Why?

[Clay Kesting]

My little bloke is nearly six now. His most treasured possession is an engraved, stainless Dragonfly which the :spyder: crew so generously sent him when he was born. I mind it for him but every so often he asks to look at it and soon I will let him start using it. He learnt his middle name from the engraving when he was about three. This caused some raised eyebrows from relatives when he was asked how he knew his middle name and he replied, "From my knife.":D

Recently we were looking at his Dragonfly and then he asked to look at some of my other Spydies. After casting the critical eye of an aficionado over several, he paused turned to me and said, "Dad, why do boys like knives so much?"

I think it's in the genes ;) .

clay

[Piet.S]

I think it's in the genes ;)

Must be so.

[deeker]

Makes perfect sense to me, Clay

(or, with the Clip-it, it's in the jeans...:o )

[Harry White]

great story. and a very good question raised by your son! one he will spend a lifetime trying to answer.:)

[Th232]

Definitely somewhere in the genes.

That said, I'm wondering if the gene pool's degrading:(

[CKE]

Clay, great story and thanks for sharing! Just wait till he is away at college and you get the phone call he needs more money, first ask yourself if it is because he bought too many knives with his tuition money:eek:

:D :D :D








I know I did:spyder: :D :spyder:

Craig

[snuffaluff]

It's just instinct for us men to like knives... like eating red meat

[Kaizen]

Mine are in the front right pocket of my genes. Knives assist us men in doing the 2 things we love to do: construction and destruction.

[dialex]

Hi Clay, thanks for the great story. My little son also has a similar Dragonfly (he's only 3, but already likes knives and swords). Once, I carved him a knife from a piece of wood and he forgot about the cars and plush toys and such, all he was playing with was that puny knife. It had rounded egeds and the tip was as blunt as a soupspoon so there wasn't any real danger but my wife didn't like the fact that the kid was always with the knife in his hand and cutting dozens after dozens of thin air monsters. :) So she seized the wooden knife and gave him a boomerang instead. And the little one takes the boomerang, watches it for a couple seconds than comes to me yelling: "Dad, Dad, look I got a kukri!" :D

[Th232]

Hi Clay, thanks for the great story. My little son also has a similar Dragonfly (he's only 3, but already likes knives and swords). Once, I carved him a knife from a piece of wood and he forgot about the cars and plush toys and such, all he was playing with was that puny knife. It had rounded egeds and the tip was as blunt as a soupspoon so there wasn't any real danger but my wife didn't like the fact that the kid was always with the knife in his hand and cutting dozens after dozens of thin air monsters. :) So she seized the wooden knife and gave him a boomerang instead. And the little one takes the boomerang, watches it for a couple seconds than comes to me yelling: "Dad, Dad, look I got a kukri!" :D

That's one cool story! Hey, has your wife heard what he said about the boomerang yet?

Actually, more importantly, is it a hunting boomerang?:D

[dialex]

Yeah, it's the steel boomerang used by that savage kid in Mad Max 2 :eek: ;)
Now seriously, it's just a plastic thing. A safe boomerang, if you like, meaning that when you throw it, it WON'T come back to you, thus avoiding any risk of injury... :rolleyes: (the rolling eyes were my wife's when she heard the boy's reply) :D