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Let's hear your worst (or best) sheeple experiences.
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o.k. so i was at my daughter's swim meet, one of the team moms wanted to prepare baked potatoes that she had brought from home. realizing she had nothing but a spoon to use i offered her my 556-mini grip.total disbelief on her face, she asked if i had killed anything with it lately. i replied, no i only use it for food like baked potatoes.
( how do some people survive?)
( how do some people survive?)
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...and a few years back I wound up helping one of my colleagues move some document boxes into her office, which was next to mine. They were taped shut, so I took out my SAK (Victorinox Tinker, IIRC) and opened them up.
She asked me if I carried it on me all the time, and I told her "yep". She looked thoughtful.
A few days later, she got some more boxes in, and stuck her head in my door and asked if she could borrow my SAK. I handed her my Leatherman Micra instead. Her face lit up as she grasped the multitool concept; it was really pretty cool to see. I actually had to ask her to give it back.
A while after that, we were poking around in the dark backstage at a local bar, at a recruiting event we were hosting. As it happened, I had just put a new AAA into my Maglite Solitaire...
She asked me if I carried it on me all the time, and I told her "yep". She looked thoughtful.
A few days later, she got some more boxes in, and stuck her head in my door and asked if she could borrow my SAK. I handed her my Leatherman Micra instead. Her face lit up as she grasped the multitool concept; it was really pretty cool to see. I actually had to ask her to give it back.
A while after that, we were poking around in the dark backstage at a local bar, at a recruiting event we were hosting. As it happened, I had just put a new AAA into my Maglite Solitaire...
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My worst experience happened just this past weekend when an older lady, that I tried to help, described the blade on my Leatherman Charge XTi as being WICKED!!
She was helping her sister in law open some birthday presents and I passed my LM to her, since I don't lend my good folders to sheeple. After criticizing the LM, I seriously thought about showing her what I carry as my primary EDC....a Benchmade AFCK!
She was helping her sister in law open some birthday presents and I passed my LM to her, since I don't lend my good folders to sheeple. After criticizing the LM, I seriously thought about showing her what I carry as my primary EDC....a Benchmade AFCK!
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Garlic said:
Garlic...you better stay out of Whine and Cheese, buddy!
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Steven Roos said:A woman (okay, more like a b*tch, but anyway) today almost had a heart attack when I showed her one of these:
http://www.nemesis-knives.com/imp.html
She seemed particularly disturbed that it could open with one hand.
Yes, that's quite the cute little EVIL KILLING MACHINE you've got there
It's too bad they do'nt have a pic of the silver G10 version up; that sounds like a pretty sweet blade.So anyway, around Christmas last year, my girlfriend and I were out with my dad to help him pick out a new TV. The one he got ended up being too big to easily fit in his car so I suggested we take it out the box. That worked just fine, but as I took out my Buck/Strider SBT to break the box down (he needed to repackage and wrap it as a gift) he gave me one of those looks and questioned why I would ever need one of that size.
Later, at the TV's destination, I was rebuilding the box and cutting duct tape with my knife when my girlfriend started talking about Christmas and showed my dad some stuff in an REI catalog that she had told me she wanted. It was some misc. outdoorsy gear and a Buck Metro. My dad gave one of those startled "what would you ever need something like that for" responses, as I was making the finishing cuts in the tape to rebuild the box that I broke down for him
Also, keep in mind that the Buck Metro is a tiny, brightly anodized, keychain knife with a teeny tiny blade.... At least my gf is coming around to a healthy perception of knives. She's even been eyeing my "cute blue" knife (Dodo)lately like she wants one of her own 
keep in mind the sheeple thing can be to an advantage
over the summer there were these two obnoxious girls that would always come over and ask to use our microwave (they lived in the next apt building over). i found it hard to believe they didn't have a microwave, so my roommate and i were trying to figure out whether they liked me or him. we decided in the end it didn't mattter, because they were both annoying as hell, and we wanted to get rid of him. so one day we just left my entire knife collection on the living room table - this included a voyager XL, cuda maxx stiletto, terzuola, CS Trail master, Falkniven Odin, BM41, Spydie karambit, and my favorite the CS moro barong.
so these two girls do their daily visit, find like 20 knives in the living room and me flipping my cs arc-angel while stir-frying some dinner. i just shrugged and said "yeah i was cleaning my collection earlier."
they never came back, thank God.
over the summer there were these two obnoxious girls that would always come over and ask to use our microwave (they lived in the next apt building over). i found it hard to believe they didn't have a microwave, so my roommate and i were trying to figure out whether they liked me or him. we decided in the end it didn't mattter, because they were both annoying as hell, and we wanted to get rid of him. so one day we just left my entire knife collection on the living room table - this included a voyager XL, cuda maxx stiletto, terzuola, CS Trail master, Falkniven Odin, BM41, Spydie karambit, and my favorite the CS moro barong.
so these two girls do their daily visit, find like 20 knives in the living room and me flipping my cs arc-angel while stir-frying some dinner. i just shrugged and said "yeah i was cleaning my collection earlier."
they never came back, thank God.
