What is the dumbest comment someone has made about your knife?

andyhth said:
I feel naked when I fly and have to put my knives in my checked baggage. First thing I do when I arrive is to take them out and put it in pocket. Small William Henry B10 and a small Boker.
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Same here on the feeling naked. Last summer my wife and I went to Europe with only carry-on luggage, so no knife at all. Once there, I was able to borrow a small SAK from the stepfather of a good friend. He even honed it up before lending it. It got a lot of use cutting food on trains mostly, and I would have bought one if I hadn't been able to borrow one, then gifted it to my last host before our return.

As we were preparing to return to the States, the customs guy in Munich asked me if I had anything dangerous in my bag, I told him, "Yeah, I've got 5 kilos of fine German chocolate in there and my waistline is in serious jeopardy!" He laughed and suggested I needed to give him some of it for safety's sake. It was a great trip.

Bill
 
Paying for gas one day the girl behind the counter looked at my neck knife and asked if it was a knife to which I replied "yes". "Isn't that a concealed weapon?" came back at me. The guy with her behind the till looked at her and said "If it was concealed how did you see it?". I did not have to say anything (she had no comeback) and that felt good- probably should have tipped the guy.
 
Bill1170 said:
As we were preparing to return to the States, the customs guy in Munich asked me if I had anything dangerous in my bag, I told him, "Yeah, I've got 5 kilos of fine German chocolate in there and my waistline is in serious jeopardy!" He laughed and suggested I needed to give him some of it for safety's sake. It was a great trip.

Bill
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That's too funny :D. Sounds like you had a really good trip.
 
I pulled out my Tenacious to cut my daughters straw, and my wife says "You know, you're skinning a deer". :rolleyes: Yes I still love her.
 
I was giving my future father-in-law a tour of my new Leatherman Surge (he's a tool guy, too), and I showed him the woodsaw. His brother's girlfriend comments "That's brutal. Stay away from me."

My fiance enjoyed seeing her dad and me simultaneously give the girl the same "WTF is wrong with you?" look.
 
I went to drop off my 2 daughters at a huge birthday sleepover a couple years ago (they were 10 and 11 years old then). My wife and I are friends with the parents of the birthday girl and they live in a big house on some acreage in the country. There were must have been 40 girls there ranging from 8 to 14. Most of them we knew.

They were running around the property gathering sticks/branches for a marshmallow roasting and about 7 ran up to me sticks in hand and asked me "Can you sharpen the sticks for us?"

"Sure..." I say.

So I pull out my Endura 4 and grabbed one of the sticks. There was silence as all were staring at me wide-eyed. I stopped when I noticed this and said "What?".

Then there were 3 questions thrown out at once - "Why do you have knife?", "Are you allowed to carry that?", Why do you have that?". :eek:

So I put it away and stuck out my index finger and pretended to sharpen the stick with my finger. They looked at me and said "You can do that!" :confused:

At which point I said "Exactly!!!" and pulled out my knife again and sharpened all their sticks. They thanked my and went on their merry way. Lesson over. ;)
 
"Owww! Why is this So sharp?"

"Why do you carry a pocket knife? I have never needed one."

"How do you close this thing?"

"Have you ever stabbed anyone?"

;)
 
People are discomforted by knives and especially if someone around them is carrying one when it seems unnecessary for him or her to do so. A knife is a weapon as much as it is a tool.

Ok, so I guess one of the more "stupid" or at least surprising reactions is that classic "you're-a-#&%!ing-psycho" look I've gotten when I've offered to make someones kitchen knives so sharp that they could shave with them, as a favor. I suppose it falls under the why-do-you-need-such-sharp-knives category.
 
stoffi said:
People are discomforted by knives and especially if someone around them is carrying one when it seems unnecessary for him or her to do so. A knife is a weapon as much as it is a tool.
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I disagree with the "as much as" part. A knife can be used as a weapon and some are designed specifically as combat knives, but even a hunter would use a gun to kill and animal and a knife to gut/skin it - the gun is the weapon in that case and the knife is a tool. I have a bunch of knives in the kitchen, as potentially dangerous as they may be they only ever get used as tools.

