Why intentionally damage a knife???

The True North said:
Some people just weren't raised to respect tools. Some folks are low information type of people and just don't know any better.

Lots of people see knives as disposable or no more worthy of care than a hammer or wrench.

I am firm in my belief that the way one treats a cutting implement - whether that be a kitchen knife, pocket knife, scissors, chisel, anything - is a direct measure of their intelligence. This has been a universal truth in my life experience.
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Certainly explains why there's so many idjjuts out there....😉
 
Maximumbob54 said:
This is the kind of nonsense I'm talking about. I don't get it. If it was a replaceable blade box cutter that's one thing. But to borrow someone else's knife and proceed to destroy it. I just don't get what the casual attitude is with destroying someone's property.

I used to tell people if they borrowed something then just treat it like it was their own thinking they would know to take care of it. NO. BIG NO.
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Maybe some people are so conditioned to using cheap, gas-station quality knives and/or box cutters, never spending more than $20 on any one of them. They view knives as merely consumable items because that is their experience and aren't able to recognize a good quality knife worth preserving. The new wave of Havalon knives and their ilk who provide folding pocketknives and hunting knives with disposable blade inserts (just like a boxcutter) can only be making this issue worse. Brilliant from a marketing perspective, but disastrous for teaching new generations how to properly handle and maintain a cutting tool.

It may be worth noting that this is not a new phenomenon. The number of old WWII and Vietnam vintage Ka Bars with broken and re-ground tips, bent tangs, and mangled guards tells me that people have always been terribly misusing knives (although I suppose the fellas back then deserve a little grace for using what was available to them under circumstances I cannot fathom).
 
catspa said:
Trying to imagine how slashing and stabbing plastic water bottles would damage a knife.

Make a big mess, yep. Make a wound if you slipped and stuck it in a body part, yep. Damage the knife, how would that happen?

A verbal assault/lashing from me would probably consist of “Well, that was kinda dumbass” in a calm voice, and then we start addressing the damage. To each their own, I guess.

Parker
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It didn't damage it, but they aren't exactly known to be built for stabbing water bottle lids. I have little patience for pointlessly damaging anything, especially when it belongs to someone else.

If I drink and drive but nobody gets hurt. Did I make a good decision?

I'll stick to the high road for most trespasses. That doesn't happen to be one of them. To each their own indeed.
 
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I just traded in a phone and the guy exclaimed that we kept like new. Well, of course I did. They are expensive and can be critical in some circumstances, why wouldn't I take care of it? Use your stuff, but don't needlessly destroy it. That goes double when borrowing someone else's stuff. How is this not obvious to everyone?
 
The more I think about this the more I'm giving myself indigestion. I just walked to the parking lot and back a little bit ago. There's a brand new looking four door Wrangler out there. Doors removed roof off. This is a new Jeep, not an old CJ. How long are all the electronics in the dash going to last exposed to the elements? The seats are cloth so they have got to be getting disgusting. Not my property so not my business but still...
 
Blues said:
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be." - Polonius (from "Hamlet")

The bard knew a thing or two.
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I struggle with this because I was raised to always do your best to be both capable and useful. Not that I disagree, I just try to balance everything.
 
Maximumbob54 said:
I struggle with this because I was raised to always do your best to be both capable and useful. Not that I disagree, I just try to balance everything.
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When I was a kid, my mother used that line a lot. I've since learned why.

I like to be helpful as well, but folks need to earn respect to keep respect. They get one chance to prove themselves...one way or the other.

In any case, it's sound advice regardless...for the most part. I've seen way too many folks feel entitled to hold on to what they've borrowed, and get an attitude when reminded it's time to return or pay back. That's the saddest part of all.
 
My concept of loaning whatever, is whoever I loan the item too, has to have the resources to replace it if lost or damaged. Most everybody i know can and would replace let's say a $100 knife, where the cutoff is for example a camera and lens worth thousands, I just say no because the people that ask usually are not in the position to be able to replace it.
 
Maximumbob54 said:
The more I think about this the more I'm giving myself indigestion. I just walked to the parking lot and back a little bit ago. There's a brand new looking four door Wrangler out there. Doors removed roof off. This is a new Jeep, not an old CJ. How long are all the electronics in the dash going to last exposed to the elements? The seats are cloth so they have got to be getting disgusting. Not my property so not my business but still...
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My carpeting lasted longer than my rear differential.... Id take my roof off for a couple weeks each year....go figure?

I had a bimimini? Idk how to spell it.
Unfortunately stuff isn't as durable as we all would like
 
I just cut whatever it is for them. I have winced at peoples treatment of their own knives. Ultimately it is just a tool but it is a slicing tool which far too many people don’t understand.
 
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Due to this conversation, and it being true of my own life experiences loaning tools. I pretty much don't pull my nice knife out of my pocket to let someone use ever. If your lucky I'll hand you my leathermans knife. My wife's the only exception, she knows how much the knives cost.
 
The True North said:
Some people just weren't raised to respect tools. Some folks are low information type of people and just don't know any better.

Lots of people see knives as disposable or no more worthy of care than a hammer or wrench.

I am firm in my belief that the way one treats a cutting implement - whether that be a kitchen knife, pocket knife, scissors, chisel, anything - is a direct measure of their intelligence. This has been a universal truth in my life experience.
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Alberta Ed said:
I just figure that people who ask to borrow a knife or other tools are too dumb to use mine.
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The theme here is there are some very simple minded folks, and also those who have poor manners (IE: Shopping cart phenomenon).

I remember handing a Zippo to a guy who needed a lighter, who returned it to me a minute later with the lid torn off.

Saw a guy struggle removing a twist-tie off a thin plastic bag of ice. Took him two minutes.

Watched a woman use a thin and fine tip knife to try and wedge open a coconut. It bent and snapped.

Witnessed a man try to cut a hole with a hole-saw in a drill. The wood spun and smacked him in the nuts. He tried it again...same result.

They walk among us, and even more scary...drive.
 
elevator man said:
Due to this conversation, and it being true of my own life experiences loaning tools. I pretty much don't pull my nice knife out of my pocket to let someone use ever. If your lucky I'll hand you my leathermans knife. My wife's the only exception, she knows how much the knives cost.
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My wife cuts on granite countertops with kitchen knives. She is banned also 🤣

She has her own kitchen knives now that the kids use as well. I have a santoku and a petty that are for me. Hers are generic and go through dishwasher -I sharpen occasionally on my 1x30 harbor freight.
 
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