addict extraordinaire (sp?)

[Xibalba]

Hi all!

OK, here's the scoop...

One of my closest friends (a karate/hunting/camping buddy) finds himself pocket-knifeless. He used to carry a cute little CE onehanded Buck folder with a crappy clip which he kept losing and finding again (even lost it at my house once). Lo and behold, it comes up missing last fall while bow hunting, never to turn up again. I gave him a $5 spyder knock-off with a broken clip that I had kicking around (which he had actually given to me last year at hunting camp, before I got a real <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>), just so he had an EDC. Recently at his house he asks me if I have a knife so he can cut the twine on some hay bales and feed his horses, because he had recently lost that <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>copy. This gets me to thinking, since his birthday is in a month, that I should get him a decent knife. So I go to eknifeworks.com, look around, settle on a Calypso Jr., SE, for only $25. Of course, MY birthday is tomorrow, and since I have some gift $ kicking around, I decide that I need to order 2 Calypso Jr's and keep one for myself <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>. My wife, enabling my addictive behavior, says that if the Calypsos are discontinued and I can add one to my collection for so cheap that I should not pass this up.

Is there a 12 Step Program for us?

If there were, would any of us admit to our problem?

And if we do, do we really want to change?

My guess is N<img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> ! <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>



Mike



"'The best de-fense is a good o-ffense.' You know who said that? Mel, the cook from 'Alice'!" - Ed Gruberman

[voxnaes]

I do not know what your talking about, I have no problem at all. You cant call a guy an addict just because he might take his sons birthdaymoney (I really needed that Wegner mouse, and maybe they discontinue it tomorrow)and spend it on something that he can take over when the father dies...

[Mongrel]

Isn't there some kind of Spyderco rule about casting pearls before swine <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

How could you give a Spyderco to someone you KNOW will lose IT!!!

SHAME ON YOU-that's what they make Fury's for.

Just kidding man, just the thought of that little Calypso all alone out in the big woods...

Mongrel <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

[Xibalba]

Mongrel,
My hope (and maybe I'm a bit niave) is that, upon owning a wonderful <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>, my friend will be compelled to keep better track of his knives and not let them wander from his pocket into the deep dark wood, only to get eaten by some sort of sick knife munching witch living in a gingerbread house...

Or maybe, since the clips on <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>s are so darn good, it won't keep falling out of his pocket in the first place <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>.

Mike

"'The best de-fense is a good o-ffense.' You know who said that? Mel, the cook from 'Alice'!" - Ed Gruberman

[Jeff/1911]

Xibalba,

That's a nice thing to do. And I think you're wise to order one for yourself too. Just think, won't it be fun to have matching knives?

Jeff/1911.

[Zabrewolf]

Xibalba,
There is hope for your friend. My good friend Styder didn't have much knife knowledge before we met but with good examples, and a few well chosen gifts he became a knife coinsure. And it is cool having matching knives with your friend.

The length of our days and time of our death have been fated long ago.

[travis quaas]

I figure if he is having a problem with loosing his knives, perhaps you can get him the C13? It's the Pro-Grip model. Once it's clipped in, it stays;

[sam the man..]

one with a lanyard hole too! <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> To make it klutz-proof! <img src="tongue.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

Sam

have bone implant will travel..

[Sword and Shield]

I'd say a good knife will definitely cause him to look at blades differently, especially since it comes from a friend.

As for curing the <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>Addiction, no, thank you. The SpyderAddicts Treatment Center &lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt; is still running strong.

Keepin' it real...real sharp, that is.

[spidernoiree]

Problem.
What problem?
I bought my first spyderco (a delica) back in 1991. 50+ knives later and still going. If this is an addiction, then I'm a &quot;Yes&quot; man in a just say no society.

Nemo