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dogtownhootie

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My brother in law was always asking me to use my knife because even though his father left him a busload of Case and Kissing Crane pocketknives he doesn't like a knife in his pocket.Last x-mas I bought him a Spyderco Dragonfly with the VG-10 blade.This knife is so light that I figured he would carry it since it clips to the pocket and you never know it is there until yuo need it.


Well the next present he opened had one of those human resistant plastic packages and he asked my sister to get him some scissors to open it:confused:

I tried.
 
I know what your saying. I gave a friend a leatherman wave and he leaves it in his tool box instead of carrying it.
 
This is one of the major reasons i dont give some of my friends knives! I just know something like this will happen......oh well, maybe one day.....
 
I know what ya mean. I have had many similar experiences.
This year I am buying quite a few different friends knives for Christmas, they seem to always be interested in what I am carrying so I figured its about time they have their own knife
Plus now if they ask to use mine I can just say "what happened to the one I gave you?" :p
 
Funny... Same thing has happened to me.
I have given a coworker two knives: a Spyderco Salt I, and an Otter Messer sailor's knife. Figured I'd covered all the bases... he kept the Spydie in his tool kit for a week or so, but I haven't seen it since. I stopped lending him mine.

Then again, he doesn't know how to be a man. 40 years old, no woman, massively in debt, consistently drops the ball when I set him up with gorgeous, intelligent women... must not have had a good father figure.
 
It sounds like your brother in law is like me, I'm sad to say. However, I usually carry a knife, but sometimes it's a bit disheartening because when I need a knife I'm usually near some: for food, normally I'm in the kitchen and use kitchen knives; at work I have a letter opener (that I sharpened beyond normalcy) and a box cutter; in the shop I have a multitude of saws and fixed blade knives... Still, I carry a pocket knife.

Not too long ago at home I needed to open a blister pack. Well, guess what. No pocket knife. I yell for one and there comes my 12 year-old daughter with a wry smirk on her lips: "So, Dad. Need a knife, heh"? She still brings that up any chance she has...
 
As unbelievable as it is to us, there are some people who simply are not knife people. Sad but true.
 
cutter17 said:
As unbelievable as it is to us, there are some people who simply are not knife people. Sad but true.
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Cutter,

While I don't argue your logic at all, I wouldn't think one had to be a knife person to see the utility of having a small functional knife on their person most of the time.

Doc
 
I gave a very nice collectable (old) knife to a friend and he destroyed it and then wanted me to fix it! Except for one friend that is a knife nut like me I only buy knives for myself. If someone wants to borrow a knife I just say "use your own", if they don't have one I say "get one cuz you won't be using mine!"
 
DocGP said:
Cutter,

While I don't argue your logic at all, I wouldn't think one had to be a knife person to see the utility of having a small functional knife on their person most of the time.

Doc
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Eh, I don't know, but you may be right about that. Guess it is hard to consider the fact that more people don't see the advantage of a knife as an edc item. I would say it is difficult for knife people to completely understand non knifers!:);)
 
i keep my good knives to myself.when someone hits on me for knife ikeep a 99 cents special from flea market which i've put on belt grind so edge is like a screwdriver. if comment is negetive from mr. borrow ,i say man you just do'nt know how to use a knife.
 
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