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Love that story Ayzianboy. 
I did something similiar to an annoying female myself.
I've allowed my hair to grow long, I love the bush and the ocean and reckon the stoopidest thing we do is cut down more trees unnecessarily, I like wearing natural fibres like hemp, I do Yoga and I'm a vegetarian (well almost, my philosophy is to only eat what I have killed, so it's meat once a year and fish once a week) - OK I'm a hippy, but a Tactical Hippie
Every now and then I get some dippy female attach themselves to me and start on with their lame and lightweight new age philosphies - not that I am against the essence of most of that stuff but the unrealistic dreamy angle that some of these people takke just irritates the hell out of me.
So when I want to get rid of them I just make sure that a few copies of bacon busters (a most excellent pig hunting magazine) are lying around along with a few odd spydies and a couple of big honking fixed blades - I never hear from them afteer that.....
I did something similiar to an annoying female myself.
I've allowed my hair to grow long, I love the bush and the ocean and reckon the stoopidest thing we do is cut down more trees unnecessarily, I like wearing natural fibres like hemp, I do Yoga and I'm a vegetarian (well almost, my philosophy is to only eat what I have killed, so it's meat once a year and fish once a week) - OK I'm a hippy, but a Tactical Hippie
Every now and then I get some dippy female attach themselves to me and start on with their lame and lightweight new age philosphies - not that I am against the essence of most of that stuff but the unrealistic dreamy angle that some of these people takke just irritates the hell out of me.
So when I want to get rid of them I just make sure that a few copies of bacon busters (a most excellent pig hunting magazine) are lying around along with a few odd spydies and a couple of big honking fixed blades - I never hear from them afteer that.....
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Yeee-oowwww. This one jsut happened today, with another guy none the less, so here it goes.
Today at work I pulled out my emerson commander (i didn't even 'wave' it open) to help a co-worker with a task. I kept it out of view of customers...down low, used it quickly and safely, and put it back. This 17 year old quickly remarked scarcastically, "nice switchblade...you know you cannot carry those."
My response..."First, its called an auto or automatic knife, and this knife is not an automatic. Second, I can carry any knife i want. I have my knife as a tool not a weapon, and that is what it gets used as...as I just demonstrated. I can carry what I want, and it doesn't help when people like you have an emotional response to soemthing you know nothing about. The law in ohio has no blade length restiction, so I can carry this knife."
His response; "Yeah, I know..."
Today at work I pulled out my emerson commander (i didn't even 'wave' it open) to help a co-worker with a task. I kept it out of view of customers...down low, used it quickly and safely, and put it back. This 17 year old quickly remarked scarcastically, "nice switchblade...you know you cannot carry those."
My response..."First, its called an auto or automatic knife, and this knife is not an automatic. Second, I can carry any knife i want. I have my knife as a tool not a weapon, and that is what it gets used as...as I just demonstrated. I can carry what I want, and it doesn't help when people like you have an emotional response to soemthing you know nothing about. The law in ohio has no blade length restiction, so I can carry this knife."
His response; "Yeah, I know..."
Plumber576 said:
actually, that seems too long and umm... for lack of better word, elitist/obsessive/dorky of a response. or maybe you're just a nicer guy than me
had I been in that position, i simply would have said, "you know, this isn't a switchblade, and it's perfectly legal, so shut up you little jackass."
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i have to admit, i hear this alot about any of my knives that i can open quickly one-handed (including my 710, 806d2, Leek). not that the people who see them are offended, but they often smugly remark how what i'm carrying is illegal.Plumber576 said:
that just totally gets to me. if they don't know the law (and they obviously don't), they really should just keep their comments to themselves. of course, then i wouldn't have the pleasure of shredding them with my own knowledge of what is and isn't legal for carry in CA. i've never not come out on top!
abe
yeah i've had that happen to me a few times.
too bad i'm not as patient as some of you
my conversations with random people usually go like
me: *takes out BM710*
them: nice knife. you know that's illegal, ur gonna get arrested.
me: actually it's legal, thanks.
them: how is that legal
me: because the law says i can carry it
them: i still don't think that's legal.
me: that's because you're a jackass.
too bad i'm not as patient as some of you
my conversations with random people usually go like
me: *takes out BM710*
them: nice knife. you know that's illegal, ur gonna get arrested.
me: actually it's legal, thanks.
them: how is that legal
me: because the law says i can carry it
them: i still don't think that's legal.
me: that's because you're a jackass.
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I think I've about had all reactions from "Oh my God, that knife is a killing machine (my Fällkniven F1 iirc) to "Well, that has got to be illegal to carry something like that! If not, it should be!" (Said by a nutcase woman about my Jens Ansø Small Sheepsfoot)
My mother in law once looked at a Busse Buffalo Soldier on my table and siad "it's getting dangerous coming here!" She's a great person, but I got slightly p.o'ed and told her that her kitchen knives were more dangerous than a 4,5" hunting knife! She never mentioned it again!
