The main reason why I never go anywhere without a knife is that I am constantly
doing things that cause crap to accumulate under my fingernails. I clean my
nails at least a dozen times a day. I couldn't clean them without a pocket
knife.

And then, I often go to a Chinese restaurant where they simply do not have any
knives. They think everything they serve can be eaten with chopsticks, which I
never mastered. I gotta cut that crap us so I can chew it, and that requires me
to have a knife in my pocket. I will admit that they look at me like a bull at a
bastard calf, but I gotta do what I gotta do.

Gee! I wonder if I am gonna die from germs getting on my food from my knife? Now
that I think of it, I never got sick, even in exotic places, from using a
bayonet to eat with, and that tool visited some strange places. It got wiped off
after use, but never washed or sanitized. Back in the day we never worried about
such stuff.

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> On Oct 18, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Gary Katsanis  wrote:
> 
> Oh, it's not that I don't -own- one, it's that I don't carry one!  I live in a
fourteen room house and just took an informal census of two rooms. I found:
> 
> Scuba knife, two cold-war bayonets, a skinning knife with hook, a nice Gerber
survival knife, four leatherman-type tools (one a SOG Paratool), a couple of
cheap winchester folders, and last but far from least, a Sears 3-blade folder
and a Case single-blade lock knife, both gifts from SWMBO.  (Uh, maybe Gary has
a problem . . .)
> 
> I guess it's all too much to carry.  BTW, I've found that most old bayonets
take a ridiculous beating and still come back for more. Talk about your informal
froe!  I haven't used them for digging (much) and I've never mixed concrete with
them, but beyond that, they've done everything I've asked with a smile.
> 
> But they're not in my pocket.  Almost never.
> 
> Gary Katsanis
> Albion NY, USA
> (slightly embarrassed because I don't own a single Camillus.  not even one!)
> 
>> On 18-Oct-14 2:51 PM, scott grandstaff wrote:
>> You know: I actually don't carry a pocket knife.  Maybe I'm
>> 
>> 
>> Ahoooogah!
>> Emergency alert!! Galoot emergency alert!!
>> 
>> This is not a drill. This is not a drill!
>> 
>> Looks like the Western NY area.  Start focus men.
>> Close in from all sides.
> 
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