Not Proud of this but...

Well guys it seems like most of your infi has returned to you, but I think my first Busse is gone for good. Lesson Learned I assure you all. Glad you got your 3K back Bigfattyt.
 
I am at the other end. I have 7 knives that I have found laying in the road or on a trail. None of them worth much.
 
Bigfattyt said:
Once, as a kid, I made the mistake of letting my mom hold about 3 grand for me. I had a job, but no bank account then. My mom took the money in the envelope, then promptly lost it.

I did not think about it for a long time. But eventually remembered my mom had it. I asked her where it was. She told me with a straight face, that I had never given her and envelope full of cash.....ever.

She insisted!

More than a year later, she comes up to me and hands me an envelope with 3k or so in it. The same one I had given her to hold, that she insisted she had never seen.


She took the money, and filed it in one of her locking file cabinets under "M" for money, then promptly forgot it ever existed!


I got the money back, but more importantly......I was able to lord it over my mom, that in fact, she had "lost" my money for all that time, and then made me feel stupid for questioning her.






I have "lost" guns and knives of many varieties, including several pieces of Infi. They have always turned up so far.........knock on wood!



sorry to hear of your loss!


I do have one knife that I have lost at least 20 times. Not just around the house. I have lost it while walking, and riding my bike in the snow.

I have had strangers walk up to me and say "Hey, is this yours? I found it in the snow and remembered seeing it clipped to your pocket the other day" Total strangers have tracked me down and given that piece of crap back.

I lost it for 4 years or so when it fell behind a drawer. We found it while throwing the drawer away.

I took it and ground the edge and tip off and gave it to my son as his first "knife" when he wanted to be like me.
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Did you hit her up for the interest you lost ? ? ? :)
Yeah, thought so, neither would I, I probably owe my mom & dad a helluva lot more than 3 grand over the years, trust me . . . .
 
As a kid, I lost my Old Timer (my Uncle found it), a Case, and a Queen. A few years ago, I gave my wife a limited Kershaw Mini Cyclone in titanium and ZDP 189. She lost it a month later. I liked that little knife so much, that I bought another one. I gave my wife a William Henry to replace the Kershaw. She lost that 6 months later. While I was looking through her car for the William Henry, I found the Mini Cyclone. I still haven't found the William Henry. I've given Piglettooth about at least 5 knives that she's lost, including a Benchmade Mini DeJavoo, a Kershaw Rainbow Leek, and a Busse Bear Cub HACK. Luckily, I haven't lost anything lately. I did temporarily misplace a 17 round magazine for my Ruger SR9c, but I found it right where I left it. I'm just having a harder time remembering where I leave things.
 
Paulde, I would be careful writing about such incidents in here or anywhere where others can see it. You could be charged for child negligence for admitting such mistakes.
 
Thankfully I've never lost a Busse, but I was bailing hay one day and I lost my folder at the time (a Kershaw 1550 T blackout). Even though it was a $50 knife, I felt sick, I loved that knife.

I also managed to "lose" (misplace) my Ontario machete with a 22 inch blade for about 4 months. I needed to use it one day, couldn't find it, then the next morning it occured to me when I last used it. So I went into the woods by the pond at my house and found it sitting on top of the rock I left it on. It had been there all winter and a lot of the late fall and early spring.
 
We were driving home from my mother's house on Cape Cod a few years back. I was driving my wife's car with my keys.

About 20 min from home she blurted out, "Oh S-word!"

"What?"

"I left my keys on the roof of the car."

I was driving in a. . . spirited fashion. Up and over the Bourne Bridge and all. Never heard a thing. ????

We pulled over. They were right where she left em. They never moved. LOL


EDIT - come to think of it, she JUST found the spare set of keys to my truck in her 2-season coat this past weekend. Grrrrr. That woman and keys. Good thing she's in Phoenix this weekend checking in on her aunt.
 
Maybe 15 years ago, I left a Spyderco Pro Hunter on the ground while skinning a buck and did'nt think about it until I got home. Still think I can find it some day when I go back. Another time I drove from the cabin down a dirt road to the corner store and back, about 4-5 miles and my beer was still on the rear bumper. What a close call!
 
I don't worry bout loosing any of my Busse's they're all tucked away safe and sound in my safes.
 
I did the wallet thing on the roof once too. Was swimming at the local river one day and was sneakily getting changes behind the car when we were leaving. I left the wallet on the roof and drove off. Wasn't till later that evening when I went to order a pizza for dinner, I realised it was gone!

I called up my bank and cancelled all my cards and ordered new ones. Literally, about a minute after I got off the phone from the bank, the police called to say that someone had handed it in. I went to pick it up in the morning and all my cards were there and even the cash was left in it!! I was a little peeved at cancelling all my cards, but extremely grateful that someone was honest enough to hand it in without stealing anything.
 
OK, this should make some of you feel better unless it's happened to you. I got divorced from my wife and with the amount of money that I had to give her I could have bought HUNDREDS OF VERY EXPENSIVE BUSSE CUSTOM BLADES. I'm not exaggerating. If I get married again, it's going to be to one of my INFI blades.
 
JUST1MOR said:
Did you hit her up for the interest you lost ? ? ? :)
Yeah, thought so, neither would I, I probably owe my mom & dad a helluva lot more than 3 grand over the years, trust me . . . .
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The funny part, is to this day, she does not even remember it.


I was sure one of my brother's pot head friends had stolen it and smoked it up.

They were always stealing my stuff, including one knife that I eventually "recovered" from one of them. Minus an inch of point, and with a broken handle.
 
I lost my Swamp Rat HCLE... what was most frustrating is I have no idea whatsoever where it ever went or how it got lost.
 
I lost the first knife I ever had... it was a Western bird & trout with a stag handle, in a tooled sheath. An uncle won it in a raffle and gave it to me when I was young kid. Years later, I finally started using it when I took up hunting. After a few years of use it was lost when the stitching failed on the sheath and the knife fell out somewhere in the woods on a hunting trip. :(

I "lost" my first decent knife, a Benchmade Mini-AFCK I edc'd for years, on a normal Sunday outing to the skeet club. Weeks later, I found it hanging by the clip on the back of the mesh skeet vest I wore that day. I lost the same knife on a fishing trip and found it much later folded up in the Crazy Creek camp chair I was using on top of the bench seat in my small aluminum boat. I still have and enjoy that knife.

Many years ago, I lost my favorite subcompact camera (an Olympus XA) twice and both times it was returned to me by an honest person (my name was engraved on the bottom). Another camera, possibly my all-time favorite subcompact (a Yashica T4 Super) got left on the roof of my buddy's Blazer after a fly fishing trip. When we got on the highway, we heard it bounce down the length of the roof and both turned to see it cartwheeling and rapidly disassembling itself in the road behind us. When I got home, the very first thing I did was try to order another one. I was saddened to find it had been discontinued for some time. :(

I can report than none of my Busses have ever been lost but I almost lost my BAD the first time I used it. I had just finished field dressing a bow-killed whitetail and as I was getting ready to drag it out, I felt something unusual underfoot. I looked down to see my BAD laying in the leaves. If I hadn't stepped on it I would have walked out without it.

Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
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