sheets, the path to the truck.... all over multiple times. No nut.

I felt disappointed.... I reflected on it. The knife was a good little knife, but easily replaceable as it was a newer model. It had a off center blade and a little gap anyways. It was easily replaceable. It wasn't the knife that I was disappointed about, it was the fact that I had gone so long without losing a knife. I guess we all need to be humbled every now and then.

Keep an eye on your knives folks! They can grow legs, even when we get older!!!

The pair, now the Peanut is MIA.

 

[Modoc ED]

So what's to forgive? Surely you're not done looking for it. Go back to the wife's grandmother's house and give it a look. If you can't make it back soon, ask granny to take a look. You said you checked the path to the truck but you didn't say you looked in the truck. Go over that truck a few times. It'll turn up. They mostly do and at a time and place you'd never expect them to turn up.

 

[Woodrow F Call]

So what's to forgive? Surely you're not done looking for it. Go back to the wife's grandmother's house and give it a look. If you can't make it back soon, ask granny to take a look. You said you checked the path to the truck but you didn't say you looked in the truck. Go over that truck a few times. It'll turn up. They mostly do and at a time and place you'd never expect them to turn up.

I'm not done, but I did look very hard. Truck too...... I might be back up that way this weekend.... Of course I'll look again.

 

[jackknife]

First thing, Woodrow, sit down and brace yourself. The missing peanut may not be your carelessness. Did you hear anything suspicious in the night?

Unconfirmed rumors have reached The Cult Of The Peanut headquarters that the Cult Of The Texas jack, led by the infamous Captain Rsmith_77, have begun a guerrilla operation against the Cult Of the Peanut. Kidnappings are a beginning of the war. Again, these rumors have not been confirmed, but all peanuts have been advised to travel in packs. Operation Piraña, the counter offensive, is in it's planning stages for now, so caution is advised. Further bulletins will be issued as reports from the field are examined.

Carl, Grand High Muckba (ret).

 

[SAK Guy]

Woodrow, check the Head. Overalls are bad about leaving stuff around the john. The bib front can easily get turned upside down while you're reading your fav hunting magazine......

 

[Rsmith_77]

texas jackers DONT make suspicious noises...
we ninjas!!

did you see what i just did?
no??

exactly! ninja!!

 

[RRaconteur]

"Has no one condemned you?...... Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more."

Just something I read somewhere. Seemed appropriate. 😀


Michael

 

[Woodrow F Call]

Lulz.

 

[Ernie1980]

Good luck in your search! In my experience, the best way to get a missing tool to show back up is to buy its replacement:thumbup:

 

[N.E.Tim]

Woodrow,
Not to make light of the situation but,
Someone will ask You where You left it. Heck, if You knew that, it wouldn't be lost.
But seriously, I hope You find it.

 

[arizonaranchman]

So it's in the house? You last had it at home? If so then it's there someplace.

What a sickening feeling - a couple months ago I thought I'd lost my beloved yellow Peanut. I'd been out places that day, then when I got home it wasn't in my watch pocket!! I had changed my pants when I got home so figured it tumbled out in the bedroom. I looked all over and NOTHING! I was heart-broken! I frantically called the stores I'd been at, hoping someone had found it - nope. I searched around the bedroom floor several times. About the fourth time it was found laying sort of under something a few feet over from where I would have thought to check! OMG was I relieved.

So I know that sickening feeling of losing a favorite knife. My experience thankfully ended happily, but wow was that a wake-up call. It had indeed tumbled out of my pocket when changing pants, but it tumbled much further than I would have guessed.

I hope it turns up!

 

[Primble]

Good luck in your search! In my experience, the best way to get a missing tool to show back up is to buy its replacement:thumbup:

Best advice yet - in my opinion! :thumbup:

Woodrow - I sure hope you find it - I know it is a pride kind of thing with me - to not lose a knife!

 

[Chris Larrikin]

If it is indeed gone perhaps you should consider yourself fortunate. You may have just become that most wondrous instrument of fate that allows another the pure joy of finding a knife. I still remember the first knife I found; small, lightly corroded with a broken tip. I was a young child. It was at the time the best thing in the whole world.
So congratulations; thanks to you some day someone else might experience that feeling.

...not going to stop you looking for it though is it? Nah didn't think so

 

[colubrid]

Man you are lucky you did not lose it in a public place.. There is still hope!


It has been almost 20 years that I left my candy stripe peanut with file work in a Pancake house restaurant table. I went back the next day and of course nobody turned it in.

The fact that I am writing about today shows how much it still bothers me. ..(Gosh I wish I could have gotten that knife back!). At least you have a chance to find yours! I was never was able to replace that Peanut cause it was a candy stripe with file work and it was centered. Made me give up on Peanuts for 20 years . In those 20 years I tried every type of production and custom knife but none made me feel like that one Peanut . It was like the one great dog that died and never could be replaced.
Recently I have been buying all different types of Peanut colors and handles to fulfill that one peanut. But nothing will ever bring that special one back.

So you are lucky for two reasons. Yours was replacable and #2 you probably will find it!

 

[Lemmy Caution]

Sorry you lost your nut. Will likely turn up. Thought I lost an opinel 6 I had modded and liked much. A week later for whatever reason I was rearranging the cardboard recycling and there it was in the mix. It had slid out of my shirt pocket apparently as I bent over the bin a week earlier. Had I not looked I would have surely thrown it out with the rest of the trash.

 

[Bob Warfield]

It's been my experience over the years that every time something is lost it is ALWAYS in the last place you look!
Good luck - Bob

 

[meako]

GOOD GRIEF!
My Dear Fellow do not despair.
From your statement I have deduced that it never left Grandmas House and she is as we speak putting it in the dishwasher to get it nice and clean.

 

[davek14]

Son, we're not mad, just disappointed. I don't feel your mother and I need to do anything. Some things bring their own punishment and I think you've learned your lesson.

Seriously, it seems lost knives turn up somewhat often. Let it go and if it does it will be like a free knife.

Hate it when that happens.

 

[incision]

It stinks when something is lost. Hope you find them, but if not, like you said they are easily replaced. Maybe when you find them it will be one of those "How did it get there" moments. Recently when I went to bed I put two Case knives on my night stand. The next morning they were gone. I saw a trail of broken delrin in the living room. The thief dog put them under a chair cushion. Now I have a mosaic delrin trapper. The bone stockman was just slobbery. Guess he buried that one for later. Does Granny have a dog?

 

[Ryan Sumner]

I have lost a few of knives in the past, but I am still grateful of the one I found

I lost it at the vineyard where I work, and it was out in the rain for over 48 hours, but I eventually found it in the place I hadn't been looking, and was overjoyed as this Charlow is my favorite knife.


I also lost my favorite knife (before I got the Charlow) which was a swissbianco pioneer/soldier (basically a red pioneer with no lanyard ring) but I never found it. I was out at garage sales, and I had just bought 2 bookshelves, but when I reached for it to use the screwdriver, I noticed it was gone. No chance of finding it, as we had been to about 6 or 7 other garage sales that morning.


I hope your peanut shows up, I know how frustrating it can be not being able to find something that you've lost.