I'm giving away knives.
Last weekend there was a gun show at the AG center in Westminster Maryland, and I had one last rifle to sell. I had this Marlin papoose .22 semi auto that I never could have any faith in because of jamming problems in spite of a trip back to Marlin. I had bought it as a canoe/kayak gun, but I gave up on it. Nothing but lever actions and revolvers for me from now on.
Anyway, I sold the gun and wandered around the gun show. I found a lady with some cigar boxes full of old pocket knives that were in very dirty condition but most were in very good shape under the filth. One whole box was sak's. Now I like a sak as much as the next person, they have alot going for them. I have no idea how they do it, but Victorinox has consistancy in manufacture thats amazing. Plus the red handle with the silver cross is sheeple friendly in the extreme. Then it hit me- yeah, sheeple friendly.
For many years now, no matter what soddie or barlow I have in a pocket, I've always had a Victorinox classic on my key ring. It is actually a handy little tool for opening packages in public, and the sissors work well for broken nails as there is evern a nail file on them. I've used the tweezers to pull a tick off Pearl the wonder corgi a couple of times. But most of all, the sheeple who have seen it (its my loan out knife for that "do you have a knife" thing) have thought it cute. I've even given them out as stocking stuffers to the non-knife and female members of the family and they were a big hit. So the idea came to me.
I rooted through the boxes and one box was the small saks like the classics. The price sign on the box was 3.00 or 2 for 5.00. I found several that under all the gummy dirt were in very good shape, most still having the original factory edge on them. She tells me they were airport confiscations, so that would account for them being so nice, but dirty. I picket out several of them and she made me a good deal, so I had a bunch of knives to give a bath to. Once home they cleaned up very well with some warm water and Dawn dish soap. They're all going to be give aways.
Many times I've had to cut something for somebody at a store or elsewhere in public because they did not have a knife. I've even seen them use the car key trying to saw through a cord or taped box lid. Now with a extra classic or two on my keyring I'm going to give away a knife to someone in need. I could be loosing whats left of the rest of my mind, but I have an idea. If a total sheeple is given a classic, a "cute" little non-threatening knife that they find really usefull, would thier outlook change a little?
Two years ago I did an experiment with some family members. Some of the family women and a couple of city cousins were non knife people. On a family outing I was always asked to cut something for one of them . Then I gave them all Vic classics. The women loved them. Personally I think it was the sissors and nail file that put it over the top for them. Anyway, over the next year I noticed a change, even among some of the older ones like aunt Jane and aunt Barbara. If they had to open or cut something they took thier keys out of thier purse and used thier little knife. Thier thoughts and behavior had changed a little. To the point that when I took out a small stockman to cut something, cousin Scott, a liberal from San Fransisco, looked closer and asked what kind of knife that one was. They had become curious! Some sort of ice had been broken, and now they were interested in a knife they saw some else using instead of seeing a threat.
Like I said, I may be out of my mind, but for the cost of very few dollars, I'm going to give out sak classics to strangers in need. Now when I give them the classic off the quick release snap on my key ring to cut something, I'm going to tell them to keep it, I have another. I'll never know if it worked, but maybe someplace down the line an attitude or two may be changed. Maybe like the Giddions, who leave bibles in hotel rooms on the chance that only a few will take it up, it worth the shot.
Or maybe its time for Karen to give me the rubber knives.
Last weekend there was a gun show at the AG center in Westminster Maryland, and I had one last rifle to sell. I had this Marlin papoose .22 semi auto that I never could have any faith in because of jamming problems in spite of a trip back to Marlin. I had bought it as a canoe/kayak gun, but I gave up on it. Nothing but lever actions and revolvers for me from now on.
Anyway, I sold the gun and wandered around the gun show. I found a lady with some cigar boxes full of old pocket knives that were in very dirty condition but most were in very good shape under the filth. One whole box was sak's. Now I like a sak as much as the next person, they have alot going for them. I have no idea how they do it, but Victorinox has consistancy in manufacture thats amazing. Plus the red handle with the silver cross is sheeple friendly in the extreme. Then it hit me- yeah, sheeple friendly.
For many years now, no matter what soddie or barlow I have in a pocket, I've always had a Victorinox classic on my key ring. It is actually a handy little tool for opening packages in public, and the sissors work well for broken nails as there is evern a nail file on them. I've used the tweezers to pull a tick off Pearl the wonder corgi a couple of times. But most of all, the sheeple who have seen it (its my loan out knife for that "do you have a knife" thing) have thought it cute. I've even given them out as stocking stuffers to the non-knife and female members of the family and they were a big hit. So the idea came to me.
I rooted through the boxes and one box was the small saks like the classics. The price sign on the box was 3.00 or 2 for 5.00. I found several that under all the gummy dirt were in very good shape, most still having the original factory edge on them. She tells me they were airport confiscations, so that would account for them being so nice, but dirty. I picket out several of them and she made me a good deal, so I had a bunch of knives to give a bath to. Once home they cleaned up very well with some warm water and Dawn dish soap. They're all going to be give aways.
Many times I've had to cut something for somebody at a store or elsewhere in public because they did not have a knife. I've even seen them use the car key trying to saw through a cord or taped box lid. Now with a extra classic or two on my keyring I'm going to give away a knife to someone in need. I could be loosing whats left of the rest of my mind, but I have an idea. If a total sheeple is given a classic, a "cute" little non-threatening knife that they find really usefull, would thier outlook change a little?
Two years ago I did an experiment with some family members. Some of the family women and a couple of city cousins were non knife people. On a family outing I was always asked to cut something for one of them . Then I gave them all Vic classics. The women loved them. Personally I think it was the sissors and nail file that put it over the top for them. Anyway, over the next year I noticed a change, even among some of the older ones like aunt Jane and aunt Barbara. If they had to open or cut something they took thier keys out of thier purse and used thier little knife. Thier thoughts and behavior had changed a little. To the point that when I took out a small stockman to cut something, cousin Scott, a liberal from San Fransisco, looked closer and asked what kind of knife that one was. They had become curious! Some sort of ice had been broken, and now they were interested in a knife they saw some else using instead of seeing a threat.
Like I said, I may be out of my mind, but for the cost of very few dollars, I'm going to give out sak classics to strangers in need. Now when I give them the classic off the quick release snap on my key ring to cut something, I'm going to tell them to keep it, I have another. I'll never know if it worked, but maybe someplace down the line an attitude or two may be changed. Maybe like the Giddions, who leave bibles in hotel rooms on the chance that only a few will take it up, it worth the shot.
Or maybe its time for Karen to give me the rubber knives.
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And not only did he feel left out, but he'd actually waited eagerly to get his knife on his birthday. Well, that same day I gave him a sak of his own. It's been his regular pocket-knife ever since, and he now happily pulls it out of his pocket every time something needs to be cut. In fact, he's now even starting to consider when is a good time to give his eldest son (who's now 3.5) his first knife.
