EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

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evilgreg said:
Incidentally, I remember fondly as a child growing up in Ontario in the '70s going to the only place you could buy beer back then, the government beer store--named cleverly "The Beer Store".

The one closest to where I lived had two registers at a counter in the middle, and on either side wall there were steel rollers along the wall with plastic flaps hanging over the opening to the refrigerated room beyond. My dad would walk up to the register and say "I'll have a two four of Golden" or whatever, and the guy working the register would say into a microphone "two four of Golden" and then dad would sort through his stack of colorful maple leaves and hand the appropriate amount to the cashier and at some point the case of beer would roll out through the plastic flaps with a whoosh and trundle down the rollers.

Socialist hellhole where you can only buy beer from the government or not, I have a lot of happy memories of the weirdly Canadian weirdness of my childhood.
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Skip ahead 50 years, same appropriate name, same steel rollers, same satisfying 'whoosh'. Happiest place on earth. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Monofletch said:
Finally got a Kwaiback! They are AMAZING! I owe it all to @strongbear0

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Congrats! I’ve had mine for over 2 years, but can’t find the occasion to carry it enough lol. Hope your’s serve you well!

Edgeoflife said:
View attachment 1227456 View attachment 1227455 Digging through the collection since I just acquired another spyderpack… This will be the last one I promise i told myself...oh yeah i said that 2 spyderpacks ago...
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I’m assuming that’s custom work on that Code 4 scale? Looks good!
 
Keyopp said:
Skip ahead 50 years, same appropriate name, same steel rollers, same satisfying 'whoosh'. Happiest place on earth. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Lol . . . that looks like a glossy, modern version of what I remember. My Ontario family are mostly cottage country and beyond, way beyond in some cases, and it's different in rural Ontario so when I'm up there now beer purchases are made at little rural convenience stores, so I don't see The Beer Store even when I'm up there (though I do end up the LCBO or whatever the booze store is called, on occasion).
 
evilgreg said:
Lol . . . that looks like a glossy, modern version of what I remember. My Ontario family are mostly cottage country and beyond, way beyond in some cases, and it's different in rural Ontario so when I'm up there now beer purchases are made at little rural convenience stores, so I don't see The Beer Store even when I'm up there (though I do end up the LCBO or whatever the booze store is called, on occasion).
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Even we polish up our old knives now and then. They’ve allowed sales in all grocery stores now, The Beer Store may be joining Blockbuster soon, I’ll miss them when they’re gone. I migrated South for work, but originally from much farther North than cottage country too. I accompanied my dad in the 70s to a store exactly like you described. Your post hit me right in the nostalgia feels... although my dad's call was for a “two-four of Fifty”.

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The back up knife today is this little guy. Too bad BM doesn’t make the Benchmite anymore. Great key ring or small fifth pocket knife. I’ve actually learned to flick it open one handed but it requires a fair amount of hand and forearm movement. The downside of the small size it I misplaced it for a couple of years lol.

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Keyopp said:
No, I moved down South now near Toronto for work a while ago. If I had my pick I’d rather be up North though.
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The operating hours for vendors in Ont are terrible. I thought it was only the places I've worked at near Manitoba, but it looks like a province wide thing.

Another night shift down the tube here, time to go to bed.
 
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