Question for Knife Nuts - Need some Sympathy

rogatsby

rogatsby

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Have you ever pulled out your knife to perform a mundane task and have friends or family roll their eyes and mock you? For example, a package (box) arrives. You pull out your knife to open it, and someone next to you rolls their eyes and rips the box open with their hands. :D

This is happening to me a lot. How about you?
 
rogatsby said:
Have you ever pulled out your knife to perform a mundane task and have friends or family roll their eyes and mock you? For example, a package (box) arrives. You pull out your knife to open it, and someone next to you rolls their eyes and rips the box open with their hands. :D

This is happening to me a lot. How about you?
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Nope. The people I know don't just grab things away from me that don't belong to them. ;)
 
Never happens to me. The only observer I might have to worry about is my wife and I converted her to a pocket-knife carrier a while ago, so she is just as likely as me to pull out a pocket knife to open something.

However, since you asked for sympathy - I feel sorry for you. :D
 
My father and grandfather were a hunters. My father was a hunter safety instructor , so I was taught how to use knives and firearms at a young age.
Plus I grew up during different times and carried knives from my teen years through adult hood.
So while I can't relate to your experiences, I really do have sympathy for you.
 
My wife's family always gives me crap about carrying a "weapon" (usually my Manix 2) but they sure are quick to look to me whenever they need something opened. I make a point to say "you could just carry your own knife" every time they ask for mine. I think its slowly sinking in. Christmas is a blast over there lol. I love watching my mother in law struggle to open packages with a dull kitchen knife before finally giving up and asking for mine. Can't wait to see the look on her face this year when I hand her my Socom.
 
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I used my knife to cut my dinner a few years ago on Christmas at my moms house because I didn't feel like getting back up for one of her cheap dull steak knives.
My brother asked me why I was using my pocket knife , then proceeds to pick the whole hunk of meat up with his fork and take a bite because he too had forgotten to bring a steak knife from the kitchen.

Other than that though it's just joking from family.
At one time I would about always have 5 blades on me with my Leatherman, tiny neck knife, plus a primary knife, small secondary, and leatherman Micra.
They'd joke about how I would be a kidnappers worst nightmare, I was gearing up for a war, or I was the guy to come see during an apocalypse.
 
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rogatsby said:
Have you ever pulled out your knife to perform a mundane task and have friends or family roll their eyes and mock you? For example, a package (box) arrives. You pull out your knife to open it, and someone next to you rolls their eyes and rips the box open with their hands. :D

This is happening to me a lot. How about you?
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What kind of knife do you "pull out" and how do you "deploy."

If you whipped out some comedically oversized knife to open a box, I'd look at you funny too.

By the way, for that record, that "funny look" doesn't necessarily mean they have an objection to knives.
 
Hickory n steel said:
I used my knife to cut my dinner a few years ago on Christmas at my moms house because I didn't feel like getting back up for one of her cheap dull steak knives.
My brother asked me why I was using my pocket knife , then proceeds to pick the whole hunk of meat up with his fork and take a bite because he too had forgotten to bring a steak knife from the kitchen.
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Either ask her for a knife or go get it.

Not using someone's utensils when you have gone there for dinner is discourteous, IMO. Eating their free food is good enough, but their cutlery isn't?
 
I carry a SAK for most of my little tasks. No one questions the Swiss, they've been safeguarded by our nations affinity for their cheese.

It usually amazes me how few people actually carry a knife at all. Like, so very few. I work in a high-end kitchen where we use knives literally all day to prep veg, open boxes, open packages, etc. I'm the only one in said kitchen with a pocket knife. Needless to say with me on staff, our kitchen knives are razor sharp ;)
 
Around here a midwest rural area ... most men and some women carry at least a slipjoint ... it's even very rare you hear a young person say anything negative about knives or guns they have grown up around them ... just part of life ...

I've never had anyone look at me funny for opening a package or even an envelope with a knife ... and definately never grabbed anything to tear it open for me ... most my family wants to check out any knife they haven't seen before and lots of peoole just say man I need a sharp knife mine won't do that.

I was in the big city Saturday in Lowes and a guy working there didn't even have a box cutter trying to open a package to get somethimg he just said thanks when I offered to cut it open for him with my Inkosi.
 
I don't feel unduly teased by my non-knife carrying friends and family. They all love and respect me and when they need a knife (which as you all know happens sometimes) they know who to ask. If they also tease me a little about what (they regard as) my eccentricity that's just appropriate. I do the same thing to them, in fondness. :)

PWatkins said:
Just stand there and do nothing the next time they need a clam shell package opened:D
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And roll your eyes. :)
 
marcinek said:
Either ask her for a knife or go get it.

Not using someone's utensils when you have gone there for dinner is discourteous, IMO. Eating their free food is good enough, but their cutlery isn't?
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It is a little discourteous unless you make a joke out of it at the dinner table. I tried out a Condor Kephart at a restaurant for the fun of it once, but it looked just like a dinner knife. The end result was that I needed to thin the edge down quite a bit to make it acceptably slicey.

I don't get picked on for my knife hobby. They know I like gadgets. Just bought a little cart to haul groceries in from the garage or driveway. Saw a neighbor using one and I thought... you know, that's a good useful idea. (My cart is better. :D) I can bring everything in in one trip now. ;) Yes, Marcinek, I know this last paragraph was not knife oriented, so I'll save you the breath.

Rogatsby, we'll just have to have a pity party.
 
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marcinek said:
What kind of knife do you "pull out" and how do you "deploy."

If you whipped out some comedically oversized knife to open a box, I'd look at you funny too.

By the way, for that record, that "funny look" doesn't necessarily mean they have an objection to knives.
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Dude, I normally carry a Dragonfly or a Delica. Hardly oversized lol
 
rogatsby said:
Dude, I normally carry a Dragonfly or a Delica. Hardly oversized lol
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ok. We don't really know anything about you, dude. If you are not being obnoxious about it, then I would not see what their issue is.

I have, honestly, never had anybody bat an eye and I live and work at what most would consider "sheeple" ground zero.
 
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I don't get picked on for my knife hobby. They know I like gadgets. Just bought a little cart to haul groceries in from the garage or driveway. Saw a neighbor using one and I thought... you know, that's a good useful idea. (My cart is better. :D) I can bring everything in in one trip now. ;) Yes, Marcinek, I know this last paragraph was not knife oriented, so I'll save you the breath.
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That's a mistake. I'm only going to use it to talk more! :D

But I am with you, I've never gotten picked on or looked at funny for it. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
 
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