Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for April 11, 2022

When and where I grew up, every male over the age of eight carried a pocket knife.

I always carry a pocket knife, a really handy tool.

I used to carry one routinely. Then I was forced to discard a really nice one that had been given to me by a customer because I had it with me when I went to board a plane.

If you get a Swiss army type, some of the tools included are really useful.

I will stop carrying a knife when they stop wasting plastic on consumer-proof packaging.

I always carry a pocket knife. Collecting them is also a hobby of mine.

I thought all men carried pocket knives, like it’s a guy rule.

I went to a museum and got frisked. They let me put my knife in my truck. Knife is a handy thing to have.

Only one?

Earl is whittling today over on “Pickles”.

They changed the formula on those packs of cheese & crackers, used to be you needed a knife or the little plastic stick to spread the cheese, now the cheese is gooey and you just dip the crackers into it, no more plastic sticks. It’s gross and I’ll never eat them again.

When the TSA first banned knives on planes, I had my leatherman with me. I put it into the little basket. The agent asked what it was. I opened it up and said my job involves repairing industrial instruments, then showed her the pliers and screwdrivers. I didn’t mention the knife, saw, or scissors. I got to keep it. They’re smarter now.

I carried either that one, or it’s more modern replacements, every work day until I retired. On average, I surmise I used it an average of once per week to fix something – not just opening mail or slicing fruit.

Nope the pistol is for street fighting with muggers and defending little old ladies from evildoers.

As a friend of mine once asked me suddenly: “Hey, hand me your toadsticker for a second!” Took me a second. (I had no toadsticker.)

I keep 2 knives in the pocket by my car door handle and have used them to open snack cracker packets too!!

The same Tinker Swiss Army Knife since I was fifteen. 67 now.

First, we kill all the packaging engineers. —Shakespear

A streetwise friend who grew up in DC, taught me you learn early to always carry your ‘shit’ (said he was 10 at the time and called it a “Black Thing”) It has come in handy many times over the 40 years I have found…That makes me certain OJ Simpson (who grew up in inner city San Francisco) found his ‘shit’ useful that one evening.

no.7 Opinel in my pocket at all times,from opening letters( well bills really cause who gets letters lol) to cutting wires, ropes,insulation you name it, always handy and available. at work the other day one of the guys needed cut open a box, said go ask Ozze he always has a knife in his pocket,he was not wrong. :D

and that packaging is the only thing he’s going to be able to hurt with that knife, unless he accidentally stabs himself…

I have a pocket knife, but I always forget to put it in my pocket.