True Story!

My son (27 years old) does two things habitually. One is to carry a ZT 0350 everywhere he goes. The second thing he does is shed the knife and his wallet as soon as he walks in the door at home or at my place.

This morning he asked for my knife to cut stitch that held a pair of socks together so he wouldn't have to go get his.

If he'd have opened the Letherman Raptor I got him first, he'd have had his own cutting tool at hand to separate the ugly Christmas socks that my wife got for he and I. :p
 
I remember one time I was going to summer camp. I was about 10-12 years old and wanted to bring a knife, because hey, it's summer camp. I wanted to bring my SAK but was worried they might not allow it and take it, instead I brought a POS Winchester money clip knife like device abomination. Turns out the knife was not needed for anything but opening a packet of ketchup, when I pulled it out one of the counselors saw it and said "oh, a knife. No one has every brought one of those." they didn't take it ( can't imagine why?:rolleyes:), but I remember even at that age thinking "why wouldn't you have a knife?" Apparently they weren't knife people.
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HappyDaddy said:
I play golf. In any given foursome with which I play regularly (all single digit handicappers), the odds are very good that three of us will have knives in our pockets. It's hard for this Southern boy to relate.
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Mike45ACP said:
I live in upstate NY, just outside of Ithaca. I can't say I've ever had a negative reaction to someone seeing a knife being pulled. I think it may be more of a city vs country as opposed to north vs south?

Mike
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I live in New England, at home on the Cape, and spend a fair amount of time at our place in rural Vermont. I work construction on the Cape and have contributed toward making this pretty much a suburban area. The reaction here depends on where you are and who you're with as there are both blue collar guys with knives clipped in their jeans and those more office-oriented to deal with in the course of the day.

At our place up North, where most of my neighbors are hands-on and tool/utility oriented, a knife is just a knife, but a modern folder flicked or flipped out can still conjure images of urban switch-blades to Vermonters more accustomed to sheathed fixed hunters or traditional folders. There's plenty of younger locals that are knife guys, though not at the higher price-points found here on the forums. There's also lots of colleges, transplants, and those with different sensibilities up there who are less than sympathetic with things like the right to bear arms or the practicality of self-sufficiency and the tools required toward that end.

New England, even toward the fringes, is an increasingly hybridized area, and what I find is no matter where you are you can never be sure what sort of reaction you'll get when you take out your knife for a simple cutting task.
 
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Every Christmas it's the same thing, presents come out and with the way kids toys are packed it's only a moment before someone asks me if I have my knife, this is one of my favorite moments of the holiday; I can't explain why but I find so much joy when I reply " I have my pants on, don't I ".
Silly thing, but it makes me laugh inside every time.
 
1AbominAble1 said:
Every Christmas it's the same thing, presents come out and with the way kids toys are packed it's only a moment before someone asks me if I have my knife, this is one of my favorite moments of the holiday; I can't explain why but I find so much joy when I reply " I have my pants on, don't I ".
Silly thing, but it makes me laugh inside every time.
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Christmas, kids, pants. Definitely an appropriate combination.
 
At my last place of employment, a woman repeatedly complained to my superiors that I was carrying a knife at work. Then whenever she needed a box opened, she would ask me to open it. I opted to let her use her keys for those boxes.

At my current job, one day I was cutting some of my fresh figs in half for a coworker, and she then asked, with an incredulous tone, "Why do you carry a knife?" It was not even an evil tactical knife, it was a GEC 73.

So many people today have such a disconnect. Hollywood and politicians of a certain stripe have done a good job of brainwashing people into believing that any knife that is used in public should be viewed as a dangerous weapon. And a lot of these same people would not bat an eyelid if they saw you using a 10" knife in your own kitchen.

Christmas today had me opening multiple packages for the grandkids. My son-in-law asked me if I was only carrying one knife. They know me too well. When asked how many knives I'm carrying, I often ask them how many pockets I have.
 
My older sister lives in New York and brought her boyfriend home to Kentucky a couple of years ago. I gave him his first taste of moonshine, took him shooting and let him drive a car for the first time. It was like he was from another planet or something.
 
Gafishing said:
Hahaha

My kids where opening up presents this morning and couldn't open the boxes. My wife looked at me and said: "where is your knife mr. I need to buy a new knife every week" as I didn't have one on me.
#fail
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[awesome]knife fail[/awesome]

I actually had something similar... Folks looking to get something cut, my wife looks at me with that look of feigned, sarcastic disbelief.

"You just bought two knives in the last ten days..." she says.

I shrug my shoulders and say "Yeah, but those aren't for using." :D
 
Velitrius said:
[awesome]knife fail[/awesome]

I actually had something similar... Folks looking to get something cut, my wife looks at me with that look of feigned, sarcastic disbelief.

"You just bought two knives in the last ten days..." she says.

I shrug my shoulders and say "Yeah, but those aren't for using." :D
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I laughed out loud Vel.....literally!!
 
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