I don't get it...

Tell her that her nervousness makes you nervous. And that you only use your knife when you get nervous
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Actually, I like DonL's reply about kitchen knives, too!

Glen
 
Sometimes you get a better reaction. One day I was casually talking to my boss when he asked to see my pocket knife. He figured you could tell a real engineer by the knife he carried. He thought my Victorinox SAK with razor sharp locking 3.25" blade and half-dozen other useful tools to be appropriate. The rest of the conversation was about possible businesses we could start.
 
Originally posted by Steve6:
With some folks, logic is only an irritant which interferes with their true objective: to annoy everyone around them.
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LMSAO! Steve, that is priceless. Can I quote you on that? *sigh* That made my day.
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Don LeHue

The pen is mightier than the sword...outside of arm's reach. Modify radius accordingly for rifle.
 
You've had an encounter with the cave people. They use blunt objects like rocks and keys to open packages and mail. DOn't try and understand them, you'll drive yourself crazy.
It does seem strange that people are as bothered by multi tools as knives but they are. I have fun with it.I carry a gerber daily and you can scare the **** out of people by flicking it open. I was just walking around at the county fair once and began flicking it open and closed, bad habits are hard to break
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Everytime it snapped I was suddenly at least 10 ft away from anyone who had been around me
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What bothers me is that people act like I shouldn't have a knife. They aren't comfortable using one or carrying one, and for some reason that means I can't have one either.
The worst is when I loan someone my delica and they take it with 2 fingers and cringe. Then I get the " boy is that thing wicked, why do have that?" The idiots forgot that they just asked to use it.What the hell did you want to borrow it for? Thats why I have it.
Wow, I guess this stuff bothers me more than I thought. We need to have a support forum for those who've encountered the cave people. Without this realease we may all go crazy.

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Fix it right the first time, use Baling Wire !
 
Edenver: "Tools make me nervous" hahahahahahaha!!!!! With all the advances in technology the world still finds ways to get stupider. She must have nightmares about being trapped in Sears, being cruelly attack by those nasty drill bits
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. Forget about her, just laugh it off then put it behind you. No use in obsessing about someone who doesn't want to have thier mind confused with reality.

And just one general observation. Just "knife" by itself is a four letter word to your average Joe/Jane. It you say Bowie Knife, people think of the old west, if you say Folding Knife people think of a SAK, when you say Skinning Knife people will think of your average hunter out camping. But yet if you just say the word Knife, even though it means exactly what the above few terms mean, you'll get weird looks and people who are nervous to be around you. At least thats how it is everywhere I've been.

Sincerely,
Adam

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Well, I ran into her again today... The funny thing is that she was looking for something to open a thick plastic bag with... I saw her look my way, then rummage through some items. I ended up using the EVIL TOOL- she backed up, I kid younot, then mumbled her thanks.

Erik
 
LOL!

I wish criminals were so easily intimidated!

"So the Crackhead started for me swinging his baseball bat at full force, I calmly reached into my pocket and flipped open my Leatherman Micra. He approached a little more hesitantly at the sight of my tool, but did not back down until I opened the knife attachment! Man! He could not get out of there fast enough after seeing the gleam of the blade!"

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Later,
John

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DonL,

I'm glad you got a laugh from my post, quote all you want.

We had the same problem as edenver at the office after several folks started playing with their automatic knives. One of the admin people said that the auto knives made her nervous. Odd when you consider that all of us carry semi-auto pistols and a lot of us have select fire long guns.

Seems I read a post a while back about people being more afraid of being cut than shot.
 
Automantic,
Your micra scenario could actually happen. Haven't you seen Vampire Gerbil's micra for self defense page? He shows oyu how to take an intimidating stance that will scare your attacker, and how to use the micra as a deadly weapon if the atacker doesn'tleave
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In the spirit of these posts, I have gone to work, and educated someone.

"Does anyone have something that will open this box?" Asks my boss.
"Here." I reply, handing him my AFCK
"You know we don't allow weapons at work," hs says, looking at the knife, trying to figure out how to operate a liner lock after using it.
"That's great, did I just hand you a pistol?" I ask
"You could kill someone with this, it's a weapon, it has no place here." He says, handing it back, open I might add.
"OK," I reply, putting it in my pocket and walking into his office. I go to his desk and remove his scissors, and all of his pens and pencils. I walk over to him and hand them to him. "In that case, you may want to keep those in your truck, they're not allowed at work."
"What are you talking about? These are writing implements, not weapons." he says
"No, they are weapons, you said it yourself, you could kill someone with them." I say.
"How are you going to kill someone with a pencil (I know! I couldn't believe it either.)?" He asks.
"Observe," I say, taking a pencil from him. "would you say that sheetrock is tougher than say, the skin on your neck?" I ask
"Sure, but I don't......" he cut off as I drove the pencil a good three inches into the wall.
"Now, wouldn't you agree that a weapon is defined by how it is used, not what TV says it is?" I ask, leaving him staring at the pencil jammed into the wall.
"Uh, sure. I guess." He kinda stuttered out.
"Thank you for leaving my tools where they belong, in my pocket." I said, and walked back out into the warehouse.


So now all the guys at work call me Rambo, and stuff like that. But, Bill (my boss) has never said another thing about employees bringing knives to work. I did however have to fix the hole I put in the wall
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We should not allow such lies to persist! They are calling our tools "weapons"! This CANNOT continue! Next time someone calls your knife a "weapon", kill him/her! That way, A) the lie becomes true, and B) We eliminate one of the evil sheeple!

I'm imagining E's scenario... the look on the woman's face, her concerned brow, her tight-assed walk. God I hate these people! At least some of the aforementioned individuals were not beyond hope. I'm glad some of you have more tact in such sitautions than I do. I usually DO say something about being able to kill someone with anything. I just wish we could slap some sense into these fools.

Howie
 
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