[Paine in the Neck]

“A knife! OMG, a knife!”

He’s from TX. Everyone in TX carries a knife.

I was in Cavenders buying a hat a couple years ago and had forgotten to put my knife in my pocket before going out. At the checkout I asked the girl if she had scissors so I could remove the tag from the hat. Instantly, there were six ‘flicks’ as the guys around me at the counter whipped their pocket knives open to hand to me.

[blackdog]

When I was in Junior High School I had a principal who would stop us boys in the hall and ask for your pocket knife? If you didn't have one you were scolded. We also had sessions teaching us how to correctly use an axe. The principal would do demonstrations on splitting wood and lighting a blue-tip match in the same swing.

Of course that was before progressives gone wild took over education for our own good.