What's your latest "Sheeple" incident?

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I had an incident at my work this past week that disgusted me... I had one of my employees ask me "What's with the weapon?" in reference to the Bob Dozier straight personal that I had in it's horizontal sheath on my belt. Yep, all 2&7/8" of D2 @ approx 60 rockwell intimidation and savagery waiting on my belt to slay Godzilla. :rolleyes: Unfortunately, they did this at first thing in the morning when I am usually quite grumpy and all I could manage was evident disgust and calling them "sheeple" and baa-ing at them instead of a calm informed reply about the necessity of a sharp tool to carry daily. I sure wish I could do that one over. Heck, I've carried scarier folders on my person at work... they'd probably crap their pants if they saw my CUDA Maxx 5.5 or a Spydie Chinook II. :eek: Yet all they see is a clip. :rolleyes: I carried my Dozier SP all week anyways "in defiance"... after all, I am the boss and I can do what ever I feel like.
So, what has your most recent "sheeple" event been? How did you react? (Hopefully better and more informative than me... :rolleyes: ) Has it changed what you carry or what you show to the public?
 
I still carry some pretty mean knives. :) But the prospect of having to discuss my knives with people who are disinclined to appreciate them does keep them out of sight, unless I really feel I need to use them.

We put up sheeple threads all the time. How about a few stories about non-knife people who don't panic at the sight of a blade, or complimented one of us on the knife we were using?

I was the boss on my last post office assignment, and anyone was authorized to carry and use an appropriate knife for the cutting we needed to do -- boxes, plastic bands, plastic sheets. I usually had a better grade of knife than the others, and a lot of the guys liked to play with them. And I could trust them to handle them right, too.

My sister's husband is a hunter, and admitted he and his dad had no love of knives, for all the firearms he owns. They wouldn't take care of them, either. I should have given him a Mora for his turkey hunting. I gave him a Gerber EZ-Out, and he was amazed at how well it cut ... :p
 
I've never had any sheeple incidents. I've never had anyone comment on any of my knives. Only thing I'm worried about is what a cop would say and if he would take any of my knives. I'm pretty sure they are all legal but oklahoma law is written in legalise and it's so broad they could interpert a SAK as a dangerous weapon. I just hope if I treat them with respect they'll do the same for me.

I know people that open carry their hand guns. I wonder what the sheeple would think of that. Some states require no permit if you carry it openly and as long as you stay away from bars and schools.

Keep it sharp,

skcusloa
 
My latest was last evening at the Quick Stop station behind my house when a guy I know that works there asked me if he could borrow my knife to cut open a box real quick since they are technically not allowed to carry even a box opener there when on duty. He knows me and knew when he saw me that I had one on me.

I had my 2000 Emerson CQC7A I just bought on me and I had just Waved it the other day since it was an unwaved knife from the factory. The Wave caused such a stir that I had to show the other people there how it worked four times before I left. A couple of the guys there said out loud, "is that a switch blade? Did you see that?" and then said, "do that again". They each wanted to see it and then told someone else who wanted to see it who then told someone else. It was kind of funny actually. I am glad there weren't more people in there or I'd have worn a hole in my pocket showing everyone how it worked. I was having trouble even filling up my tea there for a spell because once I got the knife back everytime I stuck it back on my pocket someone else wanted to see it work.

I should get a commission for handing out the Emerson video link for the Wave demo I think. :p I left wondering if any Emerson Waved knives sold last night thanks to me. It was one of the good sheeple experiences.
 
Well I have a 2 storys one of each. The first was when I bought my tv at Sams Warehouse and in order to fit it my car I had to open and cut up the box I pulled my spyderco police and started cutting the box the guy that was helping me load it almost crapped his pants. I guess seeing someone pull out a fully serrated police was too much for him cause he asked me if I need more help and before I got done saying no he was gone. The theres my pastor that knows I'm carrying a swisstool and some other folder 24/7 so when I help him unload supplies he asks to borrow my knife to open whatever needs opening. Anytime someone needs a knife he points them in my direction thats why I started carrying a superknife in addition to the other knives.
 
I'm really fortunate. I never have any sheeple problems (hope I don't jinx myself). All my friends love to see my knife collection and they make knife reference jokes about me. I'm really lucky like that.
 
I have the tiny Dragonfly in my key ring for daily cutting, it's not scary or anything but I nevertheless prefer not to flash it. One learns to keep one's goodies hidden with all the sheeple around. My "other" knife is usually a meaner looking one, large folder like the Police or a boot knife style sticker like the Guardian. Low profile is the key, nobody ever sees my knives.

The last two times I used my Leatherman to tighten some screws in a bookshelf and to fix a broken drawer at work (desk job) I got the same reaction: "You know, you're not supposed to carry bladed weapons." Yeah, that's right. Just let everything fall apart and file a report, and someone from Maintenance will fix it first thing next month...

I'm tempted to bring a machete to work to open mail with.
 
I'm a student who works as a manager at a movie theatre (primarily in projection) and the company I work for actually issues projectionists these knock-off multitools that vaguely resemble Leathermans. Due to their overwhelming lack of quality, none of us carry them on us and the smarter ones of us carry our own pocket knife. So here's my two stories.

