how has your SAK saved you?

I had one of those "invisible" metal slivers that I could feel, but not see. It was driving me nuts. I asked my son, whose vision is far superior to mine because of age, to see if he could find the sliver. He found it and asked for a pair of tweezers, which of course were on my SAK. Had it out in about 2 seconds.
 
when I started to carry a knife, a small SAK classic was my choice.
One day I was back from work and had to go for a number 2. I ran to the restroom and when I shut the door closed, the locking mecanism fell out of its place. The problem is... it fell outside. So I got stuck inside de room. Fortunatly I had access to a flathead screwdriver (SAK classic). Then from the inside I unscrewed the coverplate and removed the remaining parts of the handle. I got out to fresh air in a few second. Thank you SAK
 
I used the scissors on my classic the other day to trim an embarrassing nose hair. I was able to comfortably talk with customers the rest of the day. Try doing that with your tactical folder.
 
I gave my wife a Vic Classic a while back (she loves it!) now she carries a purple Delica 4 too. So the SAK saves my day everyday because now she doesn't think say "another knife?" anymore. :D
 
We were shooting firearms on a very cold January day. We had some plywood, nails and hammer to hang the targets. The problem was that the plywood was so frozen the nails would not drive into the wood, they just kept bouncing off. Now it didn't help that it was a smaller hammer and the wood was warped making it hard to get it solid on the ground to really a good hit. Getting frozen hands and frustrated I pulled out the awl on my alox pioneer and promptly dug a hole through the plywood surprisingly easy. The whole was snug enough to push the nail through and hang the targets(yes, I need to get a damn staple gun:) One of my favorite tool now! Oh, the bottle opener routinely opens Coronas for me as well!
 
Today I used the flat head on my Alox Farmer to adjust the idle speed on my Stihl 90 String trimmer.
 
I was in the grocery today, and the lead broke on the pencil I was using to mark things off the list.

Always having a cool head in a crisis, I was able to pull out my Vic Classic wearing translucent sapphire, and I quickly sharpened the pencil. The thin, scalpel-like blade was perfect for the job. Didn't want to whip out a ffg Spyderco in the cereal aisle. The shopping was completed, insuring that I will stay fat for one more day.

None of you losers can top that crisis. No way.

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My 3 year old grandson locked us out of the bathroom at a huge motel complex in the WI Dells. I could have called the desk but what fun is that. I whittled down the plastic cap of a cheap stick pen and had the door opened in no time.
 
The list is too long. I have endless stories of my Soldier. I'd write more right now, but the bottle opener has opened too many bottle for me to write something coherent. I'll just say that fencing a yard, laying laminate flooring, modifying a birdfeeder, fixing a circuit breaker, and prying the meat from a coconut are all things the Soldier has done for me this weekend.
 
My SAK helped me repair a pulse oximeter (a device that monitors the oxygen saturation in a person's blood stream). One of the batteries was not making contact with the positive pole on the device, the coil on the positive end was stretched out kinda of like the "springy" end of the negative contact. The battery would either lay on top of the contact, or just pop out because of the tension. After a few curse words, I grabbed the tweezers out of my Vic Compact, place the battery in the casing and used the tweezers to pull the metal on the positive contact up in between the battery and casing so it would operate.

A few hours later one of my fellow employees was grasping at her hand trying to get a splinter out, again out came the tweezers much to her relief.
 
In the decades I have carried SAKs, I remember only one "save the day" incident. My father locked himself out of his room once and had to get in fast with no time to wait for someone with a key. Fortunately, I was able to activate the simple lock mechanism with a Swisschamp pen and all ended well :D .

Very occasionally, my SAK has provided a corkscrew, bottle opener or another implement at a gathering where the dedicated tool had been forgotten or misplaced, but let's face it, there are alternatives to both. Other than that, if I am wearing pants, there's a SAK on board, sometimes even in gym shorts or terry cloth wrap, used every day for all sorts of home and away tasks.

OTOH, my Leatherman tools have "saved the day" several times for real, once involving self defense, but this thread is about SAKs ;) .
 
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I was at a LoverBoy concert once; and my girlfriend's friend had a bottle of wine she wanted to open, corkscrew on my camper did that job.

The last two times I was at my parent's house, my dad got a splinter or a sliver in his finger and couldn't find his tweezers, the classic on my key chain took care of that both times. The tweezers really work quite well on these Vics.
 
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