what to do when people freak out about your knife

[fightclub]And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.[/fightclub]
 
sevenedges said:
People don't like my vaquero grande. They thik it's too big
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I was cutting back thorns from a local trail through the woods with my Vaquero Grande, when a young schoolgirl came by and gave me a big smile for widening the trail. :D
 
billman, I love that quote and movie! That part is down right halarious.
esav, maybe you should have talked to her she might have been a keeper.
 
I've never had a problem . I'm carefull what I use , and where I use it . Multitools dont seem to even register on Sheeple radar . Maybe it's cause I look like a redkneck and they expect it of me !

Chris
 
cdf said:
I've never had a problem . I'm carefull what I use , and where I use it . Multitools dont seem to even register on Sheeple radar . Maybe it's cause I look like a redkneck and they expect it of me !

Chris
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I have to disagree with the statement that multitools don't seem to register on sheeple radar. I was turned to human resources department by other sheeple in the company I work for because I had a victorinox swisstool on my belt in a pouch. Almost lost my job because I was 'accused of having a weapon on company premises'. Go figure.
 
In this PC world, it makes little sense to me to let others know you're carrying a knife let alone show it. If I were you, I'd keep it to myself.
 
7k7k99 said:
I have to disagree with the statement that multitools don't seem to register on sheeple radar. I was turned to human resources department by other sheeple in the company I work for because I had a victorinox swisstool on my belt in a pouch. Almost lost my job because I was 'accused of having a weapon on company premises'. Go figure.
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Around here practicaly all maintenance types carry a multitool , or imitation thereof . I've used them while working in enviroments as diverse as Courthouses , schools , and battered womens shelters with nary a comment . In work type clothes nary a problem , in a suit they might prevoke a response due to being out of place .

In general friendly outgoing types seem to have a lot less problems , it seem to be about comfort zones .

Chris
 
I whipped out my serrated Spyderco Police Model to cut something at work many years ago and my boss said something like, "That's a nasty looking knife. What would you tell the Police if they asked you why you are carrying a knife like that?" I answered, "I'd tell them its for killing Police." He did not find my answer to be amusing and thinking back it was in very poor taste, since we are both Law and Order type guys. Sometimes the first stupid smart-a**ed answer to a dumb question is not the best.
 
cdf said:
Around here practicaly all maintenance types carry a multitool , or imitation thereof . I've used them while working in enviroments as diverse as Courthouses , schools , and battered womens shelters with nary a comment . In work type clothes nary a problem , in a suit they might prevoke a response due to being out of place .

In general friendly outgoing types seem to have a lot less problems , it seem to be about comfort zones .

Chris
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This was in a casual dress work environment [no suit]. oh well, at any rate it is good to hear that some workplaces don't get all bent out of shape about multitools.
 
It was winter and I had been skiing the day before. I usually carried a knife skiing so I could get the lift ticket off my jacket. I forgot to take the knife out of my pocket before going to school. I felt it in my pocket while at shool and took it out to see what was in there. As soon as I saw it was my knife, I jammed it back in my pocket.
The next day I was called into the headmaster's office. Another student had seen me for that split second and turned me in. The school had a 0 tolerance policy so I was suspended. The headmaster even told me that he hated to do it, but the rule was the rule.

I found out who the rat was and some time latter peppered his house with paintballs on mischief night. The best part was that as his face filled a window as he looked out to see what the noice was, I splattered the pane he was looking out. It made me feel better.
 
searcher said:
I whipped out my serrated Spyderco Police Model..."I'd tell them its for killing Police." ... in very poor taste... Sometimes the first stupid smart-a**ed answer to a dumb question is not the best.
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The Police Model is for the police to kill citizens, not vice versa! ;)
NO seriously, you're remark was funny in a way, just like E.B.'s which I criticized just now.... but you're quite right, in stupid-smartassed and more importantly completely unhelpful and counterproductive sort of way.
 
Depends who the person is and whether I know their past or not.
Once, on a college BPing trip, I whipped out my knife to cut a piece of cord or something and this girl almost had a panic attack. She said "Put that thing AWAY! Put it away or I'll kill you!!"
I politely asked her why I should put my tool away. She glared at me and said "I was threatened with a butterfly knife once." She then went into a hissy fit and told me (almost) the entire story front to back and warned me to put it away or I would wake up with it in my neck. (Needless to say, I slept with my knife in my mummy bag that night:).
I calmly finished my job, stood up and told her in a non-offensive way that she shouldn't assume that just because there are a few assholes who do stupid things like she experienced, that I or any other normal person should be afraid to use their knives as tools. I then told her that maybe if her friends are raping her at knifepoint she should go find some better friends. She basically hated me for the next few days of the trip, but I eventually got to know her better and understand why she was so hostile. We are now friends and she no longer flinches (well, not much) when I whip out my knife to trim my fingernails:)
PMZ
 
My old company would freak if you even had a knife in the vehicle in the parking lot. How they would ever know I wondered. My new company has no policy at all about knives in the employee handbook. The director asked me if I had any hobbie when he hired me. yep, I said knives! Coolw ith him!

I wore my sebenza in an on belt sheath and no drama. ok, so lets stretch it.

I wore my Strider GB in a belt sheath ! still no drama!

I didnt whip it out however. I felt leave good enough alone!

I love this place! I have a pocket knife open on my desk now.

No drama!
 
I was cutting back thorns from a local trail through the woods with my Vaquero Grande, when a young schoolgirl came by and gave me a big smile for widening the trail.
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Ooh, what did you use to dig the shallow grave? :p

I cut everything that I can with my SAK in front of others just because I don't want to bother with all of the crap.
 
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