Do you run around 'half naked' ?

[ironglowz]

   
     What ever happened?  It seems at least 4-5 times a week I am asked, "hey Gramps, loan me your pocket knife" ?  Why doesn't every man carry a pocket knife?  It seems that any man caught without a pocket knife in the 1950s or 1960s, may as well have been partially naked! ...And some women carried purse knives too! Why not today? Do you still carry one, or do you run around "half nekkid"?

[Bob Riebe]

      I carry one 98.6 percent of the time, but I lose them too often when I am doing garden or yard work.

[gypsyman]

  Can't think of when I don't have one in my pocket. Maybe when I'm lounging around the house with my lazy shorts on.

[victorcharlie]

I carry one just about all the time, and have all my life.  We traded them in highschool and junior high home room.  To answer the question, schools have banned them as "bad" "evil" weapons that kill people.   

I wasn't allowed entry into the local court house because I had a small pen knife.  Seems these days, little makes and sense.

[moamonkey]

There?s one in my pocket almost 100% of the time. I have a drawer full, some I bought 40 years ago. It?s a natural part of my attire.

[Mule 11]

I carry one just about all the time, and have all my life.  We traded them in highschool and junior high home room.  To answer the question, schools have banned them as "bad" "evil" weapons that kill people.   

I wasn't allowed entry into the local court house because I had a small pen knife.  Seems these days, little makes and sense.

Don?t worry, they have DEI hires there to protect you. When you need help, cops are generally only 5 minutes away.

[moamonkey]

My wife was in the hospital earlier this year. They wouldn?t let me in because I had a small muti-tool on me. Absolutely stupid. There were a hundred tools in that place I could have grabbed if I?d wanted to do real damage.

[Bob Riebe]

My wife was in the hospital earlier this year. They wouldn?t let me in because I had a small muti-tool on me. Absolutely stupid. There were a hundred tools in that place I could have grabbed if I?d wanted to do real damage.

     Up here, if  you are going to the Trauma Center, a place where you sit for one half hour till they get to you, real often, you have to empty your pockets.
     BUTT
     If you have an appointment, you can just walk right in to the waiting room, no pocket checking.

[gene_225]

Mostly not. Except when going to the Hospital to visit or for an appointment. But the first time I ran into that was a couple of yeas ago when I was having a stroke. Went thru the metal detector to the ER and had to empty my pockets. Had several knives in my pockets. In my confused state, I managed to knock the bowl on the floor and knives went flying everywhere. Fortunately my daughter was there, having driven me in, and picked them all up and took them out to her car. But the cops were all standing up with their hands on their pistols. I thought I was going to get shot; knew I was in trouble.
Spent three days getting treated for the stroke before they sent me home.

[scattershot]

I have carried a pocket knife since I was six. That?s a long time, believe me. Generally, if I have a pocket, there?s a knife in it. I don?t understand, either.

[ironglowz]

I carry one just about all the time, and have all my life.  We traded them in highschool and junior high home room.  To answer the question, schools have banned them as "bad" "evil" weapons that kill people.   

I wasn't allowed entry into the local court house because I had a small pen knife.  Seems these days, little makes and sense.

  Yes, trading pocket knives etc., seems like it was a regular event during my school years.  Must have started such swapping in about 5th or 6th grade. Mostof the time I upgraded by trading, but some times I was "taken to the cleaners", by a knife that wouldn't hold an edge.

[Drilling Man]

             Do you run around 'half naked' ?


  For a minute, I thought you was one of those funny dudes, and you was going to ask us for pictures!!

  DM

[Bob Riebe]

           I said earlier I lost a LOT of knives, and they were the ones I usually had spent good
 money for.  -  well I always forget, between my Dad and Grandfathers, I have a fairly good number of
 knives I could just sharpen up and be just as usable, for free, as the one I bought and lost.

           The ignorance of youth - even as I became an old fart.