Utterly mundane question about knife use in a shop

As stated above, if there’s no legal repercussions, show off that big boy espada. I always enjoy cutting stuff with semi intimidating (to non knife people) knives in the presence of other said nonknife people. I used my full sized crooked river recently at work to slay a box and my co worker looked at me like I beheaded a sheep in front of him with a machete
 
shane45-1911 said:
I don't patronize establishments where I need to ask permission to use a tool that has been in existence since the dawn of man.

I'm not disagreeing with you personally, I just hate how overly-sensitive and overly-reactive society in general has become.

#toomanykarens
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I agree with you. And the more I think about it, I probably would have just pulled out my knife du jour and used it. I’m not suggesting you have to ask, but it was nice of the OP to be that considerate. Me, I’m not usually that nice. :p
 
Jesse B. said:
(mini Griptilian)
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Unless you act stupid aggressive , any small to medium knife shouldn't be a problem in OP situation .

Polite to ask first to give a little warning . If they said no , then they could open it .

Stores have to stock their shelves . Somebody has got to be cutting open the shipping case boxes . Lots of them .

I always carry a small keychain knife . Not very intimidating, except maybe to the extreme crazy sensitive types .

I'm NOT gonna wave out my XL Espada with a berserk war cry . Scaring humans is stupid rude and can be very dangerous . :eek:
 
Do you mind if I use my knife to open the box....?

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🤦‍♂️ I can’t believe this needs to be asked, no offense to the OP, you were being considerate which is a great thing.

We really really shouldn’t have to ask ourselves if we can use a knife in a fundamental way for a purpose it was designed to do.

I personally wouldn’t have thought twice about it, it would be a natural reaction to use the tool I carry everyday for the use I carry it for. If some store employee said anything or looked at me like a loon, I would have given them the same look right back.
No one will make me change my behavior due to their perception.
On that note, I act like a reasonable and responsible adult, my conscience is my guide.

OP, you’re out of the cesspool now, you don’t have to overthink basic life functions any longer. Enjoy the freedom, you might just find there are many people like us in the wild that are too scared to compliment you on your knife, just as you were afraid that using it would excite those of diminished intestinal fortitude.

Even if using your knife instead of your bicuspids had triggered a 😱 from a patron who chooses the pronoun “they”, why should you give a farthing? We are expected to accept all the individualistic expressions these days, that’s not a one way street, they should suck it up buttercup and get back to twitterbating or instagroping.
 
I gave a Dragonfly to a woman who admired it. Later she told me that two men, less than half her age, were alarmed when she took it from her purse to open a coffee package and she's a 100-pound grandma who uses a walker. Then there was the woman who thought that the P-38 can opener on my keychain was a weapon. Some people would choke on their own spittle at the sight of a sharp pencil.
 
ac3boyz said:
"snippy"
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Having worked such jobs myself , I try to not blame the lowly employees .

Those who made the stupid policies are usually hiding out in their offices , somewhere else, protected from the public . 😒
 
Most of the time when I'm in a public situation like at a store I'll just preface it by saying, "ok I'm going to use my pocket knife to open this" and there is never trouble. Sometimes I'll see an employee struggling and ask, would you like some help I have a pocket knife. I always say the "pocket" part as in my experience it is somewhat disarming compared to "I gotta knife."
 
I wouldn't think twice tbh. I see it as a tool and nothing more (being a small pocket knife).
If it was that monster Shane45 posted I might rethink my actions.
 
The region is a lot less important than what is immediately local. For example, I live in a modestly sized (but wishing to be metropolitan) city. Where I work is light industrial, but it's between a park and a couple of schools. If I'm in my work stuff and I hit the grocery store at the end of the street on my way home, I'm wearing my leatherman on my belt, and I promise that all the tradesmen who have warehouses on the street all have boxcutters in their pockets. Are those "strictly legal"? "Lawful excuse" gets stretched maybe. But no one cares. If I wore that same belt rig while in my civvies in the city core, probably a different bunch of questions, even though the legality is the same, I'd get along farther with a SAK. If I'm out of town, again, different story, even though the immediate area near me would be "hippy central" and one might think "weapons" would be frowned upon, tools are totally fine. Get even farther out of town and again, no one is caring about weapons (unless you have downed too many in the pub) but you might get a critique of not carrying something useful or thinking you could take on a croc with your belt-sword, but again, no one really "cares" unless they are wearing blue and it's their job to make you miserable. For what it's worth that also applied to me when I lived/worked in Calgary.
 
DocJD said:
Having worked such jobs myself , I try to not blame the lowly employees .

Those who made the stupid policies are usually hiding out in their offices , somewhere else, protected from the public . 😒
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You may be correct. I also have worked those jobs, from fast food to night shifts at gas station/convenience markets. It may or may not even be a policy. My point is the general lack of customer service these days. I also detest having to use the self checkout lines.
 
Honestly, I'd hesitate to whip out a pocket knife inside a "dollar store". Sad to say, but like "Waffle House" employees, the people there have seen some shit. One one hand, a well-behaved, clean individual that doesn't look like a tweaker shouldn't raise any alarms if they pull out a pocket knife (tool) to open a box that they asked you to open. Believe me, they've seen worse. OTOH, you might have a clerk that might have a PTSD reaction because of all the crackheads that have threatened/robbed/assaulted them in the past. I know that not everybody here does or wants to carry a non-threatening blade in addition to a main EDC, but I'll always advocate for doing so. A traditional slipjoint, SAK, or some sort of mini modern knife. If I were in that situation, I'd have used my Spyderco Ladybug, or, if I had it with me, my Magnus SlideClick utility knife.

I might act differently in, say, Albertsons or Ace Hardware though. Personally, I don't find myself inside "dollar stores" very often anyway.

ETA: It's entirely possible that the employees, because of the inherent dangerous nature of their job, aren't allowed even simple box cutters, for fear of them being used in self defense (and the lawsuits that follow). I'm sure all of us agree that those kinds of rules are BS, but they're an unfortunate reality of the world we live in.
 
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