What's your latest "Sheeple" incident?

Great quote. After answering questions about "why I carry a knife" for the nth time at work, one of my co-workers started noticing that knives were actually useful. When he mentioned that he was looking to get a knife, I had a spare SAK classic I had received as an extra on an online purchase, so I gave it to him and told him it would tide him over until he found one that he liked. I've seen him use it a few times since then :-).
 
Planterz said:
Dude, that's brilliant. :D
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No, unfortunately it was immature and stooopid. I missed a golden opportunity to educate, or at least subtly point out the sheeple's sheeple-isms. Thanks ElectricZombie for your story... I am including your now famous line in my sig. :thumbup:
 
Being an average redneck here in Dixie most folks carry knives,but my female boss needed a serious piece of cord cut around some marketing plans so i whips out my Cold Steel voyager and removes it.Corporate puke weenie man with here simpers"you really aren't allowed to carry weapons here at work." she replies"you were on the cell kissing up to the boss,so he does what we pay him for:do the job." corporate puke weenie man looks at me like i've somehow fouled him of his masculinity,i merely smile and say"y'know they sell these suckers at our local sporting goods store,where people use guns,knives and all kinds of wholesome family friendly things,like laying the smackdown on deer,reckon you gonna get you one or six." i fet sooo good.
 
I'm pretty lucky. Working in a botanical garden people see us with bladed tools all the time so, when I whip out something like my CS large voyager, nobody blinks an eye. I guess compared to the 26 inch chainsaw they sometimes see me with the knife seems pretty tame!
 
I carry an impact warthog 3.5" blade at work and our O.B. always refers to it as "THE WEAPON".So one day I pointed out to him that it's not a weapon but a tool.He scoffed at my explanation.So I looked at his desk and told him that I saw at least 4 things that could be used as weapons.This set him back a bit.I proceded to point to his Bic pen,keaboard,phone and his overly huge tape holder/paper weight.I pointed out that all of these could have brutal martial applications if used incorrectly.He thought about it for a long while and apologized for his ignorance.
 
My own father used to always criticize me for carrying a knife 24/7, that is until I got him one of his own. Nothing too fancy, just a CRKT mini TighTac which he now carries 24/7. Now it seems like every time I pop in for the holidays or a weekend visit I have to bing my sharpening supplies. He has also told me on more than one occassion that he has found himself comparing and contrasting the little thing with coworkers EDC's after using it around the office. I guess it goes to show that it's never to late to be educated. Take care all.

-Lindey
 
I swear this is the truth: I was at an outdoor event this past weekend. A bunch of adults and some teens (a youth group) were just sorta sittin' around, whilin' away an hour or so. Now, what's an old country boy bound to do in such a setting?

Right! I picked up a stick, drew out my pocketknife, and started whittling. One of the adult males looked at me and commented (half joking, I hope!), "He's got a weapon!" The kicker is, the knife I was using was a SAK!! If there's a less threatening pocketknife around, it'd be hard to find.

I glanced at him, couldn't think of a proper response that was presentable in front of the kiddies, and just ignored him. I did wonder what he'd have said if I'd drawn the "waved" Spydie Civilian from my waistband (where it went blissfully unnoticed by all) or, maybe the S&W .38 snubbie from my other pocket (I have a CWP).

'Tis a strange land, these days . . .
 
Ray Bair said:
I did wonder what he'd have said if I'd drawn the "waved" Spydie Civilian from my waistband (where it went blissfully unnoticed by all) or, maybe the S&W .38 snubbie from my other pocket (I have a CWP).

'Tis a strange land, these days . . .
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Hard to whittle with a .38 :D
Sad part is, all the kiddies present will have misconceptions of knives reinforced by hearing that "weapon" comment from that ignorant adult. :thumbdn:

I am glad I havent had a similar experience- I would have to call him on his ignorance, kids or not.
 
I find all this very, very sad. I guess growing up in a time that ALL men and most boys had a pocket knife, it makes me sad to see how far this great country has slipped. And I grew up a city boy on the outskirts of Washington D.C.! I can't remember a time in my childhood that my dad and uncles, and even school teachers had'nt a penknife in their pants pockets, or in the case of my 5th grade teacher Mrs. Jacobs, purse. When the crank pencil sharpener on the wall broke and it was a few days till the custodian got around to fixing it, Mrs. Jacobs had a little pearl handle penknife in her purse we would use to sharpen our pencils. (Pocket knives were not suposed to be in school, so if we had one, it stayed in pockets and we just used her's) If a man had a pair of pants on, it would have been a fools bet to think he did not have even a little penknife.