Most of my coworkers have been whining about my knives too, but over time they have become used to them (and me, I assume!) so it's not an issue anymore.
Sometimes it's actually funny! One of them asked to borrow my knife and that ONE day I got out of bed ten minutes before I should have been at work and only got my SAK Recruit with me! I handed it to her, she stared at me in disbelief and asked "Is that all you've got on you?" I said "Yah...?" And she just started laughing! Hmmm......!
Bo
My mother in law once looked at a Busse Buffalo Soldier on my table and siad "it's getting dangerous coming here!" She's a great person, but I got slightly p.o'ed and told her that her kitchen knives were more dangerous than a 4,5" hunting knife! She never mentioned it again!
Most of my coworkers have been whining about my knives too, but over time they have become used to them (and me, I assume!) so it's not an issue anymore.
Sometimes it's actually funny! One of them asked to borrow my knife and that ONE day I got out of bed ten minutes before I should have been at work and only got my SAK Recruit with me! I handed it to her, she stared at me in disbelief and asked "Is that all you've got on you?" I said "Yah...?" And she just started laughing!
Hmmm......!Bo
G'day,
What I find really interesting is that you can't ever tell (or at least I can't) who will react how.
Response to cutting up a tomato at lunch with my vicious, large, deadly Fallkniven U2, from another male--"that looks dangerous!" (I said "Only if you're a tomato!")
While cutting up ribbon to put on balloons for an office party the older woman with whom I was working said "Nice knife, it works better than the scissors, can I use it?"
Greg
What I find really interesting is that you can't ever tell (or at least I can't) who will react how.
Response to cutting up a tomato at lunch with my vicious, large, deadly Fallkniven U2, from another male--"that looks dangerous!" (I said "Only if you're a tomato!")
While cutting up ribbon to put on balloons for an office party the older woman with whom I was working said "Nice knife, it works better than the scissors, can I use it?"
Greg
Another Post Office story, but a good one. Although I live in a growing suburban area, out post office is still a small one, kind of in transition from a rural to a suburban one. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that the workers at this post office are the most courteous, helpful, and friendly USPS people I have ever encountered.
Our carrier left a box containing a Busse hanging from my mailbox flag over a weekend when I was out of town. (The fact that it was still there when I returned is still kinda surprising to me.) The next week I met her at the mailbox and told her that I preferred that she just leave an attempted delivery slip and I would pick my packages up at the post office. I also let slip that my packages usually contained high-end and collector knives. She said that she would be glad to do that, or if I preferred she would just leave my packages behind a wicker seat on my front pourch. That being ok by me, she has been doing that for over a year now, getting out of the car, walking across a sizeable lawn, and leaving the packages concealed.
Living in Alabama I have had very few negative sheeple encounters.
For a while, I got in the habit of carrying a smaller Cold Steel Tanto in my briefcase and using it at work to cut and peel fruit. The only comment I ever got was. "don't let security see you with that." Actually, the position of our chief of security at that time was that if employees carried a firearm it be properly permitted, and that knives be of legal size and type. My general manager for a while kept a Colt Python .357 in his desk drawer, although very few knew about it. Alas all that changed after the security chief's retirement and after 9/11.
Our carrier left a box containing a Busse hanging from my mailbox flag over a weekend when I was out of town. (The fact that it was still there when I returned is still kinda surprising to me.) The next week I met her at the mailbox and told her that I preferred that she just leave an attempted delivery slip and I would pick my packages up at the post office. I also let slip that my packages usually contained high-end and collector knives. She said that she would be glad to do that, or if I preferred she would just leave my packages behind a wicker seat on my front pourch. That being ok by me, she has been doing that for over a year now, getting out of the car, walking across a sizeable lawn, and leaving the packages concealed.
Living in Alabama I have had very few negative sheeple encounters.
For a while, I got in the habit of carrying a smaller Cold Steel Tanto in my briefcase and using it at work to cut and peel fruit. The only comment I ever got was. "don't let security see you with that." Actually, the position of our chief of security at that time was that if employees carried a firearm it be properly permitted, and that knives be of legal size and type. My general manager for a while kept a Colt Python .357 in his desk drawer, although very few knew about it. Alas all that changed after the security chief's retirement and after 9/11.
Maybe people have got worse, but when I was at school I had a night job at the local supermarket filling freezers, where I used a bali (just some CCC and before they were specifically illegal here) to split open the boxes. I don't recall anybody ever commenting on it, although it was just a quick flip open, no fancy stuff.
This was in the days before they provided box-cutters (and I imagine we all know what can be done with them), most people tried to use the points of their biros, stabbing the tape until they've mutilated it enough to be able to rip it off.
Allowed me to spend the least amount time with my fists around boxes of frozen peas and such like.
This was in the days before they provided box-cutters (and I imagine we all know what can be done with them), most people tried to use the points of their biros, stabbing the tape until they've mutilated it enough to be able to rip it off.
Allowed me to spend the least amount time with my fists around boxes of frozen peas and such like.