Really Stupid, but it worked

I would contact him and try to buy it back.
Maybe he doesn't know the full value of a knife like that. ;)


Sag.
 
Well, the daughter knew how much an FBM LE was worth (I showed her the price on BCS while she was with us during Xmas), and would've found out if I'd given him one of the other Busse knives I have, so now she is suitably humbled. She is now at college living with her older sister who has been able to influence her life in ways I never could, and so the line of boys waiting to date my daughter is no longer much of a factor. Something about the older one being kinda a 5'11" 225 lb gladiator build "mother hen" type post grad has most of the bad boys on campus practicing avoidance better than dad standing at the door with the shotgun did, go figure.

Anyways, these two girls are most likely my retirement, or a good chunck of it, so any guilt I can lay on them now that will only deepen with time is probably a good investment, so long as they don't turn into old maids. Not much chance of that happening unless they become nuns. It is a healthy guilt trip, much the same as going to Baghdad for a year to help pay for their college bills etc spurred them into getting with the program a little.

As for the ex boyfriend? Well, he was a decent enough kid, maybe more the victim of bad timing than anything else. I figured he got a suitable consolation gift for letting go of my daughter so she wouldn't be so hung up on him before heading out of state. Seems to have worked all around, and now I have an excuse to buy more INFI.

BTW, I was a bit mistaken about the knife. It was only a recent vintage FBM with crinkle finish, not an LE. That was my BATAC, which is never getting "gifted" to anybody. However, the wife and daughter now think that I parted with a much more expensive knife because of my "recall error", so looks like I might be looking to score one of those FBM LEs now. Since they aren't talking to the ex anymore, I think I may get away with one.

See all things work out if you keep your wits about you, and pray, pray to the INFI gods for salvation and sacrifice....
 
benjammin2 said:
Well, the daughter knew how much an FBM LE was worth (I showed her the price on BCS while she was with us during Xmas), and would've found out if I'd given him one of the other Busse knives I have, so now she is suitably humbled. She is now at college living with her older sister who has been able to influence her life in ways I never could, and so the line of boys waiting to date my daughter is no longer much of a factor. Something about the older one being kinda a 5'11" 225 lb gladiator build "mother hen" type post grad has most of the bad boys on campus practicing avoidance better than dad standing at the door with the shotgun did, go figure.

Anyways, these two girls are most likely my retirement, or a good chunck of it, so any guilt I can lay on them now that will only deepen with time is probably a good investment, so long as they don't turn into old maids. Not much chance of that happening unless they become nuns. It is a healthy guilt trip, much the same as going to Baghdad for a year to help pay for their college bills etc spurred them into getting with the program a little.

As for the ex boyfriend? Well, he was a decent enough kid, maybe more the victim of bad timing than anything else. I figured he got a suitable consolation gift for letting go of my daughter so she wouldn't be so hung up on him before heading out of state. Seems to have worked all around, and now I have an excuse to buy more INFI.

BTW, I was a bit mistaken about the knife. It was only a recent vintage FBM with crinkle finish, not an LE. That was my BATAC, which is never getting "gifted" to anybody. However, the wife and daughter now think that I parted with a much more expensive knife because of my "recall error", so looks like I might be looking to score one of those FBM LEs now. Since they aren't talking to the ex anymore, I think I may get away with one.

See all things work out if you keep your wits about you, and pray, pray to the INFI gods for salvation and sacrifice....
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Very nice! :thumbup: :D You better order your LE from the Co. Store before Skunk runs out. :D
 
Considering all the money he would have had to end up spending on her plus the knife, he got a very financially good deal :)

With my luck, whatever girl I date will have a dad who thinks frosts are the epitome of craftsmanship and beauty in a knife :(
 
hmm... I go to UNC... any chance she's going there?... 'cause when the INFI bug bites me again, I'll be needing her number... :D
 
She's nowhere near UNC. She only owns one Busse knife, one of a matched set, that she said she's never giving up. Now that she is more aware of their value, I doubt I will have to give another one away. More likely she/I will have to be bought off with INFI before she will take another candidate for her affections seriously.

Ah, Daddy's little girl!

You see, I set the example, she follows.
 
Well, that is the dilemma I face. If I were to give a prospective date a cheap knife, then the daughter will take that as a reflection of the value I place on her, and I will get her "treatment" (this being the sort of thing that fathers would rather avoid, much like getting "The Stinky Eye" from the wife when I have screwed up, but more poignant). So I was pretty much stuck giving up the boodle. Like I said, daughter has since learned to appreciate more which side her bread gets buttered on now, so no more knife giveaways from my end. More likely I expect to be getting more goodies as the daughter learns how to better manipulate these young men.

At least that's how I remember things working when I was a young buck.
 
acutally, I have an even better idea.... I know it's a really long shot, but does said former boyfriend have a sister who goes to UNC?... perhaps one he's very protective of, and would rather part with some newly acquired INFI in order to prevent her from dating some guy he knows nothing about... :D
 
Nope, and he caught wise to the value of the knife I gave him too (hence didn't cry too hard when the daughter finally gave him up). I am certain that knife ain't going nowhere now either. What's more, he knows how hard it was for me to give it up to him, so I doubt he'd forsake it anymore than he would've my daughter's virtue, or risk my wrath.

Young men are stupid (heck, I was once so I know how it goes). Even so, there are some lines you just instinctively know not to cross unless you have lost a love of life. This was one of those Sam Kennison (sp) "Sacred" moments. Of course, it always helps to make direct eye contact with your prey, especially when you are looking down at them. I am real pleased to be 6'6" tall and weigh 260+. I make a suitable impression on the boys that cross my threshold that way, especially holding a big FBM while telling them "This is for you" wearing a most serious grin. I am told it makes for an image that haunts their dreams.

That is a good thing.
 
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