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

I rarely let anyone touch my knives. I always offer to perform the task for them, it's a personal rule I apply to any tool in my possession. I wouldn't hand a knife over to someone just like I wouldn't hand a gun to anyone. In the hands of the inept, it could be dangerous to themselves or others. I don't take into account the health of the knife before I consider the risks involved with handing someone a tool that can easily be turned into a weapon. The ONLY time I ever let someone handle my knife is if I know for a fact the person is a knife owner themselves, and they know how to properly handle one.
 
I'm glad that most seem to feel the way I do now. I wont likely hand over a knife to anybody anymore.

Blades&Bullets said:
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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Yea there's a small chance I'll be able to track her down, I only know her first name. I did hang around the base area where we started the morning to see if she came back or if she dropped it off and it wasn't there.
 
If you ever do see her again ask if you can use her cell phone to make a call and then smash it on the ground in front of her. :D

Seriously though. It's not looking like you are going to see that knife again, but like I said before i'm sure you learned a very valuable lesson that will most likely save you much more that that in the future. :thumbup:
 
Jeez what a dick move to borrow someone's pocket knife and start using it to scrap gum off the floor. Even with a $15 ebay knife that would kind of piss me off. Not bothering to give it back is way worse of course, but that could be written off as forgetting and you might see her/it again.

Lesson learned, either say no or always carry two knives. Even when you do lend one out, make sure you stay close enough or just demand it back after the single task someone needed it for has been completed.

By the way, the mini griptilian costs 110 euros (= $146) here in the Netherlands. I'd buy two for $80,-
 
When non-knife people ask to borrow a knife often times they don't want a knife. They want a screwdriver, or a pry bar, or chisel...

So if it's a buddy of mine I'll ask them what they want to use it for and either do it for them if it's something quick, or I'll hand over my leatherman. If I don't really know the person I'd say no.
 
Maybe the building you were in has a lost and found? I realize knives have a way of not being turned in to lost and found, but......
 
I usually ask what they need cut and offer to cut it for them, but recently I have been carrying a beater knife along with my normal EDC for the day. It's a spyderco endura clip it that has seen better days and has had the tip broken twice. That way I am not going to be pissed if someone uses it improperly. Just my solution to the "can I borrow your knife" situation.
 
I carry a $20 Wenger Esquire for tape busting duty, so that little fellow is the loaner. I won't hand over my Spydercos or ZTs.
 
I have heard it put perfectly and succinctly once in here, and unfortunately I cannot remember who it was so I can't quote the.

If they don't have a knife of thier own, dont expect them to know how to treat yours.
That being said, I carry a SAK as a loaner.

(Quick post, sorry if it was already said.)
 
NJBillK said:
I have heard it put perfectly and succinctly once in here, and unfortunately I cannot remember who it was so I can't quote the.

If they don't have a knife of thier own, dont expect them to know how to treat yours.
That being said, I carry a SAK as a loaner.

(Quick post, sorry if it was already said.)
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I hadn't seen that before. Very well said.
 
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