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That's right, a new knife came home with me today. I dont say I bought it, oh and the wife is MAD...
but let me explain. Today I took the wife to her mothers house for a visit, and as it inevitably does, conversation comes around to stuff her mother needed done around the house. So i changed a few light bulbs, pulled the string to turn the fans off so they don't turn on when she turns on the light. So my wife suggests I run to Ace Hardware and get some bead chains and put them up so she can reach them.
So I run off to the Ace Hardware store, find what I need and the guy goes to get something to cut the bead chain to length, so I wandered over to their Case Display to look around. Now I have had my eye on a slimline trapper for a few weeks now and when another employee asks me if i want to check it out, I said sure. When i got the slimline trapper I noticed that the blade was rubbing the liner and it was a stainless model, so I put it back. But then I noticed a case mini-trapper with yellow handles and CV blades....
So i pick it up and check it out, its of course beautiful. But it was a few more dollars than I was gonna spend (foreshadowing the wife is MAD part). So i attempt to put the blades back in the same position it was when i picked it up, now I didn't know the mini-trappers had half-stops and I don't currently own any knives with half-stops so while trying to adjust the spey blade it slams shut on my middle finger and I start bleeding, at the same time I jerk my hand back and cut my thumb on the still open clip blade...
So there I am bleeding from two different cuts, literally the blood running down my finger on the the knife. The store employees don't have any band aids, so he takes a clean cloth and we cut it to wrap around my two bloody fingers. Now at this point, I have bled all over the stores knife and feeling pretty stupid. Personally I thought it was fate, that knife CHOSE me. So I tell them, since i bled on it, I probably should buy it. So I picked that up along with my bead chains for my mother-in-law.
Now, I get back to my mother-in-laws house and walk in, they immediately noticed this big cloth wrapped around two of my fingers, so I proceed to tell them the story..."What had happened was...."
To top all of this off, as I am telling the story my mother-in-law grabs a couple of band-aids and I start unwrapping the cloth, the cuts are so clean they have stopped bleeding and are already starting to close, leading my wife to think I made the entire story up....
Anyways, that's my story on how I was chosen by my new knife...I hope she ends up worth it (the knife, not the wife
)
I hope someone gets a kick out of it
Ryan
but let me explain. Today I took the wife to her mothers house for a visit, and as it inevitably does, conversation comes around to stuff her mother needed done around the house. So i changed a few light bulbs, pulled the string to turn the fans off so they don't turn on when she turns on the light. So my wife suggests I run to Ace Hardware and get some bead chains and put them up so she can reach them.
So I run off to the Ace Hardware store, find what I need and the guy goes to get something to cut the bead chain to length, so I wandered over to their Case Display to look around. Now I have had my eye on a slimline trapper for a few weeks now and when another employee asks me if i want to check it out, I said sure. When i got the slimline trapper I noticed that the blade was rubbing the liner and it was a stainless model, so I put it back. But then I noticed a case mini-trapper with yellow handles and CV blades....
So i pick it up and check it out, its of course beautiful. But it was a few more dollars than I was gonna spend (foreshadowing the wife is MAD part). So i attempt to put the blades back in the same position it was when i picked it up, now I didn't know the mini-trappers had half-stops and I don't currently own any knives with half-stops so while trying to adjust the spey blade it slams shut on my middle finger and I start bleeding, at the same time I jerk my hand back and cut my thumb on the still open clip blade...
So there I am bleeding from two different cuts, literally the blood running down my finger on the the knife. The store employees don't have any band aids, so he takes a clean cloth and we cut it to wrap around my two bloody fingers. Now at this point, I have bled all over the stores knife and feeling pretty stupid. Personally I thought it was fate, that knife CHOSE me. So I tell them, since i bled on it, I probably should buy it. So I picked that up along with my bead chains for my mother-in-law.
Now, I get back to my mother-in-laws house and walk in, they immediately noticed this big cloth wrapped around two of my fingers, so I proceed to tell them the story..."What had happened was...."
To top all of this off, as I am telling the story my mother-in-law grabs a couple of band-aids and I start unwrapping the cloth, the cuts are so clean they have stopped bleeding and are already starting to close, leading my wife to think I made the entire story up....
Anyways, that's my story on how I was chosen by my new knife...I hope she ends up worth it (the knife, not the wife
) I hope someone gets a kick out of it
Ryan
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