Funny things non knife people say.

grownstar said:
My oldest brother needed a package opened the other day, so I busted out my Kershaw Cryo and went to work. He asked if he could see it, and after a minute or so confessed he didn't know how on earth he would close it. I took it from his hands and showed him how. He then told me, "Sorry we can't all be as gangster as you." Haha, I didn't know gangsters carried around Hinderer-designed framelocks!
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Only the cool ones :)
 
I'll be watching a movie with friends "You like knives, what kind is that one?"
 
kjos said:
I'll be watching a movie with friends "You like knives, what kind is that one?"
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Don't laugh, I get the gun equivalent of that question a lot, and it's out of genuine curiosity. I get asked what kind of gun is being seen, and when I answer, I point out when it's being used incorrectly.
 
BetrayalSpree said:
Hahaha that's the funniest thing I've seen so far!
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But if your knife isn't obsolete in six months, how do you convince your spouse that you need another one? You can only do the "If I get to bu a new knife, you get to buy a new purse/pair of shoes/whatever" thing so long.
 
"If I have to understand, don't bother to explain" This blows the mind of the "Why do you have that?" crowd. Sort of the reverse-double-whammy of the classic "If I have to explain it you wouldn't understand" Also a sideways slipping slope towards the Eastern "Those who speak do not know; those who know do not speak."
 
Just the other day I watched my brother, who is a mechanical engineer and quite possibly one of the smartest overall people I know try to figure out how to close a kershaw injection liner lock. He has used my lock backs and frame locks but said he was thrown off when he didn't see a cutout on the lock side. Ended up having to use two hands to get it closed. I was also asked by a coworker why I would ever buy such an expensive knife when a cheaper one would work and why I needed more than one. This is coming from a guy who owns two MacBook pros, two iPads an two blackberry play books
 
Sadly some people don't understand basic steel chemistry.

Maybe the next time try explaining how manufacturing process being more labor intensive, and the price of the end result is to pay the wages of those who used their hands in its construction, rather than simply telling a machine what to do.
 
LOL... I get asked most of the common questions. But after a weekend sharpening session on a bunch of knives I usually get asked "What happened to the hair on your left arm?"
 
Someone asks to see my knife. I hold it out for them to take it. Apparently scared to actually touch it, they just stare at it while its still in my hand. Having never touched the knife or seen the knife cut anything, the person says "DANG, that thing is SHARP!!!"

About a week later, the same guy asks to see it again. This time he actually takes it in his hand. And after what I can only imagine he saw on TV or something, he runs his thumb down the blade. Boy! It cut him good, too. After realizing he had cut himself. He gave me this awful look like I had pulled out my knife, grabbed him by the hand, and sliced his thumb wide open. I couldn't help but crack a big smile, then I said, "Well, you said it was sharp. I guess you wanted to make sure, huh?"
 
100% on this. I was visiting a friend and his wife in San Diego earlier this year. He was aghast that I picked up a $25 Victorinox at an outfitters before heading our for a day's hike and visit to the Sonora desert (having flown in to visit them, I had forgot to pack a knife in my baggage). He was just aghast an couldn't stop mentioning the $25 I had wasted, but they ate every meal on my visit out but one, this being a practice they engage in frequently as a reward for working hard. And I never saw them tuck into a meal that was less than $40 for the pair (except breakfast). I reckon they spent about $250 that week eating in restaurants when they could have made meals at home. I don't criticize you understand, its just that I might spend a small amount or a large amount on a quality knife, watch or other useful item of daily use. That item lasts so much longer than a meal and booze that is gone the moment you stagger out of the restaurant. I'd rather have my knife/watch/useful item of daily use and make my own meals where the cook isn't dropping marihuana ash into my appetizer.
 
Just had a lady at my church ask me if I was legally allowed to carry my Leatherman Juice S2 when I pulled it out to help them open a stuck bathroom stall door. Yes…..she was serious!!
 
NeilB said:
Actually, there is. They are useless in terms of actual security at an airport (the TSA has failed every test since their inception), but they do intimidate the crap out of the regular public. That can be useful, if you happen to be a highly authoritarian person in power. But, I am digressing into politics, which is nasty. I will go shower right after this.

My girlfriend is a knife person. I have been ordering one or two a week. I save up the package throughout the week and on Tuesday nights we sit down (she sits on my knee) and she gleefully opens each one. She get to be the first to fondle it; the first to open it, flip it, whatever. She always has this smile on her face that makes it wonderful for me. She has opened my ZT0600, 0801, 0550, 0560CBCF, Northfield #54 whittler, Kershaw Wild Turkey and Double Cross (the discontinued damascus versions), Damascus Leek, Spyderco Matriarch, Lil Matriarch, Centofante Memory, and others. She gets a kick out of it and it's something we share together. I usually get many kisses after.

Still, you should have seen her smile when she pulled out the Case Equestrian I got for her (she's a horse person). That knife is a piece of art, really, or at least the one I got. Wow. It also sharpens up incredibly well once you reprofile the edges a bit (nothing extreme, 25 degrees--50 total included angle). She loves that thing! :)

I also keep her work knives sharp. She usually carries a Delica and every week, I make sure it's shaving sharp. Cutting bandages will dull a blade, even a VG-10 blade, surprisingly fast. I even sharpen her boss' knife (a Spyderco Dragonfly--sweet little knife).

So, it's not all "sheeple" and knife-haters out there. There's hope.
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Where do you find a girl like that I want one!
 
This one made me smile:

I was working the other day and overheard a couple coworkers talking about me in the next room. One worker asked the other guy if he had a knife on him he could use. The other guy said no, laughed and said, where is Scott (me) when you need him. The other guy replied laughing, I know, for as much as we joke about him and his knives, we are always asking him to use them.

I haven't told them that I overheard the whole conversation but it made my day:)
 
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