My Amazing Wife, Part 2 - The Return of the Revenge (now in 3D!)

evilgreg

evilgreg

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Some of you may remember the story I posted a couple of weeks ago about my wife buying me a Southard. Long story short, she ordered the Southard planning on giving it to me for Valentine's day, researching and selecting the knife on her own, even though she's not a knife person. The knife arrived, she opened it up and thought it was too ugly to give to me, but decided to just give it to me after I assured her I'd love whatever the mysterious thing was, because she gave it to me.

After carrying it for a few days, I sent it off to Barry H. to get prettied up with some sweet LSCF loving and it's in the mail on the way back to me now :)

Fast forward to this morning, when I gave her some Valentine's gifts. She had a gift for me as well, despite having already surprised me by buying me a knife. It looked like this:

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Inside the bag:

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Inside the box:

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. . . after already buying me the Southard a couple of weeks ago, she still gave me a Sage 2 for Valentine's. When I protested that she'd already gotten me an amazing knife, she explained that the Southard was too ugly to count :)

We're not newlyweds, we started dating in '94 and this year we'll celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary, but she still surprises me all the time. She doesn't like knives, we don't talk about knives, and the fact that she researched and chose two very nice knives to buy for me out of the blue is incredibly touching.

My total Valentine's haul now consists of a Spyderco Brad Southard and this Spyderco Sage 2:

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Yes, I do know that I'm a lucky dude ;)

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.
 
Lucky dude indeed! Congratulations on 15 years. We will be celebrating our 39th this year. Great looking knives too.

Blessings,

Omar
 
OHALLUM said:
Lucky dude indeed! Congratulations on 15 years. We will be celebrating our 39th this year. Great looking knives too.

Blessings,

Omar
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Wow, 39th--that's awesome. The luckiest thing in the universe has to be finding someone you want to be with for the long haul that feels the same way in return. We're both pretty lucky, I guess :)
 
A sage 2 and a southard nice!!!! Congratulations on 15 years!

Omar 39 years...that's amazing!
 
Awesome man, I have been married about half as long as you, and have a new knife (not sure which one exactly) waiting when we both get home. It is nice to have a woman realize what you are into even if she doesn't get it and want to please you. That is better than the actual knives.
 
She made some excellent purchases! You'll love that Sage 2. It's a great design, feels nice in the hand, and the s30v is, of course, good steel. I EDC a Sage 2 most days and it handles daily tasks with ease.
 
Wives that buy knives for gifts are so cool! Mine bought me 2 for Christmas. One for my birthday 2 years ago, too. She could care less about my hobby. She knows little about knives, too. But she cares what makes me happy. Congrats on finding an amazing wife.
 
zcd said:
Wow, I think you made the right choice!
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Me too :)

9blades said:
A sage 2 and a southard nice!!!! Congratulations on 15 years!
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Thanks!

nccole said:
Awesome man, I have been married about half as long as you, and have a new knife (not sure which one exactly) waiting when we both get home. It is nice to have a woman realize what you are into even if she doesn't get it and want to please you. That is better than the actual knives.
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Yup, it's that she still cares enough to do something so thoughtful that really makes it awesome. The fact that she picked really nice knives is just a bonus.

MRaymond said:
Wow, If we could all be so lucky!! Congrats on having a great wife:)
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Indeed, and thanks!

Fanglekai said:
She made some excellent purchases! You'll love that Sage 2. It's a great design, feels nice in the hand, and the s30v is, of course, good steel. I EDC a Sage 2 most days and it handles daily tasks with ease.
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Well, I'm a bit of a Spyderco hater but both of these are really very nice knives. Apparently my lovely bride's taste in knives leans toward the Spyderco titanium frame lock range.

gooeytek said:
Does she have a sister ?!?
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Ha, sorry, sisters.

jimh0220 said:
Wives that buy knives for gifts are so cool! Mine bought me 2 for Christmas. One for my birthday 2 years ago, too. She could care less about my hobby. She knows little about knives, too. But she cares what makes me happy. Congrats on finding an amazing wife.
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I have to up my game, I have to find something thoughtful enough to keep up (I think I actually did pretty well at that for Valentine's day already, but if I can make her happy I'll always take a stab at it).

evilgreg said:
Wow, 39th--that's awesome. The luckiest thing in the universe has to be finding someone you want to be with for the long haul that feels the same way in return. We're both pretty lucky, I guess :)
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Here is a quick and dirty snapshot of the knives my wife bought me (the Southard is fresh back from Barry's diabolical laboratory, looking great):

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Well that is a good addition to your previous story. I think the Sage series is great. It is interesting that your wife was concerned about the looks of the knife, I think the Sage 1 and Sage 2 are Spyderco's best looking knives.
 
Always love her and cherish her with all your heart. Those kind of women(people)are few and far between. She is showing a great example of selflessness.
 
bdmicarta said:
Well that is a good addition to your previous story. I think the Sage series is great. It is interesting that your wife was concerned about the looks of the knife, I think the Sage 1 and Sage 2 are Spyderco's best looking knives.
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Yes, though it's disturbing that she seems to lean towards Spyderco knives. I tend to prefer Benchmade's smaller, lighter designs, and she seems to like Spyderco bigger but more ergonomic approach. Does that make us a mixed knife marriage?

sykes3170 said:
Always love her and cherish her with all your heart. Those kind of women(people)are few and far between. She is showing a great example of selflessness.
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I'm glad you put (people) there. This just makes me want to make her feel the same way I did, when she surprised me with the Southard, even more.

2 shot said:
Nice to see stories like this...what did you get her?
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I took a multi-layered approach, using both conventional and unconventional tactics. I surprised her with a lunch out together on the 13th, at a nice restaurant she'd mentioned wanting to visit a year or two earlier.

I also went with four dozen of her favorite flower, tulips, slipped into the house unnoticed the night before, jewelry, and credit for a massage. I used red and black fine point pens to elaborately decorate a number of small valentines which I left in locations for her to find throughout the morning of Valentine's.

Also, I purchased her an inexpensive but very nice little starter pocket knife. A mini-grip in extremely non-threatening pink. At this point I do realize I should have bought her a Spyderco, in retrospect I suppose I could have got her a pink native instead.
 
That's awesome my friend, she picked two great knives that is for sure. I just discussed my knife obsession with my wife last night and she just doesn't get it and probably never will.
 
Congrats on the knife, it's a really good one.
You are a lucky man that has a very thoughtful wife. Hang onto that woman, no matter what.
 
1+ Greg, you got a keeper! Noticed the southard in the spyderco forums, nice knife after Berry worked his magic. 15 years well spent.
 
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