I might have created a monster.

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My wife has mostly looked upon my facination with knives and flashlights and stuff as one of my boy obsessions and hasn't really had a lot of interest in it herself. I have bought her a couple little pink knives (Spyderco Jester and Case Bubba Gum Tiny Texas Toothpick) and a couple lights of her own (Surefire G2Z Yellow and Inova X5T) but she never seemed all that interested until lately. In the last couple months she seems to be carrying her G2 and her Jester in her purse all the time and has even whipped out the Surefire to show off a couple times when we were visiting other folks.

Then the other night she asked what knife I was carrying and I showed her my Benchmade 941D2CF and she started talking about how cool it was and how much she liked the Axis lock as it was easier to use than her Jester's lock back. Now this afternoon we were sitting in my office and she noticed my 2004 Surfire catalogue and rolls her eyes back and gives me one of those looks and says, "don't you have enough flashlights already?". But she picks it up and starts browsing through it. When she gets to the E2D and reads the bit about how useful they can be as a self defense weapon, she perks up and says, "That's cool, I'd carry one of those, how much are they?". I told her and she didn't blink an eye as she'd bought me the L4 that was on my Christmas list so she already had an idea about the price of admission. I asked her twice if she was serious and she seems dead serious.

On the one hand, these developments make me happy as you might imagine, but on the other hand I'm starting to think this might get really expensive if she starts to really get into this stuff.

So do they make a Pink Griptilian and who's got the best deal on E2Ds?

John
 
tacticalwarehouse or tadgear
but SF prices are full retail only b/c of surefire's lousy policy
 
No pink Griptilians, durn it. But what I often do when I can't get something in pink, and what I did when I decided to get a Mini Grip, is go blue. And even though I'm not fond of the color green, the Mini Grip in green doesn't look half-bad to me. That, in addition to the yellow and purple. A rainbow of knives, those Griptilians are.
 
OilMan said:
She's cheating on you man.;-) Mis-direction and whatnot.

I wish my wife would cheat on me.. that way I could get some free time and she could nag someone else.
 
MelancholyMutt said:
I wish my wife would cheat on me.. that way I could get some free time and she could nag someone else.

Geez Mutt, you haven't been married that long! ;)
 
My girlfriend carries a leatherman juice s2, a meerkat and a spider web pattern laser engraved SS cricket (that she actually purchased herself).
She really likes the looks of the Spyderco line and likes to go to Gander Mountain and look at the knives and stuff. I can't think of any reason to complain...
Maybe you two can share knives in a rotation type deal.

Neko2
 
SHARE KNIVES ??? What are you, a PERVERT ??? :rolleyes: I like knives for stabbing, she likes knives for slashing. It would never work. :grumpy:
 
Esav Benyamin said:
SHARE KNIVES ??? What are you, a PERVERT ??? :rolleyes: I like knives for stabbing, she likes knives for slashing. It would never work. :grumpy:

Akin to needle sharing....almost!

Larry S.
 
I had a very strange experience with my wife, as well. The other night, we were sitting on the couch watching TV. Well, I was watching TV, and she was on the phone with her sister. Anyway, I had my MT LCC D/A on the couch beside me, and I got up to get something, and when I come back she had that thing in her hands, and was absent-mindedly opening it, and closing it. Now, you have to know that she is VERY afraid of my knives, in general, and is paranoid that my kids will someday open an artery, or something, so to see her handling, and even OPENING one of my knives was a very strange occurance. Now, the LCC is not a small knife, so I was totally shocked. Funny thing is, I don't think she even realized what she was doing, because she was totally engrossed in the conversation with her sister, and couldn't possibly have voluntarily been playing with one of my knives!:eek: So, I said nothing to her, and she never said anything about it to me. But, I may have to start paying closer attention, or she may end up taking my my knives as her own.

DD
 
Daniel Dorn said:
I had a very strange experience with my wife, as well. The other night, we were sitting on the couch watching TV. Well, I was watching TV, and she was on the phone with her sister. Anyway, I had my MT LCC D/A on the couch beside me, and I got up to get something, and when I come back she had that thing in her hands, and was absent-mindedly opening it, and closing it. Now, you have to know that she is VERY afraid of my knives, in general, and is paranoid that my kids will someday open an artery, or something, so to see her handling, and even OPENING one of my knives was a very strange occurance. Now, the LCC is not a small knife, so I was totally shocked. Funny thing is, I don't think she even realized what she was doing, because she was totally engrossed in the conversation with her sister, and couldn't possibly have voluntarily been playing with one of my knives!:eek: So, I said nothing to her, and she never said anything about it to me. But, I may have to start paying closer attention, or she may end up taking my my knives as her own.

DD
as long as she was only opening it manually, no problem.

Seriously, this thread makes me happy that my beloved wife only rolls her eyes and sighs when I get the new Blade mag, A.G. Russell catalog, or something like that. If she liked knives as much as I do, we would really be in trouble.
I have known her to comment to her friends that "nobody has as many kitchen knives as we have". I' not sure if she is bragging that she has a husband who likes to cook--or complainig.
 
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