Had my first "non knife" guy moment.

I'm a knife guy... and there has been a few occasions when a guy took out a knife near me and started using it for legitimate reasons and I was taken back. I can only imagine how a non-knife person would react, so perfectly normal IMO. One time a coworker asked to borrow my "machete"... he was referring to my Hinderer xm18 3.5.

Yea... it's all about perception.
 
Good thing you were not me... the sales guy probably would've run out of the store when I pulled the Bravo-1 from my belt!
 
My usual response to "why do you have that? don't you knives are dangerous?" is to usually say, "it's for utility. monkeys use their teeth, I use these. I am not evolutionary blessed?"
 
Next time someone asks "why do you have that?", cut the tip off their pencil and hand it back to them.
 
I was on a Megabus, and a lady across from me was struggling to open her new Bose headphones which came in a clamshell package. I offered her my Leatherman Skeletool Cx, even though I had my Para 2 in my backpack. It's all about presentation, nobody gave me a second glance, because city people think of Boy Scouts when the ysee a multi-tool. (Btw she almost slices through the headphone cables, I probably should have done it for her.)
 
stabman said:
Well, the thread has gone from a few simple thoughts about the reaction of the clerk to attacking each other, with all the "demonizing" and psychoanalysing" which was supposedly being heaped upon the original subject turned upon each other.

Which is lame.
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And don't forget the genocide talk. That's always a hoot.
 
fan of fanboys said:
A pencil? Are you going to be doing this in elementary schools? Or a hipster cafe on some guy doing a crossword puzzle?
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Have you never been to a construction site? They use pencils.
Have you ever worked with wood?
Pencils do still exist. NASA uses pencils. Blueprint-writers use pencils. Pencils will mark metal and most pens wont.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
 
bladeboss said:
Have you never been to a construction site? They use pencils.
Have you ever worked with wood?
Pencils do still exist. NASA uses pencils. Blueprint-writers use pencils. Pencils will mark metal and most pens wont.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
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Damn, looks like my sarcasm font didn't take. Will try again next time.

But thanks for educating me that all pencils have not been eradicated. Hope for all mankind lives on.
 
fan of fanboys said:
Damn, looks like my sarcasm font didn't take. Will try again next time.

But thanks for educating me that all pencils have not been eradicated. Hope for all mankind lives on.
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I thought you were being serious.
My apologies. :foot:
fan of fanboys said:
I am with you guys though. I prefer to judge and insult those who don't have the same standards and beliefs I have. :-)
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I got the sarcasm here, though. Found this pretty funny. :D
 
eb1118 said:
I was on a Megabus, and a lady across from me was struggling to open her new Bose headphones which came in a clamshell package. I offered her my Leatherman Skeletool Cx, .... I probably should have done it for her.)
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Yeah, you realized what you did. I very rarely let someone use my knives, and especially not a stranger whose capabilities I don't know. They could hurt themselves or damage the knife. I'll do the cutting for them myself.
As for the original post - - - when in a big city environment I'll use the small blade on a red SAK to cut open boxes & do other such tasks when out in public. And, I don't wave or flip open a folder under such conditions.
Yeah, I know the need to do this is silly . . . . but it is what it is.
 
I think the clerk would have jumped back if you would have whipped out a puppy in the same manner

In all seriousness, I think it all goes back to the gangster movies where the bad guy opens his switchblade with a menacing click. If you really think of it, when you flick open your knife it sounds a lot like that. I think it is all Hollywood's fault
 
I think he might have just backed up because he doesn't know how careful a stranger is with their knives. Might have been afraid their arm and knife would swing back as he was cutting or something.
 
onojoe said:
I think the clerk would have jumped back if you would have whipped out a puppy in the same manner

In all seriousness, I think it all goes back to the gangster movies where the bad guy opens his switchblade with a menacing click. If you really think of it, when you flick open your knife it sounds a lot like that. I think it is all Hollywood's fault
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You probably have a very good point there. Most people I've shown them to think an assisted opener is a 'switch blade' - and associate quick opening knives including those flicked opened or waved with switch blades.

The clerk coulda done worse, I suppose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlesvrKh82M
 
I don't really pay much attention to people unless I have to. That said, if I need to use my knife I take it out of my pocket, open it however I am able to at the time, use it, and put it back into my pocket. Much in the way most smokers light up outside without any regard to what the people around them think of their nasty habit, or the way a schoolboy takes a pencil (or a pen for the more modern people in this thread) writes his name on his paper and then puts it back up. It's just a tool. I usually have a gun tucked away in my belt that I actually do try to conceal, but a knife is nothing. I have noticed that since I started carrying a 4" semi-tactical folder (bad monkey) that it gets more attention, but it's usually people asking me what it is and where I got it.
 
onojoe said:
In all seriousness, I think it all goes back to the gangster movies where the bad guy opens his switchblade with a menacing click. If you really think of it, when you flick open your knife it sounds a lot like that. I think it is all Hollywood's fault
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This is kind of what I was getting at in my earlier post about flippers. The average domesticated person sees any kind of knife with a button or lever to "deploy" a blade as a weapon because Movie Bad Guy. Throw in that sound also and you've got a combo that gets the "Mommy!"(s) worked up pretty good. Slip joints don't really give that vibe thus the less reactions you see.
 
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