I guess I'm just getting to be an old fart. But part of me still finds it hard to have any respect for a man without a pocket knife!

Sheeple- I like that term. Have to remember it.
 
I have noticed how everyone always asks "Do you have a pocket knife on you?" when they need something cut. What would they do if I didn't? This really comes as a surprise to me since I've carried some form of pocket knife since before my teens. No big deal. But asking someone if they have a knife seems to be almost a rhetorical question to me. I used to think that everyone had a pocket knife but now I'm beginning to realize that's not true. Am I way off base here or has anyone else felt this way before?

My latest incident involved my boss's secretary. I was in his office and she needed something cut so I pull out my Gerber Mini-Covert (< 3" blade) and cut it. She looked at the knife and then looked at me and said, "What do you do, stab people with that?" I looked at her and grinned and in the most sarcastic voice I could muster I said, "Yeah." Then I told her I use it to cut things too. :D
 
Until I started to read the forums about knives I didn't realize there were so many people that needed serious psychiatric care !!! I'm of the older generation and carrying a pocket knife is something that is completely normal to me and I've done it since I was at least 10 years old.
 
I'm from a little country town here in Texas, and by high school, virtually all guys carried pocket knives. And in schools in my home town, it was not against the rules to carry knives. Even to this day, one of my best friend's little brothers (also a close friend) carries his Kershaw Storm with him to class. The stipulation was the knife had to be legal and it the blade had to be shorter than the lateral span of your palm. Fantastically enough though, no one cared. My friend Mosier used to carry some 4.5 inch folder with him every day. People in that town understood knives as a tool, and best yet, you could (now this was definitely against the rules, but I digress) get in as many high school fights as you wanted without fear for your life. No one ever pulled their knives. Perhaps out of respect (this is what I think), or for those less respectful, because the other guy very well might have a knife also.
 
I have two from when I was in grad school (at my current job knives are all but mandatory- so fewer funny looks)...anyways we had ordered stuffed pizza and no one had a knife- so I whipped out the spyderco police model...no comments- just stares and blinking. So when I went to a faculty party I figured I better carry something more sheeple friendly so I grabbed a Laguiole with black and white checkered enamel handle. Anyways the head of the department was having trouble with a bag and I handed him the laguiole- to which I get a "Is this legal?"- I understand it has a whopping 3" blade and all :rolleyes: - but it is clearly not a weapon (no lock, etc.)...
 
Was taking tickets last Friday evening at our high school football game. Since it is school event, I dropped my Spyderco Standard into my pocket instead of using the pocket clip...didn't want to alarm anybody who knew what they are looking at. I also dropped my car keys into the same pocket. Sometime later, my wife who was also taking tickets with me, asked for the car keys. I do a grab for them and guess what happened next...out drops the Spyderco, clattering to the pavement in front of everybody including the on-duty police officer. :eek:

Quickly...sheepishly...I dive for the pavement and the blade. Scoop it up and get it back to my pocket with a red face. Don't know how many noticed and nobody said anything. Guess it was better than a similar move involving a pocket pistol.. :D

Lesson learned.

Jeff
 
It's terrible to see how ignorant people can be regarding knives :grumpy: . Usually if I'm in a discussion on blade use with a sheeple individual, I'll simply point out that if they've eaten that day chances are they've used a tool with an edge.

However, I'm tired of having to explain myself and being seen as some type of nefarious individual when all I do is carry some of mankind's oldest standing tools with me :mad: . I

'm sure to always take a knife and flashlight with me as my EDC but latley I've added on a SOG-mini I had kicking around, onto my keychain as my sheeple-friendly knife. That way if someone needs a blade for an incidental cutting job, they can use my SOG-mini and remain blissfully unaware about either the BM 805, Spyderco C07, or CRKT M16-04Z that are in my EDC rotation.
 
As we share more and more of these stories, my mind set towards the sheep changes regarding my knives. I've come to the point that why should we care if the sheeple are scared of our knives?

As long as you use a knife responsibly and are within the limits of the law, why should it matter if there are a few gasps here and there?

If something needs cut, cut it and put the knife away. If the guy next to you doesn't like it, so what... let him continue to chew through strings and blister packs, and in the worst case, let him use his teeth and fingernails to fashion some sort of shelter in the woods.

I'm not gonna let a few nuts who kill people with knives deter me from carrying one and I'm surely not gonna let a few sheep concern me.
 
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