@phendrick I actually ran into a reasonable and helpful TSA agent at a smaller airport once. She fetched my checked bag so that I could put the “prohibited in carry-on” item in it, and then took it back to the checked-baggage area.
I do not count on ever having that happen again.
The last time I had a pocket knife get challenged at a security checkpoint wasn’t at an airport, though. It was at the entrance to the dealer room of a convention. But not the public entrance, this was at the dealer door in the back, an hour before we were scheduled to open. A particularly officious “I will enforce the idiotic rule as idiotically written” asshat who was not even part of the convention hall’s security objected (he was dealer room staff), and was going to confiscate my knife, with no provision for it to be returned/reclaimed later. I pointed out that larger knives than the one I was carrying were available to purchase in the booth thirty feet from where we stood; no sign of intelligence was detected. I then told him that it was lucky for him that I had time to take it back to my car four blocks away, or he’d be watching me break the blade before it went in the trash, and I’d be filing a claim with the convention noting the full circumstances. Oddly enough, he was not on duty there when I returned. In fact, I didn’t see him for the rest of the weekend. (He’d been a staffer at multiple conventions in the dealer rooms, and I learned to trust nothing that he said, ever.)
@danpritts@phendrick One of the hijackings was with box cutters. Ever since, the response by officiousdom has been “Oh Noes It Sharp Thing!”, even for stuff that wasn’t. The non-tool-using presentients that make the rules seem to have overlooked the fact that since 9/11, passengers have prevented all of the hijackings because we all learned that we could only depend on the authorities to be idiots.
@phendrick@werehatrack my buck knife went into a TSA junk tray in 2008. It was simply part of my attire and always on my belt and had never been an issue. Ever. Anywhere. Including college campus. And it just didn’t occur to me in the rush to get on a flight for an interview because that’s just not something I did at the time. Still don’t. Because it just was on my belt 24/7.
They were helpful enough to inform me I could run all the way back to me car and miss my flight, or I could drop it in this mailbox to mail to myself. Which of course had no envelopes to purchase… Or they could destroy a perfectly nice knife.
A snack-knife for cutting apples, cheese, salami, or those really hard to tear plastic bags that some items come in.
Could use for boxes and packages, but if you get as many Meh and Casemates and company-A packages as I do, those would dull the blade over time more than most other uses. Honestly things using the replaceable cutter blades are far better for that. And my best place for those have been the Home Depot deals on DeWalt or Milwaukee ones, or the cheaper Coast and Husky brands which are still fine for the purpose.
opening boxes in the woods
To cut my ties with meh?
@Felton10 Not until you use up all your IRKoupons, though.
@Felton10 ???
@Felton10 @macromeh Meh isn’t sharp enough for that. Maybe it was, once…
Furnishing TSA agents with stocking stuffers?
@phendrick I actually ran into a reasonable and helpful TSA agent at a smaller airport once. She fetched my checked bag so that I could put the “prohibited in carry-on” item in it, and then took it back to the checked-baggage area.
I do not count on ever having that happen again.
The last time I had a pocket knife get challenged at a security checkpoint wasn’t at an airport, though. It was at the entrance to the dealer room of a convention. But not the public entrance, this was at the dealer door in the back, an hour before we were scheduled to open. A particularly officious “I will enforce the idiotic rule as idiotically written” asshat who was not even part of the convention hall’s security objected (he was dealer room staff), and was going to confiscate my knife, with no provision for it to be returned/reclaimed later. I pointed out that larger knives than the one I was carrying were available to purchase in the booth thirty feet from where we stood; no sign of intelligence was detected. I then told him that it was lucky for him that I had time to take it back to my car four blocks away, or he’d be watching me break the blade before it went in the trash, and I’d be filing a claim with the convention noting the full circumstances. Oddly enough, he was not on duty there when I returned. In fact, I didn’t see him for the rest of the weekend. (He’d been a staffer at multiple conventions in the dealer rooms, and I learned to trust nothing that he said, ever.)
@phendrick @werehatrack I’ve had trouble with Swiss army knives. What am I gonna do, someonea fatal manicure?
@danpritts @phendrick One of the hijackings was with box cutters. Ever since, the response by officiousdom has been “Oh Noes It Sharp Thing!”, even for stuff that wasn’t. The non-tool-using presentients that make the rules seem to have overlooked the fact that since 9/11, passengers have prevented all of the hijackings because we all learned that we could only depend on the authorities to be idiots.
@phendrick @werehatrack my buck knife went into a TSA junk tray in 2008. It was simply part of my attire and always on my belt and had never been an issue. Ever. Anywhere. Including college campus. And it just didn’t occur to me in the rush to get on a flight for an interview because that’s just not something I did at the time. Still don’t. Because it just was on my belt 24/7.
They were helpful enough to inform me I could run all the way back to me car and miss my flight, or I could drop it in this mailbox to mail to myself. Which of course had no envelopes to purchase… Or they could destroy a perfectly nice knife.
@unksol @werehatrack That’s the Gummit 4 u.
Cuttin’ stuff!
@awk BEST ANSWER.
To be able to survive the end of the civilized world. Check in next week to see how I do.
What will I do with one?
Same thing I do with every knife, Pinky. Try to take over the… No, wait, this is a knife, I’ll use it to cut stuff.
For the impending zombie apocalypse
Opening my IRK. If I ever get another one. Until then, Amazon boxes.
/giphy amazon box
EDC(Every Day Carry), although I am partial to automatic out-the-front knives. Which are legal where I live!
Goodbye
@fallooo885
/youtube bothers me announced departures
@fallooo885 @Weboh
That was fast.
@fallooo885 @Kyeh @Weboh Too bad he/she/it didn’t leave before wasting their/our time with that assine post.
A snack-knife for cutting apples, cheese, salami, or those really hard to tear plastic bags that some items come in.
Could use for boxes and packages, but if you get as many Meh and Casemates and company-A packages as I do, those would dull the blade over time more than most other uses. Honestly things using the replaceable cutter blades are far better for that. And my best place for those have been the Home Depot deals on DeWalt or Milwaukee ones, or the cheaper Coast and Husky brands which are still fine for the purpose.
To cut fruit.
Our nation is way too healthy. Nobody has mentioned that they will cut the cheese with this knife.
@yakkoTDI actually I did a few posts back. though I tried phrase it to avoid a « cutting the cheese » joke. But Oh Well, I guess it was inevitable…
@pmarin Well look at that. You did mention cheese in your TL;DR reply.
Cutting the Cheese