Awkard moments or negative responses while using your EDC!

[Hudson974]

In high school I always had my Smith&Wesson SWAT in my pocket. Teachers knew it, Administrator knew it and they all didn't care about it. Maybe it had something to do with being the in the schools Boy Scout troop.

Day after I was sick senior and the administrator was standing outside the office. I needed to get some info about our class trip that I needed, so I go to write, pen don't work. So I reach into my pocket to grab my backup, well as a draw my hand out, the knife clip sticks to my watchband and my knife falls to the floor and opens halfway as it hits.

At this time a group of the annoying group of freshmen were walking by. They stopped cold and looked at it and me as I picked it up and put it away. From that day forward they never were annoying to me. I guess they figured if I could drop a knife in front of the administrator and not get in trouble, that I could get away with anything.

[Organdonor]

My father is an attorney for a huge insurance company in Hartford. The parking garage is across the street, and he has to walk over at night when he works late. About three years ago a guy tried to mug him the garage. The mugger pulled out a crappy steak knife and threatened him with it. My dad's not allowed to CCW to work, and he forgot about the pepper spray ASP kubaton on his key chain. He just yelled "NO!" at the guy until the guy ran off.

Not having any of this, I got my dad the biggest mutha-fuckin' Spyderco I could buy. He hasn't had any issues carrying in clipped to his pocket of his suits, and he leaves it in the car when he goes into court.

When he showed it to another lawyer and informed him his son bought it for him, the guy's response was "Wow... your son must really love you."

LOL

[Towanda]

In some circles I'm known as Towanda of the Tool People.

[AlphaMMA]

Started a new job, and I've already found two uses for the AA maglite I EDC.

First day on the job, some kid dropped a cap to a bottle of liquor and it fell under where we keep the soda canisters. I worked around him, but after a few minutes of watching him feel around under the cabinet, out comes the maglite and he was able to locate the cap in seconds. Also, same kid was trying to open something (I can't remember for the life of me what it was). Out comes the 3 3/4" SW SWAT and it opens right up!

Third day this old guy that doesn't do anything lost a lid to a tuppaware container. Bust out the maglite and... oh, there it is. Hiding in the shadows. He is a crazy, perverted, lazy fuck and he must have repeated the phrase "I'm impressed" about 8 times before I walked away.

[SMoAF]

I once dug mud out of an automobile tailpipe that was completely blocked after a "minor Oopsie!" with the only ersatz tool at hand (in my car trunk...that's "boot" to you English people! ) that would do the job...a P-1907 SMLE bayonet. I got some VERY strange looks.

[SMoAF]

In high school I always had my Smith&Wesson SWAT in my pocket. Teachers knew it, Administrator knew it and they all didn't care about it.

Many of us come from a different era. "Back in the day", a good friend of mine carried a loaded Ruger Super Blackhawk in his backpack to school every day for the entire 4 years we were in high school. We all knew about it, and nobody cared. Nowadays, if a kid mentions that he has a gun at home, some administrators have kittens. Hell, I know of one kid who drew ISS for googling "glock" on a school computer.

[SMoAF]

A 'friend' stood behind me, saw my knife and reached for it. In a reflex I grabbed his hand and planted my elbow into his face... well, let's just say that he never get's within 5 feet of my knife without asking me

Heh. Many moons ago, a college buddy of mine and I were walking across campus. He spat out his gum onto the ground. A college policeman (they're "real" cops, with the same arrest powers as State Troopers) who neither of us had seen came up behind him and grabbed his left shoulder. My buddy grabbed the cop's wrist with his right hand, pulled him off-balance, and elbowed him in the face with his left elbow, bloodying the cop's nose. It was entirely instinctive...we'd both spent far too much time bouncing in punk bars in our youth. We picked him up and stopped the bleeding, my buddy apologized, and told him that he wouldn't have done it if he knew that it was a cop, he thought somebody was attacking him. The cop admitted that he should have identified himself, asked him to not spit out his gum on the sidewalk any more, and left.

