Package opening

MessieurRick said:
Far too many freedoms end at the office/factory door.
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I haven't had any jobs that forbid knives explicitly, but it's been implied at a couple. At those places I just carried one anyway, figuring if something happens I had a job before I started, and I'll have another one when I leave. Maybe it's the wrong attitude, but being someone who shows up on time, and does whatever task allotted without (much) complaint it's never been particularly difficult to find employment.

Luckily most of my jobs have been of the outdoorsy blue collar variety and having a knife makes sense anyway. I'm now self employed and just carry whatever.

As to the original topic of the thread: I too, see many animal like or key attacks on packaging. I just chuckle to myself for the most part. Every now and then I'll offer assistance, but that's only for people I deal with on a regular basis.
 
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Wild Willie said:
I haven't had any jobs that forbid knives explicitly, but it's been implied at a couple. At those places I just carried one anyway, figuring if something happens I had a job before I started, and I'll have another one when I leave. Maybe it's the wrong attitude, but being someone who shows up on time, and does whatever task allotted without (much) complaint it's never been particularly difficult to find employment.

Luckily most of my jobs have been of the outdoorsy blue collar variety and having a knife makes sense anyway. I'm now self employed and just carry whatever.

As to the original topic of the thread: I took, see many animal like or key attacks on packaging. I just chuckle to myself for the most part. Every now and then I'll offer assistance, but that's only for people I deal with on a regular basis.
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Good policy. I usually carried small, inoffensive, traditional (read "Non-tactical") slip joint or lockback knives and never had any problems. My experience is that if you use your head and didn't create any problems, there wouldn't be any problems.
 
MessieurRick said:
Good policy. I usually carried small, inoffensive, traditional (read "Non-tactical") slip joint or lockback knives and never had any problems. My experience is that if you use your head and didn't create any problems, there wouldn't be any problems.
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That's how I went about it too. Of course at the time I didn't really know about what else was out there, so I carried the same knife that had gotten me by on the farm.
 
Steely_Gunz said:
I havefound that the .454 is overly expensive and a too low in capacity for freeing my daughter's Barbie dolls from the multitude of ties the manufacturers use to fasten them to their cardboard backers. I found that using a Glock 20 allows me to free most of the pieces of the doll from the packaging with usually just one or two magazines. If I was a bit better of a shot, I think I could have done it with just a Glock 17. Alas, my daughter is now 13 and that ship has sailed. She no longer allows me to open up the packaging of her expensive eyeliner even though I'm only using a .45 colt out of a Bond Arms šŸ¤”

In all seriously, I usually just watch the evolved and civilized people gnash and tear at the plastic. My wife just hands me whatever she wants opened. My daughter will MOST of the time actually carry a Vic Huntsman or Micra.
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I too was a 10mm package opener before I discovered binary explosives. The trick was getting the charge size right to remove the ties, but not doll parts.
 
A few years ago, I was alarmed to realize I had only three screwdrivers left (my tools tend to disappear). Went to the local hardware stores and bought the biggest set of varied screwdrivers I could find. It was Craftsman, because that's all the stores had. Big flat blister pack. I cut around the edge with a knife, but it still would not open because there were 20 some staples scattered all over the blister pack. Staples are bad for knives. I tried a staple remover, but the staple ends were sunk into the cardboard backing and hard to get at. Feeling annoyed, I put the blister pack in a vise and dismembered it with a reciprocating saw until I could pull it apart. I still hold a grudge against recent Craftsman tools.
 
Peregrin said:
My grandkids are always handing me whatever needs cutting or opening, followed by, "Papa, do you have your knife?" I've never had to say no.
Not sure what other folks do, but they've missed the boat.
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My nephews are the same way. Last year one of my nephews, 4 at the time, asked me where my knife was. I told him it was clipped to my pocket. He then said "please don't get me with your knife, that would hurt." I was a bit taken aback, but told him that I don't "get" people with my knife, I only use it for opening packages and cutting stuff.
 
I have become the designated cutter opener dude of get togethers with my other halfā€™s family. I reckon none of her kinfolk carry knives at all it seems like. Iā€™m starting to wonder if maybe theyā€™ve all got it worked out have me cut stuff open just so they can see what knives Iā€™m carrying that day
 
JC972 said:
I have become the designated cutter opener dude of get togethers with my other halfā€™s family. I reckon none of her kinfolk carry knives at all it seems like. Iā€™m starting to wonder if maybe theyā€™ve all got it worked out have me cut stuff open just so they can see what knives Iā€™m carrying that day
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My in laws are the opposite. I remember one of the first times I met them, something needed opening and one of them asked, ā€œlet me borrow your knifeā€ as if everyone in the world carried one. Fortunately I passed the test.
 
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