Let's hear your worst (or best) sheeple experiences.

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Garlic

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i've never had any bad sheeple experiences/reactions yet, but i'm planning on edc'ing larger folders, & i'd like to hear some of the reactions or repercussions you have experienced, and also how you handled them.
 
i was walking by a bunch of peace protesters with a stainless handled harpy clipped to my pocket. One of them tried to get me to sign something on a clipboard. So i slit his throat. And the cops nearby dressed in grey bdu's pointed and laughed. then i went to the bar nearby. Or did i?
 
I was trying to ship a Rollock for warranty and the post office lady started freaking out when I told her there was a small pocket knife in the package. She franticly looks for something to open it and check the package and see if I were kidding. So I handed my Spyderco SS Jester and she started "flipping" out and says," How many knives do you have!" I smiled and said," Only a couple" :D :D
 
maineiac said:
i was walking by a bunch of peace protesters with a stainless handled harpy clipped to my pocket. One of them tried to get me to sign something on a clipboard. So i slit his throat. And the cops nearby dressed in grey bdu's pointed and laughed. then i went to the bar nearby. Or did i?
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my sense of humor stops just short of jokes about slitting throats. but that was a pretty good try, maybe i'm just not in the mood.. next?
 
JasonS said:
I was trying to ship a Rollock for warranty and the post office lady started freaking out when I told her there was a small pocket knife in the package. She franticly looks for something to open it and check the package and see if I were kidding. So I handed my Spyderco SS Jester and she started "flipping" out and says," How many knives do you have!" I smiled and said," Only a couple" :D :D
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lol, nice. spydie fans are bound to have multiple carry stories :D
 
Hi All-

Garlic, first of all, welcome to BladeForums! Hope you have a good time on this board. Here are some sheeple stories that you'll probably enjoy.

~ Blue Jays ~
 
I had just gotten new knife and saw a neighbor I always stopped to talk to, so I walked over, said hello, and showed her the knife. She was an older woman, conservative, not at all stupid. When I took out the Umfaan and opened it, she sort of gasped and asked, "Oh, are you allowed to carry one of those?"

The Umfaan has a 3" handle and 2.5" blade and I can hide it completely under my index finger.
 
Yes, interestingly enough, I bought 6 cheapo knives for my friends at some corner store. The woman who was working there was really worried about me buying them.
 
maineiac said:
i was walking by a bunch of peace protesters with a stainless handled harpy clipped to my pocket. One of them tried to get me to sign something on a clipboard. So i slit his throat. And the cops nearby dressed in grey bdu's pointed and laughed. then i went to the bar nearby. Or did i?
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I thought it was funny!?!?!?:eek: :rolleyes: :confused: :D

Larry S.:cool:
 
At the time this happened, I was a 48-year old police officer working in an office with civilians.

A teenaged girl who worked in the office broke her pencil and couldn't find a sharpener. I proffered my SAK for her to sharpen the pencil herself. Not only would she not even touch the SAK, she had to walk to the other side of the office while I sharpened it for her using its 1" blade.

maximus otter
 
Some of these stories make me wonder how people are able to slice bread without going into convulsions.
 
If'n I told ya all about my "sheeple experiences" with a knife, well......I'd have to.....well you know.....and I don't want to have to do that. :D
 
Here's a positive one.

One of my oldest friends, an intelligent, brilliantly talented and fiercely independent woman, but quite a hippy treehugger in her own way - freaked when I first showed her a spydie more then 5 years ago. She looked at me very strangely and asked me not to bring the knife into her house (we had been on a picnic) because she didn't want a 'weapon' affecting the energy feild or some other metaphysical reason.

Now she runs every morning with a Spyderco Native in the back of her shorts - she intially got the Native for self defence but now carries it every where because of how usefull it is.
 
My wife was at wal-mart and a couple were trying to decide on a fixed blade for a friend who goes camping alot. They were not knife knowedgable and she steered them toward a Buck 119.
 
I worked summers on a part/charter fishing boat and one year, we (the crew) had all bought new fillet knives, which are the ubiquitous Dexter/Russel high carbon stiff boning knives. At the time, we were younger, and thought that the longer blades were better for cutting fish, so we has just put a pair of Dexter 1378's on the boat. One was my personal property, and one was purchased by the owner of the company. So anyways, the day had ended, and we were steaming in, I was cutting fish on the stern, and these knives were razor sharp. Well, apparently the patrons were quite impressed, because when they got off the boat, the brand new knives were gone too!! :eek:
You guys tell me if this is a postive or a negative experience :rolleyes:

Pete
By the way...if anyone has access to a store where they sell the Dexter boning knives, and can see the label on the boxes, it reads for the 1378:

"8 inch wide stiff boner". I wish I had one of those. :D
 
the worst experience would have to be my first international knife-shipping experience. i had a box full of fixed blades to ship out and went to the post-office. got the usual question: "what's in it?". somewhat apprehensive, yet confident, i said "knives". the employee looked at me like i was some kind of criminal and if they were about to hit the red-alert button to call security... :rolleyes:

then they said stuff like that wasn't allowed to ship (at all!) by mail. i disagreed, and said that rule was for illegal weapons either here or in the destination-country. the employee opened this little book and showed me where it said about knives. the text in there was exactly the same as how it is in the laws over here, so i said "you see, what it says here is about illegal weapons, not ALL knives.....". i couldn't convince them and they thought they were correct. :barf:

well, lesson learned....so i visited the next closest post-office in town and when i got the 'what's in there' question i said 'tools'. "alrighty then, consider it shipped, that'll be $xxx (euros) please.....have a nice day." :)

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my coworker asked if I had a knife at my desk, she wanted to peel a cucumber, I told her I had a pocket knife. So I took it out and opened it, she said "geez, that's a pocket knife"? She was surprised at the size. It was only a Rat trap folder. Not like I pulled out a Bowie or anything.
 
I was showing my mom my new dao from Angel Sword. She looked at it critically for a moment and asked, "Where does all this fascination with knives and swords come from?"
I laughed and told her it stems from having died for want of a weapon in a previous lifetime.
She didn't question that...?

She carried her dad's pocketknife for years (in her wallet) until some brat in one of her classes stole her wallet. :mad:
 
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