There are times I miss being in college...

[SMoAF]

When I first got my Maxpedition Versipack, one guy at work asked me "Do you carry your hand grenades in there?"

I've been asked (in all seriousness) if I have hand grenades, claymore mines, et cetera before. My stock response is to hold up both hands, waggle my fingers, and explain that I don't mess with explosives, because I like having all my fingers.


/notes that I think I may have some claymore clackers upstairs somewhere...

[Pondo_Sinatra]

Many of us come from a different era. "Back in the day", a good friend of mine carried a loaded Ruger Super Blackhawk in his backpack to school every day for the entire 4 years we were in high school. We all knew about it, and nobody cared. Nowadays, if a kid mentions that he has a gun at home, some administrators have kittens. Hell, I know of one kid who drew ISS for googling "glock" on a school computer.

Pretty sad. Used to be a time when it wouldn't even raise an eyebrow to see shotguns/rifles in the gunracks of pickups in the school parking lot. Nowadays, I'm sure an air rifle would get SWAT/HRT on scene toot sweet, and an airsoft replica would warrant suspension.

[Lucretius]

Ok, sorry, not really EDC, but last night camping my littlest daughter needed to go nr. 2. My wife asked me "I suppose you've got a shovel", which I of course had. A foldable one, making a latrine in seconds.

The standard response here applies otherwise, maglites, multitools, folding knives are things everyone needs, but few actually carry.

Then, when needed, people make fun of you for actually carrying these items. At the same time they're begging for your help. Very, very strange! We should be making the fkn jokes, right?

[Apollo-11]

You know, I was at my stepdad's retirement party today. It was an outdoor potluck with a bunch of people at a park. I went from one thing to the next, using my pocketknife to open a package, helping cut something in the food area, starting a fire with a magnesium starter, etc. I was thinking about my stepdad giving me a pocketknife for Christmas about 25 years ago, then later giving me heck one time for not having it on me when we were working outside. Since that day, I started carrying it everywhere (I still have that one, but now I carry a Leatherman and Swiss army knife) and now I absolutely could not imagine functioning without one. About the only thing I didn't use today from my EDC man-purse was my flashlight. But the day ain't over yet.

Those aunties and cousins at the park know that I carry all kinds of things and I'm handy. So they put me to work... 'course I kidded them all over the place about not having the proper tools.

[Lucretius]

Apollo-11:

+1 for preemptive taunting of the non-prepared (or preparedness challenged, whatever the pc term). I'll try it myself!

[chubbly1]

At a meeting of my local zoning board this week someone noticed some papers were stapled upside down in a handout to be given to the public. They needed a staple remover and didn't have one. I pulled out my 2, maybe 3 inch pocket knife to remove them and the guy next to me looks at it and says. "Oh, a knife..". I really didn't know if it was "Oh, yeah, that'll work... why aren't I carrying one?" or "Oh, sweet jesusfuck...a knife...WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE".

If you were at a Zoning Board Meeting...it was "Sweet jesusfuck...WE'RE ALL GONNA' DIE!!!!"

If the guy was actually surprised enough to have said, "Oh, a knife." He thought he was in peril. A real man would have said "Schweet! Can I see it?" Or..."Mine's bigger."

I'd also like to go on record as saying "Sweet jesusfuck" is my new favorite expletive. Thank you ZS for expanding my vocabulary.

Actually, nothing could be better than the line from the movie (and for the life of me I can't remember the name, but it involves, in this scene, two red-neck brothers wearing cowboy hats, who go like this:)
Brother 1: Shit!
Brother 2: Fuck!
Brothers 1 & 2: Shit Fuck!

I laugh until my jaw hurts every time I see that. (So, you would think I would remember the movie, neh? Unfortunately, no....)

That was "Blind Fury" with Rutger Hauer. One of my favorite movies!

[Lucretius]

This spring I've helped two relatives reassembling their outdoor furniture after winter storage.

Both times they asked if I needed any tools etc.

Both times I answered "No, I'm fine".

