My Tacticle 33OT

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xbxb

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Well I have thought about posting this several times and I guess this is the moment. I was putting on a seminar a few years ago and I had several brochures pamphlets and handouts shipped to the location before I arrived. When I got there I hauled this large box of stuff over to a table where several others were helping to get things set up and in order. The box had that nylon tape on it and I observed one of the ladies clawing at it with her fingernails. Several people were standing around looking at the box trying to figure out how to get into it. I pulled out 33OT schrade (about 3.25 inches, jack knife) opened the blade to cut the tape and this gal screams at the top of her lungs---KNIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--KNIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone just looked at her like are you the biggest dope in room? She stopped and looked at all of us staring at her, got this dumb look on her face and said --------sorry. I just shook my head in disbelief showed her the pocket knife and explained (very quietly and politely) it was a tool that is used in a variety of different ways to be of assistance to people here on the face of the Earth and would you please go sit down and relax. I was concerned that she may have had some kind of a terrible experience or something that made her act like that and really didn't want any more of an adverse reaction then the one I got. Instead of sitting down she proceeded to be of assistance in placing materials on the table and when she had accomplished the task she left the room. I'm more scared of people who don't carry a knife then those who do.
 
That is a tacticool de-animator there, xbxb. :D

I make it a habit at work of flashing my knives all the time. People got used to my "obsession", and always know who to come to. I even got a few people "infected with the sickness", and they carry now also. They also stop me to show me their latest "find".

To yell at the top of your lungs "KNIFE....KNIFE!" is an extreme sheeple reaction, to say the least....


Thanks for sharing.

Glenn
 
Im with you glenn the guys I work with know Im a knife junkie. different knife everyday using it constantly even when its not necessary. Playing with it all the time. good story xbxb I feel your pain theres no way to fix stupid. I m also more afraid of the guy without a pocket knife than the guy who is.-Joel
 
I was at work the other day, on lunch break and whittling a small plains Indian arrow for the grandson when someone came up and said " we aint supposed to carry weapons at work". I very nicely explained that the knife was a tool and only a weapon if I poked his eyes out with it. Not sure he saw the humor, but it did shut him up. This guy runs our paper shredder and bailer that has hundreds of knives in it, and he was worried about a 3 inch pocket knife? go figure.
 
I guess life is much simpler in the Tennessee backwoods. My local postmaster, a dyed in the wool Federal employee, anxiously awaits my opening packages of knives in his presence. He likes to hold them and look at them and learn a bit about their history. I was in court a few weeks back over a traffic citation and I forgot to leave my EDC stockman in the truck. No frisking, wands, or metal detectors. I did have to stop myself from fiddling with it in my pocket when talking to the Judge, Prosecuting Attorney, Court Clerk and the Sooper Trooper. But I doubt much would have been made of it if I had used it to clean my fingernails or open an envelope.

"Back in the day", it was not uncommon for kids in the first grade or second to have a knife at school. It was uncommon for a fourth or fifth grader to not have a knife. I only remember one incident in all those years involving a knife. Bobby stuck Frank in the thigh with his on the swingset. Brothers. Go figure.

Michael
 
Dang I gotta tell ya this must be something like talking to a shrink or something. Sure is good to have some folks in your corner. Makes me smile.:D
 
Worst I can remember were all self inflicted.. web tween thump and index finger being stupid on a stump and another slicing a wrist after forgetting I had placed a blade in my rear pocket and then wiping the crud off my hands on the rear of my thighs.
Stupid can't be taught.
Oh a buddy and I were talking about when we were in school he would bring his rifle to school every day as he was in the "rifle club" and shot daily as a school sport. Like to see that happen today in Mass...
 
I work for a subsidiary of a large package delivery company that likes to go by the name of "Brown". Knives are not allowed at any of our facilities either. We are in the process of opening up a new building and I am doing admin work there so as of right now I do not have to go through the metal detectors yet, but it is coming. So I have taken one of my Schrade 33OT in and hid it in my drawer so when the time comes I will have one at work for my back up. I hate to be without a 33OT on me.
 
I wonder how many others will fess up to be a Tactical 33OT fighter. It's good we get this off our chest and out of our system. Look out world!!
 
It's amazing how our world is changing! To think that people are afraid of a simple pocketknife! Of course the "hoax" that has been foisted on us about the hijackers of September 11th taking over aircraft with boxcutters hasn't helped any.

I guess I actually am in what many would call a "tactical" career...to me, it's just "work"...but I carry a 34OT all the time, so I guess mine really is a "tactical" 34OT!

Ron
 
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