Some people NEED to stick with $5 knives

The Logical One

The Logical One

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EDIT: I need a $5 knife because I hate getting my nice ones scratched up.

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His FINGERNAIL scratched the metal lockbar on your Strider??? I thought those were for "hard use." Just be glad he did not cut himself fumbling to unlock it. It might be good to carry a smaller slipjoint of low cost to lend to friends and keep the delicate high-end stuff out of view.
 
The Logical One said:
I made a huge mistake tonight of letting one of my friends hold my Strider, he's one of those guys who thinks it's ridonkulous that I would pay $500 for a knife. He carries $5 swap-meet knives and thinks they're just fine.

He was trying to close it and I saw him struggling with it a bit and I was like... "whoa whoa let me do it". I got home and noticed there's a nice fresh scratch on the frame lock bar from his finger slipping and scratching it with his nail....... #*#(*$*)%$$%!@!!!!

I carry all of my knives.... knives that are expensive and rare. I play with them often and I use them sometimes, but they are all in pristine condition. I let this guy touch it for 10 seconds and he manages to scratch a stonewashed finish enough for it to be very noticeable. I am quite pissed.... that is the last time I'm letting anybody touch my knives.

:mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Hmm, not sure what to make of this. I will ne nice and not say what most people will be thinking upon reading the OP.
 
I'm pretty sure that "scratch" is nothing more that a thin layer of fingernaio rubbing off on the knife.....I don't know of too many people with fingernails hard enough to scratch anodized titanium.

Also...you need to chill out. Who cares if there's a small scratch on your so called "hard use" knife. You like your knives as jewellry...maybe you should've stuck with something like a MOP William Henry.
 
yeah just keep them to yourself. People never treat other people's property as well as the owner wants them to be treated.
 
If you are afraid of people damaging your high-end knives, carry a Douk-Douk or Opinel sharpened to a razor edge and let them play with that. Leave a roll of gauze nearby.
 
Sounds like this guy doesn't even need to borrow a knife; his fingernails will do anything a knife will.
 
All of your condescending comments left a deep scratch in my soul like the way my friend left the scratch on my knife.... I'm going to go cut myself now because I'm emo.
 
The Logical One said:
All of your condescending comments left a deep scratch in my soul like the way my friend left the scratch on my knife.... I'm going to go cut myself now because I'm emo.
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Have fun with that. Hope you don't stain the blade and ruin it. :rolleyes:
 
I'd bet money you can rub it out- I've had enough of those kind of scratches

But id rather you keep cutting yourself so have fun!
 
Esav Benyamin said:
If you are afraid of people damaging your high-end knives, carry a Douk-Douk or Opinel sharpened to a razor edge and let them play with that. Leave a roll of gauze nearby.
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+1111111

They'll proubly do more damage(to themselves) with an Opinel than your precious strider
 
I wonder who needs to stick with 5 dollar knives? The people that freak about marking up their expensive ones? Or, the people that don't care about expensive ones?
 
I know your pain, my friend. It's always hard to say, "No," to a good friend... but if that friend is a dumb-ass, then you have no choice. And by the way, I think you are 100% justified in being angry. Dude scratched your Strider!

Case in point: a very good friend of mine came over to my house with his family this weekend (wife and kid). I've stayed with them a few times this year, and so they decided to have a cheap family vacation at my place for the weekend before he starts a new job next week. Problems started as soon as they arrived. First, my house is bigger and nicer than theirs even though I'm single. The jealousy and snide remarks began immediately. They had no respect for my shit. For example, they left my towels at the water park. When I asked them why they left my very expensive, 5-star hotel-quality towels at the freakin' water park, they just shrugged and looked indignant, like "Oh, you care about that? You're cheap." Their kid threw up on my couch while I was out, and they didn't clean it up. They rummaged through my kitchen cabinets and fridge, opening brand-new, unopened bottles and packages of drinks and foods just to take one sip or one bite.

And they never said "Thank you" once the whole time, not even when they left. In fact, every time I treated them, they acted like they were entitled to it and got indignant when I mentioned a few times that we should eat something cheaper (they always wanted to go to nice restaurants). Their attitude was horrible the whole time. And the last day was the worst. My friend started f***ing with my head by making out-of-nowhere comments about my ex-girlfriend (he knows it was a bad breakup that still bothers me). I mean, out of nowhere he started making those comments. It was all I could do to not punch his f**ing lights out in front of his little son.

I sent them off with a smile but inside I was really angry, and I had a deeper understanding of why some people have less than others. I know that some people are genuinely the victims of bad luck or discrimination. But some are just pure dumb-asses who don't know how to act properly. Unfortunately, my friend is one of those people. Frankly, the sad truth is that he deserves his miserable, broke-ass life.

I still love him to death. So that's the complicated part of it. At my darkest hours, he was sometimes the only one who'd give me a call or write to me, but... he ain't ever welcome at my house again.

I know that has nothing to do with your Strider, but I think in the future, when a dumb-ass friend of mine asks me to borrow my Strider (or come spend a weekend at my nice house), I'm gonna say, "No." When they ask why, I'll find some excuse to make it sound not as bad. But if I'm in a bad mood, I'll probably just tell him the truth, "Because you're a dumb-ass and you f*** everything up." LOL :P
 
wow his fingernails are awesome if we all had fingernails like that there would be no need for knives
 
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