Your WORST sheeple reaction?

65535 said:
It's funny that way when dresse dup you must have fake swords, but in your normal real life, please don't refrain from carring a real sword. I love living in CA.
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Well I would prefer that responsible citizens could get a CCW more easily...
And CA laws on "deadly weapons" .. where a sword is legal but nunchucks are not.. :grumpy:
 
Two summers ago I was in class (summer school) and I pulled my little SAK classic knockoff to cut something ( and I was being very discreet) but sure enough some moron saw it. "What the hell!? YOU CARRY A KNIFE?!?!?!" was his exact comment.

I just ignored it.
 
I have had two bad reactions:

1. Had a case of samples delivered to a buyer and we walked together out to the mail room to open them. I pulled out a Benchmade 3 1/2" Pardue folder and "flicked" it open, cut open the box and grabbed the inner package. My customer actually let out a little "girlie gasp" as I like to call it. My initial response was a quick chuckle which went over poorly. I left my knife in the car at that customer from that day forward.

2. Was at a meeting of a cribbage club I belong to and one of the older ladies had made a package of cookies and wrapped them. She could not get the ribbon open and we wanted cookies so, having learned my lesson I handed her an un-opened Benchmade 710hs. She gave it the snake eye, held it up for all to see and said "Oh my, it's the O.J. model" She wasn't joking although I thought it was pretty funny.

On the plus side over the years I have converted at least 5 friends into full time knife carriers. Most go for a small lockblade like a light buck or a traditional SAK. One carries a 4" AFCK ....
 
"That is ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!" idiot I worked with last year, he couldnt handle a balisong being used on the job site I guess. he didnt bat an eye at a switch blade one of the other workers had though.
Jeff
 
I was at a plant job in Edmonton. 2 of the boys were opening cement bags by poking holes in them with a screwdriver and tearing them open (some peoples kids, i tell ya). Seeing that they were having a bit of trouble, I offered them my Kershaw Leek. When I opened the blade, the one guy (who I later learned was a city boy from Quebec *french people*) jumped back and said "Aren't those illegal?" Needless to say, we had a talk about the difference between a switchblade and an assisted-opener.

I carry my knives as tools, the moment I were to use or display them to either do harm or intimidate, they become weapons. There is a large segment of society in North America that doesn't see the practical side of carrying a knife. Being immature or irresponsible with your EDC will only add to this group and serve to penalize all us knifenuts. Do everyone a favor and keep it in your pocket unless you have a justifiable reason to use it. Let's show the sheeple that we are law-abiding, responsible people. We might just change a few minds and make some new knifenuts at the same time.
 
NDallyn, you cut open cement bags with a leek? Yikes talk about severe dulling, thats like pure grinding. But to digress, knives are tools, and maybe when you are home you can play with them, outside they are tools, for cutting and poking.
 
Yeah-- I wouldn't open cement bags with anything more expensive than a razor knife. I haven't had too many bad reactions up here in Nor Cal. It's pretty standard that just about everyone carries. I see lots of clips in pockets on campus. If somebody acts supprised about carying a knife everyone else is "what-- you don't carry a knife?" Puts 'em right in their place.
 
NDallyn said:
who I later learned was a city boy from Quebec *french people*
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Ut oh....hold it.....hold it................ :barf: Oh well I tried........... Back to the thread, I never pull a knife out in public and rarely at work. An alternate reason beside the obvious of scaring people, is that the last time I lent a folder to a guy to cut work related materials he buggered my blade. He hands the knife to me, mumbles and diappears. Much later I open it up to see the tip point snapped off. So, another reason why you don't see me handling a knife publicly is that I don't want "Homer/Gomer/Goober" to come over and handle it.
 
I've been using the "Why don't you carry one?" response to various questions and accusations received over the years. It makes a good point and is usually effective in making them think.
 
I once had my office door closed, and had a couple small knives on my desk (the largest was an Opinel #8), with a SMKW catalog open to a two-page spread of knives. Someone in our office who is irrationally paranoid about such things (but only around me, other people having knives don't cause her any concern) barged in, saw what was on my desk, and called corporate headquarters to report that I had a row of locking knives on my desk. In her irrational fear, a picture of a row of knives was transformed into an actual row of knives.

When I asked this person why I got such a reaction when other people use large knives every day, the answer was that they use theirs as tools. As if I don't. And this person has the nerve to ask me regularly to use my knife to open boxes. I just pretend that I didn't hear the request.
 
