Don’t tell Lyn Costello about this thing called “whittling” that rural youth have been doing for centuries. She might not survive that stroke.
Yes, all those whittlers are just gangsters in training, right?
Too many urbanites are afraid of knives anymore. Once at the store I worked at the box cutters went missing. I whipped out my pocket knife, sliced the box open, and tried to hand the knife handle-first to my coworker so she could do the same with her box. The blood drained out of her face, she started backing away, within minutes everyone except the supervisor was treating me like I had a bomb strapped to my chest, they started asking who I was there to kill. And they were serious!
The supervisor just kind of shrugged and said “So what?”