How annoying is it not to have a knife on you?

22-rimfire said:
Forgetting to carry a knife is right up there with forgetting the cell phone or wrist watch for me. It doesn't happen often and I most notice it around home when I am not real busy. Without fail, if there is no knife in my pocket, I need it. Just a walk away, but inconvenient.
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This is me, too. I always have a knife out of the house, but sometimes I'm downstairs in my bathrobe or something and need to open something in the laundry room or storage room and it's sitting up in my nightstand.
 
This is also why my jammies (actually just an old shirt and a pair of cheap elastic-waisted shorts) has a either a pingo, rough rider hawkbill, or a Boker AK auto kicking around in one of the pockets. I always seem to need one for -something- even at night and at home, and it's annoying to have to walk across the house to my bedroom to grab one.
 
Like I just walked into a club buck nude.
 
Hi! It happens to me sometimes to consciously leave from home without a knife, specially when travelling across EU and Asia and if I want to have carry-on luggage only. I have to admit I can still live and perform my working duties :D but "psychologically" I feel the pain :D! I really search my pocket several times during the day... yeah, call it muscle memory or something but I miss my sharpies quite much in those occasions...
 
Had to take a commercial flight a few years ago. I put my Case Trapper in my checked luggage. As soon as I landed I retrieved my luggage, opened it and put the knife back in my pocket. Did the same on my return trip. That was the only times I ever went without carrying knife.
 
I keep knives everywhere. Keychain, work bag, wifes bag, truck, work truck, wifes car, diaper bag. So the worst thing would be not carrying one of my "good" knives.
 
I used to make much out of not having a blade on me than I do now. In 2013, my family, my in laws, and my wife's sister and her family vacationed in the Florida Keys for about a week. We all took carry on, so no sharps. We stopped by a Target on the way down from the airport to stock up on provisions, and I grabbed a SAK from the sporting goods aisle. It was used maybe twice the entire trip, both times at the rental property which had a pair of scissors. I left the SAK in the bits and bobs drawer. Really, a waste of $23.

Nowadays, it's a minor nuisance. I am a desk jockey, and all I can use one for at work is to break the straps on a box of printer paper. I have a paring knife in my lunch bag for food. I carry one more because I like to, than out of necessity. I am flying up to Montreal next week to visit one of my company's licensors. I'll be without a knife for 3 days, before returning Thursday night and driving out to Sequoia National Park 7/8. Cranking out some purchase orders on a laptop, vis a vis their Buyer, I don't foresee much need of a knife. Plus, I'll get to play with a couple while out camping. I fly a few times per year, most often to visit family in the Bay Area or on vacation, and I just do without.
 
If my knife isn't in my pocket it's somewhere nearby, on my nightstand or desk at work. During work if I'm in the field it's always on me. Guess the only time it's not within reach is when I'm on an airplane....at that point it's in my suitcase awaiting touch down. Oh ya, and I don't take it into Mexico when I occasionally go because Tijuana jail is worse than hell.


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Not to take this too far off topic but knife laws really are stupid. I think in Britain the knife laws are probably in part to protect LEO because they're not allowed to carry much in the way of protective gear. If a psycho pulled a folding knife on a Bobby he'd probably have to turn and run.


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I've been carrying for more than 60 years. Always have one in the pocket, unless I'm going to some government function. Usually carry a sub 3" in my right pocket, then another 3.5"+ in my go bag. Yes I've gone home when discovering neither came along for the ride. Without a knife I feel, well, incomplete.
 
I work for an airline (16 years now) and back in 2001, before the 911 attacks, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I flew out on our first date to Reno to see the rodeo and stay there a couple days..July 2001 if I recall.
I flew on our airline with my knife in my pocket!
It was awesome!
Gone are those days.
 
Picked up a ceramic blade for those places that frown on shiny metal objects. So far so good.
 
I have a SAK Rambler on my keychain and knives stashed all over everywhere I go (work, home, etc.) so it would be hard to even find myself in that kind of scenario. Plus, if my pants are on, there's a knife in my pocket. ;)
 
I have a SOG key knife on my keychain. My house and car keys are on that so I'm never really without a knife.
Sharp as hell too! $8 at Walmart.
 
Always a "Baby SAK" in front pocket, something bigger in the back. Today an SMF.
 
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