Why you should always carry a knife

In this article, we will tell you not only about the advantages of the knife, which you probably do not even realize, but also about the reasons to always carry a knife with him.

Perhaps many of us have a "gentleman's set" that we take with them when they leave the house. This set of items is likely to vary depending on how far you are going. If this outing to shop for yogurt, you can do without the phone, but if you are going to visit or to work, you probably ASSUME a bag in which there is everything you need, from money and documents to pepper spray and some deodorant.

Almost certainly in your bag would be something that can be read, and the more the mass of some unnecessary stuff with an eye to the end of the world. However, with all the abundance of things is rarely enough in a male or female bag can be found one of the oldest Paleolithic artifacts - a knife, which can serve as both a tool and a weapon.

Dagger is good for someone who does, and bad for those who have it will not appear at the right time.

Abdulla, K / f "White Sun of the Desert"

In a warm September day times dashing 90 my brother and I went to the grocery store. On the way back, right at the exit of the underpass, we "met" two too small third grader. And even though I was in the seventh grade, and therefore, was bigger and stronger, and besides, for two weeks as a walk on a close fight, the blade shine in the hand of one of the young thugs seemed suddenly gripped me. Paralyzed by fear, my brother and I, of course, gave punks all the remaining money and trudged home in tears.

Ever since, except once, when to protect against uncontrolled classmates I brought to school "butterfly", I forgot about the knives and pocket wore modest Yawar - wooden magic wand, something like brass knuckles legal. I must say that I was very terrible possibility of thunder somewhere in the police, because I knew that, if they wish, be able to cling even to a piece of wood.

So I lived in his limited world, if the new job is not met with a colleague who was fond of knives. I was surprised to find that he is always carrying a knife. More big surprise for me was the fact that our project manager - clever, vegan and yogi in one person - the same goes with a folding knife. I decided to join their club nozhevikov and bought a high-quality Chinese model, though at first the daily wearing of a knife and caused mixed feelings in me. But over time, I was so used to his knife that almost stopped without going outside. It turned out that the knife - this is a very useful toolbox to which you get used quickly, as well as to all good.

The knife can be useful

1. Knife - it flatware. You come to the restaurant, and there are kitchen knives, which need a half hour saw this pathetic piece of hard meat. Or even worse - disposable blades from plastic. Use of such devices - not to respect themselves. In such cases, your personal a sharpened knife will come in handy.
2. Knife - it opener. When you have at hand a knife, you are able to in a few seconds to open any jar / bottle / box.
3. Knife - it scissors. Of course, it is unlikely you will be able to use a knife to mow his favorite dog, but cut paper, fabric or cut a piece of duct tape - it easily.
4. Knife - it screwdriver. Of course, it is better screwdriver can only be a good screwdriver. But if you put her needs, and there is nothing close, your output - a knife, which, with the proper luck, it is possible to unscrew like screw with slotted or "cross".
5. Knife - it pencil sharpener. No, it's even better than a pencil sharpener, because a knife can be sharpened pencil on your own, whereas conventional sharpener though gives same clean cut on the tree, but suffers from a blunt tip of the lead.
6. Knife - it carpenter's tool. Of the knife can even carve a new knife! However, from a tree.
7. Knife - it razor. Sometimes, in the morning, and shaved hastily arrived at the office, you find somewhere on the cheek treacherously protruding hair. Who to work with him carries a razor? And if the hand is a sharp knife and then shave is not a problem.
8. Knife - it a spear. Tied to the end of the stick blade, you can make a spear, which Rambo sitting on paleodieteHunting for boars when the partisans in the woods near the town of Hope.
9. Knife - it emergency hammer. The one which for some reason is never at hand when you need to break the glass in a burning or sinking bus. Mass blade and its handle solid possess excellent qualities emergency hammer. In some models of knives on the end of the handle there is even a pre stekloboynik that allows you to break the glass with minimal effort.
10. Knife - it nuclear weapon. Not literally, of course. But as a weapon of "containment" - very even. If everyone carried a knife, then in society it would be a lot more mutual respect, civility and harmony.
11. Knife - it brass knuckles. Even when folded knife can play a crucial role in a street confrontation. Nested fist folded knife not only adds weight impact, but also, like Yavari, allows the back and front side of the handle for applying the binder and crushing blows.
12. Knife - it steel arms. If you learn the knife fight and have the necessary psychological training, your chances increase dramatically in street fights. Even the only foreseeable presence of a knife in your pocket will help potential bandits make the correct conclusion that you better not mess with. Suddenly you nozhevik?

Of course, unlike lipstick or deodorant, it is desirable to have the knife so that it can be as fast as possible to get - it it is important for any kind of emergency situations, whether it be a fight or the need to cut someone else's scarf, which began to suck escalator underground. Therefore, it may be that you have to sacrifice "buoyant" in the place of one of the trouser pockets, to house his knife there. I, for example, to carry a knife in the right pocket, had to be retrained to carry the phone in your left pocket and get used to using the phone with one hand. But now the knife is always at hand!

It would be interesting to know whether you carry a knife or other weapon, and as you yourself feel about it.