Share Your Conversations with Non Knife People

[John_0917]

"You know the blade can only be as big as your four fingers right?"

(I pull out my knifeup.com bookmark on my phone) "Read this. Read all of it"

I actually saw an episode of COPS, an old one, from Florida, where the officer being shown actually said that to the camera after the guy he arrested was carrying a knife. He held up his hand next to the blade (which was longer) and said that the four fingers rule was the law (...facepalm...)...that's like the NYC "gravity knife" definition and test where they hold it by the blade and shake it...I don't practice criminal law, but that test is just begging to be challenged like many field sobriety test methods have been over the years (and why even accepted ones are constantly being ruled inadmissible, I have a couple friends who do DWI defense and are more than a little proud of their success rates at suppressing FTSs).

If one had inch wide fingers then they either need to A)lose weight or B) seek treatment for Elephantiasis!

 

[coinbuysell]

Bottom line, the only problem I ever had with someone was a secretary in my office who needed a thick package opened. Her scissors just weren't making it, but I took out my Cold Steel 4-inch Voyager and opened it in seconds. Later my boss called me in and asked to see my knife. So like any clear thinking guy in an office full of women, I pulled out my 3-inch Voyager (same model as the 4-incher in my other pocket, but smaller). She had apparently been expecting the knife to be larger, but she told me that I didn't need a knife as part of my job requirements, and she asked me not to bring my knife to work anymore. And being a good employee, I took both knives home and left them there. The next day, I took my CS Voyager 5-inch and later that year, after being ganged up on by two Red Setter dogs and barely escaping without a bite. After that, I carried my Cold Steel Vaquero Grande, with a 6-inch serrated blade, but the secretaries never saw it. And next time they needed help cutting something, I wasn't available. Here I was getting in trouble for a 4-inch knife (3-inch, really), and here these two women were jabbing their 7-inch scissor blades into the package with complete impunity!

Only in Amerika. I'm just glad I outsmarted them. And I never brought those smaller knives back again!

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I get that all of the time with my blur??? in my pocket in the International Fortune 50 company that I work for and one finally turned me in to our director, never actually took it out of my pocket b/c that s30v blade looks pretty damn scary and the Speedsafe would scare most of them enough to sh.. their pants, so I had to ask her what was that lady looking at That's sexual harassment! With our LBGT and every other type non-discrimination group that we have I couldn't resist...she is from West TX so she laughed and asked to see it and said "wtf, I thought you were carrying a big knife???" LOVE HER!

So I bought an Avalanche to carry at work, it is about 1/8" smaller and a little lighter due to the G-10 handle so it is not so noticeable but it was more because those damn Tech-Tac grips (or what ever they are) were torturing my thigh through those thin dress pants ... I still carry it on jeans Friday and all weekend though!

 

[mcg4248]

I just think it's funny how different some people are. We like knives, we like using them, fondling them, expanding our knowledge on them, etc. luckily my parents don't mind as I'm 21 and my dad has had me use and learn weapons and tools at an early age (he's a colonel in the military and a green beret and sergeant in our PD) so I've learned to appreciate and take care of knives whereas others foster and cultivate other hobbies as they're allowed to. Although I try not to pay attention to it, it's unfortunate people judge your character because of a hobby you're very passionate about and spend a lot of time learning things about that hobby. Such is life I suppose.