I think that knives are over 95% tools, less than 5% weapons. Definitely not weapons "as much as" tools. I am over 40 years old and so far I have only ever cut one person with a knife and that was myself!

To make the sheeple less anxious I answer the question "what's that (pointing to the holster on my belt) there?" with "Oh, that's a multitool" and I show them the pliers. I don't show off the insanely (from a sheeple POV) sharp & pointy blade on my LM Wave unless I actually need to cut something.
 
When people ask my why I have a 6" knife on my side I tell'em its Montana Man Jewelry. I take it out and show them the Damascus raindrop steel, water buffalo horn and Mastodon Ivory knife I made, hand it to them... and they NEVER hold it like a knife, admire it and hand it back.

When asked or told its a concealed weapon, I tell them its OK, the Sheriff asked me to carry it and gave me a special concealed weapon permit for it... and I like to carry the knife when I carry my .45. They then get quiet.
 
dePaul said:
The most common question is: "Why is your knife so sharp?"

~Paul~
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I dunno, why are your wheels so round? Why does your cellphone
get so much reception? Why does your watch keep giving the time?

Surprisingly I have not received to many dumb questions, but that's
cause I keep my hobby quiet.
 
Gadgetaholic said:
I disagree with the "as much as" part. A knife can be used as a weapon and some are designed specifically as combat knives, but even a hunter would use a gun to kill and animal and a knife to gut/skin it - the gun is the weapon in that case and the knife is a tool. I have a bunch of knives in the kitchen, as potentially dangerous as they may be they only ever get used as tools.

I think that knives are over 95% tools, less than 5% weapons. Definitely not weapons "as much as" tools. I am over 40 years old and so far I have only ever cut one person with a knife and that was myself!

To make the sheeple less anxious I answer the question "what's that (pointing to the holster on my belt) there?" with "Oh, that's a multitool" and I show them the pliers. I don't show off the insanely (from a sheeple POV) sharp & pointy blade on my LM Wave unless I actually need to cut something.
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Let me rephrase myself, so that you may understand my point. A knife is potentially a weapon as much as a hammer or baseball bat, for example. They can be used for different things and people understand the damage they can inflict. Walking around with either one of them in a setting which makes the object at hand seem out of place, will make people uncomfortable. So it's not about statistics and percentages of usage, but what tasks the object is capable of performing and the use of such an object in a situation that does not seem to call for it. One can easily kill someone with a carpet knife or a bayonette, despite the fact that they are made for different purposes.
 
dougo83 said:
I had a nice Kershaw folder that I picked up as a bonus gift when I used to buy a ton of Snap-On tools. One of my idiot co-workers borrowed it and I forgot to ask the all-important question "why?" He snapped the blade in half trying to pry open a drawer that had gotten stuck on our desk. :mad:
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1. How long did it take him to replace it? :grumpy:
2. Does he now know the difference between a knife and a pry bar? :eek:
 
UpChUcK said:
I went to drop off my 2 daughters at a huge birthday sleepover a couple years ago (they were 10 and 11 years old then). My wife and I are friends with the parents of the birthday girl and they live in a big house on some acreage in the country. There were must have been 40 girls there ranging from 8 to 14. Most of them we knew.

They were running around the property gathering sticks/branches for a marshmallow roasting and about 7 ran up to me sticks in hand and asked me "Can you sharpen the sticks for us?"

"Sure..." I say.

So I pull out my Endura 4 and grabbed one of the sticks. There was silence as all were staring at me wide-eyed. I stopped when I noticed this and said "What?".

Then there were 3 questions thrown out at once - "Why do you have knife?", "Are you allowed to carry that?", Why do you have that?". :eek:

So I put it away and stuck out my index finger and pretended to sharpen the stick with my finger. They looked at me and said "You can do that!" :confused:

At which point I said "Exactly!!!" and pulled out my knife again and sharpened all their sticks. They thanked my and went on their merry way. Lesson over. ;)
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This story is somewhat satisfying. To know that a child has come to understand the true meaning of using a knife gives me hope for the future. And here people thought you needed to be an eagle scout to teach someone to use a knife.
 
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