Men Who Carry Knives

[dr_mabeuse]

Curious as to how many, if any, men commonly carry a pocket knife.

--Zoot

 

[oggbashan]

I used to until the furore over knife-carrying youth in the UK. It was a small pocket knife with a single sided blade about 1.5 inches long.

As a Boy Scout I wore a sheath knife, and when an Australian Boy Scout I wore a sheathed machete and sailor's clasp knife.

Now the knife is in my car's toolbox.

Og

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I always have a sharp knife on me.

I always carry a piece of wood to whittle when I'm in a bad neighborhood. I sit and whittle my stick and people leave me alone.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Used to carry one all the time, until I started flying a lot. Then due to the security checks at the airports I quit.

 

[sr71plt]

Haven't since I retired. Until then it was required by the job.

 

[3113]

Ah, yes, I've heard of the phenomenon. (Gets out anthropological notebook and starts scribbling). Knifeus-Pocketrum, males who routinely have pocket knives in, well, their pockets....

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I have a leatherman I keep with me often, though more for the wire cutter / screw driver than the knife but the knife will cut ethernet cable so it works when needed. Its been a life saver a few times both for work and just out and about.

 

[neonlyte]

Used to carry one all the time, until I started flying a lot. Then due to the security checks at the airports I quit.

Same here. Always kept a pocket knife in my traveling bag, security checks stopped that.

 

[rgraham666]

Nope.

 

[Darkniciad]

I carried a Buck 110 on my hip for years, right up until I couldn't wear it at a job when I was in Texas. Frankly, I still feel naked without it at times.

I've pretty much carried a box cutter with me since I started working in '90, though. Not as good as a knife, but handy.

I may have to dig through all those boxes from '00 and see if I can find that good old Buck knife...

 

[Belegon]

I used to carry one but now I just keep one in the center console of my truck.

I stopped it as a matter of habit when I started wearing a suit to work.

 

[TxRad]

I'm old and creature of habit so yes I still carry a pocket knife. A small lock blade Buck and yes you can shave with it. A dull knife is dangerous. It's handy for everything from fingernail cleaning and trimming to opening mail.

 

[Maeve_redux]

I'm not a man, but tend to carry one. Just a little bitty thing, but it does the job.

 

[MagicaPractica]

*ahem* Some of us girls carry knives too. Just a nice swiss army with a couple blades, a screw driver, etc.

My brother contends that you should never be without a blade and the means to make fire. You never know.

I feel a story coming on.

 

[Carnevil9]

What has it got in its pocketses, eh precious?

Nope, no knife for me. Just a cell phone.

 

[feeeriek]

*ahem* Some of us girls carry knives too. Just a nice swiss army with a couple blades, a screw driver, etc.

My brother contends that you should never be without a blade and the means to make fire. You never know.

I feel a story coming on.

feee carries a swiss army one as well...one of these days she is going to fell
that mighty oak with the saw blade *nods*

 

[MagicaPractica]

feee carries a swiss army one as well...one of these days she is going to fell
that mighty oak with the saw blade *nods*

After a big storm, my brother actually did clear a small tree from the road with nothing but his little saw blade. Course, he was just taking off some branches so he could move it.

 

[SlickTony]

It's handy for everything from fingernail cleaning and trimming to opening mail.

This. My dad carried a pocket knife all his life. I grew up thinking that All Proper Men did this.

Just as well he didn't live to see the way thing are now. There were times when he had to do a lot of air travel for his job.

 

[impressive]

Not a man, but I carry.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I carried for years. It's kind of the male version of Kleenex, I think.

 

[sethp]

I keep one in my truck, I also keep a weird brass knuckle, throwing knife double bladed thing that would actually cut my hands more than anything I was using it on and a taser without batteries and a pack of 5 balanced throwing knives. lol

 

[FatDino]

I also carry one. Knife/lighter disguised as a pocket-sized gun.

And I'm not a man.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Over the years I've argued with supervisors about knives. They call knives weapons; I call knives tools. But in almost every workplace, sooner or later, the supervisor needs to use my knife to open a box or cut something.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SR71PLT

Yep. When you leave the guvmint they take your gun and knife and balls, and trade them for Canadian citizenship certificates.

 

[redpaint]

Seem like I have carried one forever. I grew up on a fram and seems like every job I have ever had I have needed it at somepoint in the day. Its been a handy little tool on countless jobs. I don't know if I could walk right if I didn't have it on me.