Howdy!
Got a story for ya.
With a surprisingly happy ending.
So here I am.
In the break-room at work.
Currently using my PM2 to cut up a cheese block.
Table next to me has 4 of my coworker friends at it.
Its no secret that I like knives as a hobby, so one of em speaks up trying to pick on me.
Person A: "Is that one of your $500 knives?"
Person B: "$500 knife!?"
Me: "Nope. More in the $200-ish range, give or take."
Person B: "Thats nuts. Why?"
I then explain about the knife, and that knives are a hobby bigger than they realize, and to my shock they listen.
Person A: "lemme see it"
Its a user, all scratched and such. I'm not scared so I close it with a flick and hand it to him
Person C: "THATS ILLEGAL TOO!!!"
Me: "Why? I can assure you it isnt. Not to mention I bought it like 20 miles from here."
Person C: "You just flicked it closed. Thats a gravity knife! And it doesn't matter where you bought it, you can buy Crack 20 miles from here too and thats illegal. I just read the other day that people are getting arrested and such for stuff like that."
I decided to stay calm, and let him freak out and make himself look like a fool
Me: "You're partially right. But this doesn't fall into that category."
The guy I handed it to disengages the lock and it doesn't fall on its own.
Person A (with my knife): "Gravity has no effect on the blade as you see. Why are you getting so worked up? "
The "knife cop" was getting flustered and raising his voice more and more.
Person B: "Im tellin ya. That will get ya in trouble. I just read it the other day in a letter sent to me by my gun-club"
Long story short, I explained it a bit more and he learned, and actually believed me.
Not very often a situation like that turns out good, but it did.
FWIW, I live in UPSTATE NY. Farm country. Everybody carries a knife of varying size and shape and 95% of the time no one bats an eye.
Any of y'all got anything similar to share?
Got a story for ya.
With a surprisingly happy ending.
So here I am.
In the break-room at work.
Currently using my PM2 to cut up a cheese block.
Table next to me has 4 of my coworker friends at it.
Its no secret that I like knives as a hobby, so one of em speaks up trying to pick on me.
Person A: "Is that one of your $500 knives?"
Person B: "$500 knife!?"
Me: "Nope. More in the $200-ish range, give or take."
Person B: "Thats nuts. Why?"
I then explain about the knife, and that knives are a hobby bigger than they realize, and to my shock they listen.
Person A: "lemme see it"
Its a user, all scratched and such. I'm not scared so I close it with a flick and hand it to him
Person C: "THATS ILLEGAL TOO!!!"
Me: "Why? I can assure you it isnt. Not to mention I bought it like 20 miles from here."
Person C: "You just flicked it closed. Thats a gravity knife! And it doesn't matter where you bought it, you can buy Crack 20 miles from here too and thats illegal. I just read the other day that people are getting arrested and such for stuff like that."
I decided to stay calm, and let him freak out and make himself look like a fool
Me: "You're partially right. But this doesn't fall into that category."
The guy I handed it to disengages the lock and it doesn't fall on its own.
Person A (with my knife): "Gravity has no effect on the blade as you see. Why are you getting so worked up? "
The "knife cop" was getting flustered and raising his voice more and more.
Person B: "Im tellin ya. That will get ya in trouble. I just read it the other day in a letter sent to me by my gun-club"
Long story short, I explained it a bit more and he learned, and actually believed me.
Not very often a situation like that turns out good, but it did.
FWIW, I live in UPSTATE NY. Farm country. Everybody carries a knife of varying size and shape and 95% of the time no one bats an eye.
Any of y'all got anything similar to share?
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