Whipping out the KaBar at work......

I had a guy ask me what I need a "combat dagger" for in public, when I offered him my BK14 to cut open some boxes.
 
The Logical One said:
That is J crew you're talking about, I worked there as a seasonal during X-mas and I can tell you that half the dudes that worked there wore clothes from the girl section. The other half that were straight were a bunch of organic carrot eating yogaing hipsters.
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LOL. Looking back at it, I should have expected it even with that small blade.
 
.......i love yoga.

I carry a folding boxcutter at work and with it's whopping 2cm blade people don't freak out. It's nice too, with it's interchangeable blades, I can chuck em out once they get too coated with tape gunk.
 
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I use my old Uncle Henry Mini Trapper or Case Sodbuster Jr for cutting things in these situations. Whatever else im carrying stays hidden away so the sheep dont get scared.
 
Up here it is still commonplace for people to be carrying Buck 110 s on there belt and not uncommon to see a 10 inch fixed blade on someone's belt. I carry pretty much whatever I want to and nobody says a word. I've used a Spyderco Military to open stuff at the local lumberyard without a comment.
 
I haven't had someone hound me on knives in a while, now. Last time it was about a Kershaw Zing though.. was in the grocery store and the dudes boxcutter.. wasn't exactly cutting the box. So I helped him. He freaked out quite a bit.
 
I've gotten a few frightened reactions myself (even in Texas), but I don't mind. I don't let other people's hangups dictate what I carry or use. The way I see it, if someone sees me using my Military or 110 or Junkyard Dog II, to do something productive and safe, it can only lessen their fear at the sight of a sharp object. So in a way, using 'scary' knives in public is a public service. That's what I'm going with.
 
I say you go the complete opposite way with it,start with the trail mix then start slicing random objects within reach to show how sharp your blade is (impressing the females)then challenge every man in the room to a fight.If you can..start spraying urine around the room like a male lion in heat,wait what was this about,
I gotta get some sleep before tonight.Happy 4th everyone.
 
I've said it before ... say it again ... I love the looks I get when I pull out my Kershaw Cyclone and use the assisted opening. It's a big folder and opens fast with a loud KLACK! The "sheeple" literally back up from me (LOL) I know it's a little twisted but ... :D
 
I must just be lucky at work, I carried a rajah II at work for about a month and people loved it, especially when you throw water bottles in the air and chop them in half :)
 
Maybe its an Oklahoma thing but the ladies in the office always ask one of the guys if we have a knife. When you ask why do they think we have a knife they will answer "My husband or son or father always carry a pocket knife so I thought all guys did". After asking I will hand over my knife. Occasionally you get the answer "You look like a guy that carries a knife". Then I make them work for it and explain. ha ha ha I like to make them work for it.

I have a number of little cheap pocket knives. As I have said before, I consider pocket knives to be a throw away item. So I have never paid more than $10 - $15 on a pocket knife. One of my favorites is a $1 knife from Wal-Mart. I use this as my gateway knife. People ask to borrow one and mention they should start carrying a pocket knife or keep one in their purse and I tell them to keep that one. Its my little way of spreading awareness. Plus if someone gives you a knife, it seems to remove some of the "scary" stigma.

I do have a Stubby that I love. I have actually used it to remove stitches from someone's hand at work before. She didn't want to go back to the doc just to have them cut them out so I did it for her. Below is my Stubby. The blade is so thin, it will hold a near razor edge. No one has ever been afraid of this little cutie.

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i never hand a knife to someone that just asks for it. especially if i don't know them. i inquire what the task is, if i don't know. i let them know, directly they break it, they bought it. yah? yah.

naturally, i have more than one knife. some knives are better tasked than others.

if i don't know the idjit, they don't get nothing, they get the cheap/easy knife, or *I* do the cutting. sorry, just cuz they want my good tools, doesn't mean they know how to use them, which means they don't get them most of the time.

i have to assume they are idiots, or at best without experience, and i don't want them getting hurt :) the ones who are willing to listen, and learn, ... sometimes.

it's for their own good. also, i would be sad if they *bleeped* up something i value more than they. if they did value such, they'd already own one.
 
Bladite said:
i never hand a knife to someone that just asks for it. especially if i don't know them. i inquire what the task is, if i don't know. i let them know, directly they break it, they bought it. yah? yah.

naturally, i have more than one knife. some knives are better tasked than others.

if i don't know the idjit, they don't get nothing, they get the cheap/easy knife, or *I* do the cutting. sorry, just cuz they want my good tools, doesn't mean they know how to use them, which means they don't get them most of the time.

i have to assume they are idiots, or at best without experience, and i don't want them getting hurt :) the ones who are willing to listen, and learn, ... sometimes.

it's for their own good. also, i would be sad if they *bleeped* up something i value more than they. if they did value such, they'd already own one.
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Hence, the $1 WallyWorld knife. (If they were to break it, I tell them it was worth $5-$10. Sadly no one has broken one)
 
No one touches ANY of my knives period with out very negative repricusions

But all in all I like scaring sheeple- the other day I was at a 4th of July type festival and I was eating my horrible excuse for a dinner, I used my wonderus fully serrated endura to open packages of food and ended with sticking it in the table between openings and note- a very long kind for some booth went right in front of me :D

Or just a while back camping( with a bunch of $&@@$! Morons- only 2 knives between about 15) I used my cs Spartan to open a pack of marshmallows and scared everybody cause I was in a hurry
 
I have never gotten those looks when I'm using a smallish folder for something reasonable. If your the kind of person who goes into a restaurant and cuts your food with a folder or uses a knife to open those easy tear food wrappers your going to get looks. Not so much because their afraid of the knife as the are of the guy who feels the need to behave in such an odd manor.

The same thing goes for opening the knife in someones 'personal space' that should just be common courtesy. If a stranger out of the blue steps toward me and flicks open a knife, you had better believe I'm going to expect a fight first and assume they are friendly second.

I suspect the people who have a lot of these experiences are doing something different then I am. Be smart.
 
Mat I think you're right on about knife knuts who are showier than they need to be, but I think you're lucky that you haven't run into someone who is unreasonably afraid when a pocketknife is used in a perfectly reasonable way. They are absolutely out there.
 
I carry only fixed blades (given the lack of archaic knife regulation in New Hampshire, I'm free to do as is completely reasonable with my blades) and a Victorinox Mechanic. The reactions I get when I open boxes, packages, etc. in public can be very amusing, especially when I'm on auto pilot and I grab my go-to blade (ESEE 6) out of my bag to do whatever cutting task is being asked of me.
A few weeks ago, while on a late-night grocery run, I did this in front of a terrified teen who was stocking the shelves. The box cutter wasn't doing it, so I grabbed the knife out of my bag and offered my help. He dropped the package and jumped backwards, pasty white. I picked the box up, cut the tape, then realized what I'd done. When the blade went away he stocked the shelf as fast as possible and walked away an unnecessary pace. I hollered apologies down the aisle and he stopped, turned and muttered something about how it didn't bother him, then promptly ran away.
 
mat_890 said:
I have never gotten those looks when I'm using a smallish folder for something reasonable. If your the kind of person who goes into a restaurant and cuts your food with a folder or uses a knife to open those easy tear food wrappers your going to get looks. Not so much because their afraid of the knife as the are of the guy who feels the need to behave in such an odd manor.

The same thing goes for opening the knife in someones 'personal space' that should just be common courtesy. If a stranger out of the blue steps toward me and flicks open a knife, you had better believe I'm going to expect a fight first and assume they are friendly second.

I suspect the people who have a lot of these experiences are doing something different then I am. Be smart.
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