The first one was I was helping a projectionist fix something that required laying on the ground. Since I had to lay down I emptied my pockets as it was rather uncomfortable laying on my car keys and such. Now, I really wouldn't go through someone else's personal belongings if they were laid out on the floor, but all of a sudden I hear this yelp and my Kershaw Leek 1660ST bouncing across the carpet. Apparently she'd picked up my knife and tried to open it, not realizing it was spring-assisted and it spooked her into dropping it. I checked out the knife and it was fine of course but then she asks, "What do you stab people with that thing? Are you in a gang or something?" Yeah, I'm one of those middle-class college-kid-with-a-job type of gang bangers. :rolleyes:

The second time happened a couple days ago (also at work) when one of the popcorn poppers who work in concessions asked to borrow my pocket knife to cut some vinyl tubing. I let him use it and sure enough, an hour later all the little high schoolers are asking me why I'm carrying a switchblade or better yet, why I'm carrying a katana. Yeah, I dunno how a three inch folding pocket knife could be mistaken as a 42 inch-long japanese sword but . . . well maybe all that artificial flavoring in the butter's finally getting to them.
 
OK, Esav, here I go. I was in northern Ohio about 3 years ago picking up a load of muffler tubing. The day had been REALLY bad for everybody. ( I had a 12 noon P/U and this was 9 pm)
After I was loaded ,I spread plastic over the load. Rather than climb off the load to cut the stuff, I asked the supervisor standing there if he could cut it for me. I gave him my Sebenza(lrg plain) . After cutting the plastic, he checked out the knife , opened it a couple of times and after saying how smooth it was I got to explain the workings of a Sebenza.
In my job knives are so common, it is rare when someone askes about it. So it was a pleasure.
 
I had a good experience Wednesday. The local paper is delivered on Wednesdays and they're tied with string. Just after the deliveryman left, an older lady (I'd guess early 60s) wanted a paper.

I whipped out my Endura and cut the string. She looked at my knife and then said "that's a nice knife," and mentioned how handy it must be to have it.

Most people are just scared off by how ugly the Endura is.
 
I have found that older folks seem to be more comfortable when a knife is being used responsibly. Possibly because they grew up in a time when men and boys generally carried some kind of pocket knife. I myself am 45 and don't have a problem if a young kid is using one responsibly. In fact, I like to see it.

Now for my couple of recent events which were actually pleasent surprises.

Where I volunteer working with at risk middle schoolers the policy is no weapons, knives included. At that time I was informed that this applied to the kids not the adults and that I would be allowed to keep my pocket knives. It probably didn't hurt that while we were preparing everything for the summer I fixed one of the pool tables, the air hockey table, foose ball table, a coffee table, and sharpened their very dull kitchen knives.

While some of the kids were using the air hockey table one of the pucks got jammed and they couldn't get it out. Ok, out with the Victorinox Tinker (that days EDC) to un-jam the puck. A couple of the boys looked at it somewhat oddly but didn't really seem to care one way or the other, probably since I got them their puck back and it went promptly back into my pocket . But it was nice that it was no big deal and we didn't get any calls from irrate parents.

Would this all have been different had I used one of my more "threatening" looking knives ...... possibly. None the less it was refreshing that I with my knives have been accepted with no problems in this sometimes irrational "PC", fear everything era.
 
I was purchasing an item at a store that had a string with a price tag affixed to it. The clerk needed to remove the tag, and proceded to attempt to tear the string off. Her method wasn't working, so I quickly opend my Starmate and cut the tag off. The clerk looked at me like I was crazy, and asked "What do you have that for?". I looked at her and said "Savages tear. Civilized people develop and use tools.". She rolled her eyes and looked like she wanted to kill me. My buddy was there with me and almost died laughing. I thought it was the perfect response. Had they made a big deal about it, I wouldn't have purchased anything from them.
 
ElectricZombie said:
I looked at her and said "Savages tear. Civilized people develop and use tools.".
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Oh man, that's funny! Can I use it? Pretty please?
 
ElectricZombie said:
"Savages tear. Civilized people develop and use tools."
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I'll have to remember that one. Put that on a t-shirt with a pic of a favorite knife and you could sell a million of them.

My (good) sheeple story involves a guy in a place I once worked. He liked guns and hunting but never had a fondness for knives, a surprise to me back then. He knew I liked knives and sometimes stared with that deer in the headlights look (probably thinking I was a future serial killer) whenever I brought out a SAK or Endura.

One day, he told me that he bought a pocket knife (a slip joint) since he had seen how useful mine had been. A couple of weeks later, he told me that his knife came in handy numerous times and how much he enjoyed it. He said it was great to have and "It's a. . . tool." I said, "And that's all it is." He looked at me for a couple of seconds, nodded and said yeah. Wish more sheeple could develope like he did.
 
Hateman said:
I'll have to remember that one. Put that on a t-shirt with a pic of a favorite knife and you could sell a million of them.
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Not a bad idea! LOL
 
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