Mini Griptilian Casualty -- Lesson Learned. Do you let others use your knife?

I lend them my $15 Kershaw Shuffle that I keep clipped to my keys for this very reason. Well also as a bottle opener but mainly as a loaner then I don't care if they lose it or break it or whatever. As others have said though, non "knife people" don't know how much a quality knife is and think whatever you give them is a $5 pocketknife you can pick up at any walmart or hardware store and they treat it as such. When one of my coworkers did this before I got the Shuffle, he was about to attempt to pry something with my Kershaw Leek, luckily he was feet away and I was able to yell and stop him from doing it. The next day I brought him a junk MTech that I don't even remember where or why I got it and I gave it to him to keep. He asked me why I carry that other one (Leek) as this one (MTech) looks much nicer :) True story
 
"do you have a knife?"

"Sure, what do you need cut?" (goes over to object requiring attention)

People abuse knives when they don't understand. Never loan out that which you aren't willing to have completely destroyed or lost.
 
"do you happen to have a pocket knife?"

Perhaps, what are you needing to cut?
-proceed to cut it myself

If I handed it over and saw em scrapping concrete in a attempt to get the gum off; I might of let out a wtf are you doing?
 
shuutr said:
"do you have a knife?"

"Sure, what do you need cut?" (goes over to object requiring attention)

People abuse knives when they don't understand. Never loan out that which you aren't willing to have completely destroyed or lost.
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This.
 
Certainly would not loan a knife to a stranger, and not to most of my relatives...especially not to my relatives.
 
I saw a friend lend an expensive knife to someone who proceeded to break off about 1/2 and inch of the blade. From that time on, if I keep a cheap knife on my key ring that is big enough to do common tasks to lend out and if anything happens to it, I am out 10 bucks or so. I keep my good one in the other pocket ;)
 
I don't know how anyone even a woman:p could think it's socially exceptable to scrap gum off concrete with a knife. Use you dang fingers,or a rock ,or a piece of cardboard,ect.ect. I cringed when i heard steel scraping concrete. How could someone think that's OK? Really i'm bafelled. And she just disappears. There has to be a way to find her. Will give you a good reason to stalk her.:) I'm definately keeping this story in mind when someone asks to use my knife. Probably best just to cut it for them. Any knife i carry means to much to me to have something like this happen. Tragic on many levels. Sorry to hear it. I hope you get it back.
 
Kershaws said:
There was a big thread about loaning knives, i'm assuming OP didn't read it :rolleyes:
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I didn't see the other thread. I'll look around for it.

mars5l said:
The big question is, was she hot? Maybe you might get in touch with her and end up on a date all thanks to that knife
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Oh yes, she was hot. I know her first name so there's a chance I'll be able to track her down.

RemyKaze said:
I facepalmed when you dismissed an $80 knife as cheap. First world problems.
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I didn't necessarily dismiss it as a cheap knife, I was just looking on the bright side making a point that it could have been worse because I do regularly carry knives more expensive than a mini grip. Like I said in the original post, even with a mini grip I don't think I'd let somebody use my knife now that I've learned this lesson.

Capt. Spaulding said:
You seem pretty relaxed about losing a Mini-Grip.
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I definitely don't consider a mini grip a disposable knife but it was a series of bad decisions on my part that let this happen so I can't get too upset about it. I'm happy that the damage wasn't worse and now I've learned my lesson and I'll move on.
 
Standing Headline: No good deed goes unpunished

This story is exactly why I never hand a knife over to anyone...If you don't carry a knife you have no idea and are probably a dumb ass, even if a hotty.
 
akrapacs said:
I didn't see the other thread. I'll look around for it.



Oh yes, she was hot. I know her first name so there's a chance I'll be able to track her down.



I didn't necessarily dismiss it as a cheap knife, I was just looking on the bright side making a point that it could have been worse because I do regularly carry knives more expensive than a mini grip. Like I said in the original post, even with a mini grip I don't think I'd let somebody use my knife now that I've learned this lesson.



I definitely don't consider a mini grip a disposable knife but it was a series of bad decisions on my part that let this happen so I can't get too upset about it. I'm happy that the damage wasn't worse and now I've learned my lesson and I'll move on.
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It seems you have a pretty great stance on the situation, and ultimately, have come out of it having learned something. I tend to base whether or not I'll hand a knife to someone on both the person and the knife I'm carrying. If it's a less expensive, simple design, and someone I know won't break it, I'll let them use it. More often than the knife being damaged, I've had people nearly hurt themselves trying to open and close certain knives - especially Kershaw Leeks in my early collecting. It can be a hard one to close one-handed if you're not practiced to keep it from slipping!
 
I've let people use my knives in the past just out of habit of being nice I suppose, but I never let them out of my sight. But after reading far too many stories like this one, I now just say "no, sorry, I don't have one." Even before I was really addicted to knives, I was always that guy that people assumed had a knife on him. I'd lend out cheap box cutters or something and I was always amazed how almost every time I'd have to be the one to ask for it back before they bothered to return it.
 
No. Never. I am (happily - 45 years) married to a chronic knife abuser but she doesn't get to use my knives, either.
 
if you ever find her give her a sob story about that knife meaning a lot to you and it was a gift from your late relative and then ask her out.
 
Lycosa said:
Yep. ^ NEVER, EVER, NEVER.
I do the cutting.
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^----THIS! I've seen what people do with things (not just knives) that aren't theirs, and there is no way in hell I'm letting them use my knife.
Agree 1000%, I do the cutting.
 
That would not have gone pretty if that was my knife.... But I wouldn't have lent it out in the first place.
 
RemyKaze said:
How do you say that? One halfst? My keen tequila intellect has started translating your made-up dialect!
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Isn't that an oxymoron??

To OP: Maybe she kept it so you have a reason to contact her.;)

Do you have any way of trying to find her? I would hate to just count it as a loss. Did you make sure she didn't leave it at the office there for you?
 
Blades&Bullets said:
Isn't that an oxymoron??

To OP: Maybe she kept it so you have a reason to contact her.;)

Do you have any way of trying to find her? I would hate to just count it as a loss. Did you make sure she didn't leave it at the office there for you?
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That was the joke. :p
 
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