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mete

mete

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We broke for lunch and someone brought sandwiches in 12" long loaves. One little old lady took one and was going to share it . She asked if anyone had a knife .I was right there and instantly said yes and pulled out my folder. She never looked at me while she just tore the sandwich in half. Dejected and rejected I folded my knife and slunk away !
 
Don't feel bad, my wife keeps sanitizing wipes to wipe my blade down, if I need to cut the grandkids lunch or dinner meats. Down right :o when she does that.

Of course, I might have just cleaned out my nails from gardening.:D

Jim
 
I was at a kids beach party the other day and had a similar thing happen. A Mom asked me if I had a knife she could use to cut the water melon. I said yes and handed her my Leatherman. She said she knew I would have one. I was glowing with satisfaction. She then opened a blade that was covered with hardened pitch (I did some pitch harvesting not long before). She grimaced, but I quickly pointed out the serrated blade would be better and was clean. She got it out with great relief, and proceeded to clean it to within an inch of its life before using it.
 
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I wouldn't feel too dejected, mete; I probably wouldn't have used your pocket knife on food I was going to eat either.

When I was doing carpet cleaning and restoration (flood & sewer backup) my knife got used for all manner of the nasty of nastiest carpet & underpad, when I quit that job I boiled my knife for 15 minutes in bleach water.
 
That's why I carry a separate "food knife". I've got a folder for general knife tasks, a necker for box opening, etc, and a fixed blade for steaks, etc. Everybody I know knows that I have my "food knife" and so it's never been an issue for me :)

-d
 
I am a college professor - normally when I pull out my EDC to help someone with what they need cut - they are amazed I get it out of the sheath that fast - and the are scared I carry a knife.

Sheesh - it is a BRKT Mikro-Tusk - not a damned Claymore!

TF
 
Apparently there's a whole bunch of people who have never spent a week in fish camp or hunting camp.
Never heard of anyone coming home sick either.
Wipe your knife on your pant leg and get on with it.
 
I always keep my tools in proper condition.The knife in question had been cleaned the night before .Maybe I should have gotten my BK-7 truck knife to get her attention !!
 
Karl B. Andersen said:
Wipe your knife on your pant leg and get on with it.
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I agree completely with you Karl. Everytime I get mine out to use she will ask me is that clean and I wipe it on my pants leg and say it is now. :) For some reason she never sees the humor in that. :D
 
69_knives said:
When I was doing carpet cleaning and restoration (flood & sewer backup) my knife got used for all manner of the nasty of nastiest carpet & underpad, when I quit that job I boiled my knife for 15 minutes in bleach water.
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You definitely have a point regarding extreme situations like that.

I do keep my EDC folder reasonably clean, I'm just not super-anal about it. And yup, I use it on food daily. Cutting veggies, spreading peanut butter, etc. To me, that's part of the "every-day" in EDC, just as much as opening envelopes or whatever. In my little circle of friends, I'm the guy everyone looks to when they need something cut. "James, you got a knife?" "Does a bear poop in the woods?" :D
 
James_Terrio said:
You definitely have a point regarding extreme situations like that.

I do keep my EDC folder reasonably clean, I'm just not super-anal about it. And yup, I use it on food daily. Cutting veggies, spreading peanut butter, etc. To me, that's part of the "every-day" in EDC, just as much as opening envelopes or whatever. In my little circle of friends, I'm the guy everyone looks to when they need something cut. "James, you got a knife?" "Does a bear poop in the woods?" :D
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Ain't it funny how people come to assume a certain individual can be counted on to have a certain tool available, even at work?

At my last job I was amazed how many people started coming to me for a particular item. People would say to me: "I knew you would have a knife" or something similar.

I had occasion to hear a manager walking down the toward the direction of my cubicle saying "If I had a pry bar I could bend it back." I didn't know what he was talking about bending but I held a pry bar over the wall of my cubicle. As the manager past my cube he just took the pry bar without saying anything. I later heard that he had mentioned to some other people without mentioning my name that a pry bar appeared over the wall and someone spoke up and said "Dave?" Now why would someone assume he got the pry bar from me?

Do you think folks thing we're a little bent because we have knives available? But they always depend on us tho, don't they?
 
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