I forgot my knife tonight!!

Well, I sure hope that you don't need it tonight!
For the last 20something years, I've had SOME sort of edged tool on my person whenever I left the house. On Memorial Day, while swimming at a friends, an innebriated aquaintence attacked me with a large steel pipe. Luckily, I was in control of my facilities (and outweighed him by 100 pounds or so), and the incident led to no harm to myself. But looking back, I sure would have felt more secure with that option!

My other "backups" consist of a Leatherman WAVE (2 blades handy) and a Spiderco Rescue mounted on my sun visor (Guess I heard one too many stories of people getting trapped by their seatbelts in MVA's, and wanted to supple a future good samatitan.


Oh, and I keep one of those handy, wallet size survival tools behind my badge in its wallet.

 

[swball]

I've done "the pat" now for months, after losing my trusty Endura and "misplacing" my Calypso Jr. and Endura II for weeks at a time (my place of employment is a veritable black hole). I now do the pat down every 5 minutes or so. It's healthy to be paranoid.

And for the record, I've NEVER forgotten a knife at home. Even when I forget my wallet. And if it ever happens, I've got my trusty Olfa knife at work.

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Shawn
"Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless."



[This message has been edited by swball (edited 17 August 1999).]

 

[sing]

I'm with Krom in having forgotten everything but the knife. But just in case, I keep a knife in the work bag, one in the office desk and another in the car. Now I have just have stash some in strategic points along my route to work.

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[Hoss]

I always put my knife with my keys when I get home from work. I've forgotten my knife, but then that means I've forgotten my keys, therefore I can't leave until I get both. Crazy but it works for me.