65535 said:
NDallyn, you cut open cement bags with a leek? Yikes talk about severe dulling, thats like pure grinding. But to digress, knives are tools, and maybe when you are home you can play with them, outside they are tools, for cutting and poking.
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It's an S30V leek with black g10 scales and stainless liners. I bought it over a year ago because I specifically needed a small, one hand-opening pocketknife at work (usually when I'm hanging off a ladder) and I just hate those stupid exacto/razor blade knives (the blades always seem to head straight for my head when they break). The knife is used every day and I've only ever had to sharpen it once (best production blade I've ever owned, but of course I have a price limit). As for the cement bags, you don't cut into the product inside, just the fold on the top of the bag (open it up like a zipper - edge up). I bought it as a user, and I use it. If the blade ever gets trashed, I'll make a new one.
 
As far as scowls go, where I live sheaths on belts that say Gerber, Buck, Leatherman, Case, etc. are pretty common. I like my old BuckLite, it doesn't feel like an anchor at the end of the day.

I also hike, and switch over to a KaBar 3/4. I guess I could pull it on rabid woodchuck or whatever, but honestly my biggest animal worry is the undisciplined, protective dogs that owners love to let off-leash to run ahead of them on the trail. (No kidding, a woman got bit walking in the desert here just this month by one of two dogs that tag-teamed her, then left with their owner who did not ID himself. A series of about 20 rabies shots was a real possibility for her. He read in the paper that the police were looking for him, and came forward.)

Man, it is a unique feeling to have a big snarling dog coming right at you on a closed-in trail. Usually a walking stick will keep them at that crucial distance until the owner hurries up to say "Oh he won't bite you..." as Fido growls longingly at your juicy ankle. But knowing you have a blade on you gives you options. Obviously I'm not condoning unwarranted brandishing or killing someone's pet, but... would I pull my blade and stab at a dog attacking me?
Hell Yes- if I even remembered I had it, as my ass gets chewed... ;)
 
I was at work opening some boxes with my SAK when a lady said the famous "OHMYGOD HE'S GOT A KNIFE" It was quiet for a moment and then some one else said "why yes I believe there is a knife behind that size 14 ring"
 
The first time he saw my small sebenza, my partner was surprised - didn't realize that sometimes things need to be cut. Curiously, he was similarly surprised when I brought my DRILL to work. The reason I mention it is that sometimes you have to think about context. My partner was never in boyscouts, never in the military, and has never fixed or built anything. However, he is a very accomplished physician (I guess he might have used a scalpel in medical school). Now that I have educated him a bit, he seems to understand tools and knives a lot better. That is, I'm not sure he would ever carry a knife (or drill) himself, but he sees that they are just tools (e.g. sledge hammers can be used to kill, too). Thats fine, I probably won't ever own a sledge hammer, but they don't freak me out either. All I want is for people to learn that a reasonably sized knife is not a freakish threat to their safety (especially when in the pocket of a mild mannered country pediatrician such as myself).
 
A couple years ago at my place of work (Admin. building) AXIS-flipped my Mini Griptillian to open some memos, my boss happend to be looking and said if he ever saw me open it like that again it would be his.
 
mmmotorcycle said:
A couple years ago at my place of work (Admin. building) AXIS-flipped my Mini Griptillian to open some memos, my boss happend to be looking and said if he ever saw me open it like that again it would be his.
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Being me, I would have laughed and immediately closed and opened it again, the same way.

I can't remember having a *sheeple* moment. Maybe I just didn't notice?
 
I was once threatened with a psych-eval by my platoon sergeant for trimming my fingernails with a Camillus EDC. Very strange woman. I also had another female servicemember that worked with me ask why I carried 'that thing' in reference to a BM 710. I felt compelled to point out that she had no problem with it when she asked to use it to cut an apple, yet it wasn't OK for me to use to cut open a bag of chips. I'm not sure whether she got the point or not.
 
mmmotorcycle said:
A couple years ago at my place of work (Admin. building) AXIS-flipped my Mini Griptillian to open some memos, my boss happend to be looking and said if he ever saw me open it like that again it would be his.
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Maybe your boss was going to steal your shoes next after he took your knife.

Roadrunner said:
I was once threatened with a psych-eval by my platoon sergeant for trimming my fingernails with a Camillus EDC. Very strange woman.
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Isn't it the job of the military to "Make the grass grow" and "kill, kill, kill!" ?!? (Full Metal Jacket)
 
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