Handing down a knife

[wintermute]

This was originally posted in the General forum regarding my wife's penchant for destroying kitchen knives. It's about my daughter and the knife I had for 24 years that I handed down to her a few months ago (figure'd y'all might get a kick out of it - and it shows hope for the future)...

let me brag about my 10 year old daughter. I recently handed my old Old Timer middleman jack down to her. She has annoyed her mother to no end with that thing (in a good way). When I first gave it to her, she kept practicing safe opening and closing. She kept it safe in a old jewelry drawer thingy until it was time to re-do the kids' room and my wife threw the drawer out (empty) and put the knife on a bookcase shelf. To which, my daughter got mad at my wife for putting the knife in such a crappy spot, then moved it to a safe somewhat clean drawer in her night stand. The thing that drives my wife the most nuts is that after my daughter has used the knife heavily, she's straight to the cabinet under the sink to grab the mineral oil!

Now, she hasn't dulled the blades yet, so I haven't shown her how to sharpen it, but I have shown her how to strop it on the back of her notepad.

 

[Warriorsociologist]

The thing that drives my wife the most nuts is that after my daughter has used the knife heavily, she's straight to the cabinet under the sink to grab the mineral oil!

LOL. Oh, if I could just get mine so trained. Good job indeed!

 

[BJE]

Sounds like you have a good kid there. I am sure if your wife got into knives as much as we do, she would be tickled also. BTW: good choice for a first knife, my first knife was an old timer middleman and I still have a soft spot for that knife today, it was my most prized possesion at the time.

 

[J33psru1e]

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[wintermute]

Huh, I put this in the traditional forum, but for some reason it was moved to general...