cb51
Active Member
What gives?
I admit that I'm getting to be an old fart, and in the era I grew up in, everyman who had pants on, had some kind of small penknife in a pocket someplace. Not much of a knife, maybe a little one or two blade thing with a 'large' blade of maybe two inches and a small blade of maybe an inch and something.
Just the other day I was at a kids softball game rooting on the granddaughters team. She's 8 years old and a good ball player. Well someone had to cut a string and there was a call for 'Anyone got a knife?"
Nobody there, all the parents on both teams, coaches, and league umpires had nothing. I loaned them the little Swiss Army knife I keep on my keyring and the cut was made. Some people admired the little knife that I think they have them at Walmart for all of 10 dollars.
It seems like people are more interested in the new Smart phone than carrying a small piece of useful hardware. Or is there a cutting app for the phone that I don't know about? That's possible as I'm a bit of a techno phobe and still carry my little flip phone. Yeah, I now, Stone Age.
I see people carrying pretty heavy smart phones, bottles of water as if they will drop dead from thirst if they don.t have their smart water with them. But a tiny lozenge size penknife on a keychain is not possible. Yet so often I hear; "Has anyone got a knife?"
Maybe they need to name it a 'smart knife' for it to sell?
My tiny cutter; don't weight much and goes un -noticed on keyring. Doesn't have to be big, just sharp.
I guess in these highly techno days, there is not much real need fora knife, after all in modern suburbia there's very little buffalo to skin or few hostile injuns comping over the hill to scalp us. But I'm always really surprised at how few people carry any sort of knife at all these days. If there isn't much call for a knife, then you don't need to carry much of a knife. Growing up in the 1950's, it was the June and Ward Cleaver era. Most dad's were like the Beavers dad, and I remember my dad going off to work in his suit and he always had a little two blade penknife in his pocket. Little thing, but I remember him doing all the normal cutting jobs with it. I guess these days people can't bothered.
Rant off.
I admit that I'm getting to be an old fart, and in the era I grew up in, everyman who had pants on, had some kind of small penknife in a pocket someplace. Not much of a knife, maybe a little one or two blade thing with a 'large' blade of maybe two inches and a small blade of maybe an inch and something.
Just the other day I was at a kids softball game rooting on the granddaughters team. She's 8 years old and a good ball player. Well someone had to cut a string and there was a call for 'Anyone got a knife?"
Nobody there, all the parents on both teams, coaches, and league umpires had nothing. I loaned them the little Swiss Army knife I keep on my keyring and the cut was made. Some people admired the little knife that I think they have them at Walmart for all of 10 dollars.
It seems like people are more interested in the new Smart phone than carrying a small piece of useful hardware. Or is there a cutting app for the phone that I don't know about? That's possible as I'm a bit of a techno phobe and still carry my little flip phone. Yeah, I now, Stone Age.
I see people carrying pretty heavy smart phones, bottles of water as if they will drop dead from thirst if they don.t have their smart water with them. But a tiny lozenge size penknife on a keychain is not possible. Yet so often I hear; "Has anyone got a knife?"
Maybe they need to name it a 'smart knife' for it to sell?
My tiny cutter; don't weight much and goes un -noticed on keyring. Doesn't have to be big, just sharp.
I guess in these highly techno days, there is not much real need fora knife, after all in modern suburbia there's very little buffalo to skin or few hostile injuns comping over the hill to scalp us. But I'm always really surprised at how few people carry any sort of knife at all these days. If there isn't much call for a knife, then you don't need to carry much of a knife. Growing up in the 1950's, it was the June and Ward Cleaver era. Most dad's were like the Beavers dad, and I remember my dad going off to work in his suit and he always had a little two blade penknife in his pocket. Little thing, but I remember him doing all the normal cutting jobs with it. I guess these days people can't bothered.
Rant off.