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I guess I just speak that way. But seriously, I have really bad ADHD, and I hate sitting still at a desk for hours on end. I hate school, and I don't want a job just like school. I like working with my hands; it gives me a sense of accomplishment.
Haha yeah they got rid of all that. I wish we still had it. I love whittling. I can't though, because I don't have a knife [emoji23]
It's time to up the ante in this battle of parentnoia. OK, here's the plan: Show your dad and grandpa that you're going to turn into a vegan hipster if they continue to take your knives and/or suppress your manly blue-collar desires.
Start by wearing skinny jeans. Quickly work up to wearing mismatched plaids, then tighten up the screws by sweeping your hair over one eye. Practice bad posture and adopt a holier-than-thou attitude about everything. They'll cave like the locking mechanism on a batoned folding knife that's virtually as strong as a fixed blade.
Here's a visual aid to help them rethink their position:
He's actually correct, you don't have to be 18 to buy a knife here. Some how, in all the crazy wording and nonsensical bias, they forgot that part lol. However you DO have to be 18 to purchase and carry pepper spray. So if you want your 16 year old daughter to be able to defend herself, you can forget that. Most (reasonable) shops won't sell to anyone under 18 without a parent though. We don't at our shop. In fact I made the mistake of handing a 15 year old kid a knife to look at. He said his dad lets him use and look at knives plus it was the Hest crow knife (collectors art piece). Suddenly I hear him say "That's why my mom always tells me to not play with knives..." and I look over to see that yes, he cut himself. Great... He won't accept a bandaid and leaves. 10min later, here comes a lady storming through the door dragging this kid with her. "Did you give my son a knife?!" I was able to finally calm her down and apologize profusely. Telling her I was an idiot to do so without a parent helped. She made him accept the bandaid and we actually joked around for a minute, then *amazingly* she let her clumsy son handle a couple more knives that he wanted to see. Couldn't believe it. Anyways, point being, yes its legal to sell to under 18, but if he hurts himself then its the parents you have to deal with. Needless to say, I don't even let them look at them without a parent and if they act a fool with it, they're done looking.
Impressive! Very nice workI remember when my youngest first asked about a knife of his own. We were on vacation in Jackson Hole and he found some cheap imports that he liked, some because they were tacticool, and others because they resembled some of mine. Said he wanted that to be his souvenir and wanted to start a collection. He was only 9 or 10 at the time. I was both proud and a little nervous at the same time. But he has been very responsible, and now has close to 40. When he turned 13, I got him a ZT566 which he thought was pretty cool. Then wanted to make a belt sheath for it because it was his best one of the pack. I talked him through the process, but he did all the work himself so he could apply it towards his scout leatherwork merit badge. Went surfing to find the style he wanted...something that looked like an old revolver holster. He drew his own pattern (took about ten renditions to get the sizing right). I was pretty dang proud to see the finished product. Here is what he came up with.