Both times they failed to believe I actually could assemble furniture without a toolbox.

So, both times they went into their houses, looking for tools - ignoring my answer.

Both times, I'd finished the job, using my Leatherman multitool, before they'd found their tools.

They just stood there with their bulky toolboxes, looking like I'd just walked on water.

As mentioned, this happened to me twice.

Oh! The humanity! (I just wish they'd asked if I needed a cold beer ).

Ok, so this wasn't so awkward for me, but I bet it was to them - so this post belongs here, right?

[DarkScythe]

Started a new job, and I've already found two uses for the AA maglite I EDC.

First day on the job, some kid dropped a cap to a bottle of liquor and it fell under where we keep the soda canisters. I worked around him, but after a few minutes of watching him feel around under the cabinet, out comes the maglite and he was able to locate the cap in seconds. Also, same kid was trying to open something (I can't remember for the life of me what it was). Out comes the 3 3/4" SW SWAT and it opens right up!

Third day this old guy that doesn't do anything lost a lid to a tuppaware container. Bust out the maglite and... oh, there it is. Hiding in the shadows. He is a crazy, perverted, lazy fuck and he must have repeated the phrase "I'm impressed" about 8 times before I walked away.

Drop the Maglite man, drop the maglite.

Get yourself a Fenix Flashlight preferably a L2D Premium Q5.

[Lynxian]

Drop the Maglite man, drop the maglite.

Get yourself a Fenix Flashlight preferably a L2D Premium Q5.

Suggestions are cool, but do give argumentation; why's the Fenix better than the Maglite?

[DarkScythe]

Drop the Maglite man, drop the maglite.

Get yourself a Fenix Flashlight preferably a L2D Premium Q5.

Suggestions are cool, but do give argumentation; why's the Fenix better than the Maglite?

Do some research and you'll see.

Im sure everybody on here carries either a Surefire or Fenix brand of Led flashlight.

[Apollo-11]

Well, not *everyone*. Mini-mag with Nite-ize LED conversion, plus a Princeton Tec Attitude, and an Innova X5. I have wayyyy too many flashlights.

[Lynxian]

Do some research and you'll see.

Im sure everybody on here carries either a Surefire or Fenix brand of Led flashlight.

I'm not going to conduct research just because random person #348 on the intarwebz says product Y is better than product X and then promptly leaves without any kind of argumentation. You make a point, you provide the argumentation. I'm not going to search for your argumentation. If we would all do that then a forum would quickly lose its function.

[Lucretius]

Lynxian:

Hear, hear! Well said!

You could at least expect a HINT about what's better about the Fenix flashlight...

I guess there's a good deal of snobbism around here, a lot of feeling superior because you've a better piece of gear than some n00b with no clue (or, as in most cases, some person who has other obligations than researching flashlights all day). I come here so I don't HAVE to do all the research on my own - that's the whole point! And if I make a stupid mistake in choice of flashlight (or in packing my BOB, or in my EDC, etc.), please let me know, but kindly give me the reasoning too.

Btw, I just found that the light on my cell phone has a SOS morse function, which I just installed a shortcut to! That's good backup to my Maglite, and Silva headlamp, which both serve me very well!

[Napalm{WmD}]

I cary a $5 husky led light from Lowes. It works great for me.

[Charlotte]

When it's dark and you can't see what you're doing, any torch is better than no torch in my opinion.

But my Fenix L2D is about fifty squillion tonnes brighter than my old AA Minimag. Even after the Nitize LED conversion. Really - you just have to see it to appreciate it. The thing's like a searchlight in the palm of your hand.

If it was a gun, it would be like packing a .454 Casull with a 20 round cylinder in the size of a Derringer...

[Czechnology]

Drop the Maglite man, drop the maglite.

Get yourself a Fenix Flashlight preferably a L2D Premium Q5.

Suggestions are cool, but do give argumentation; why's the Fenix better than the Maglite?

Do some research and you'll see.

Im sure everybody on here carries either a Surefire or Fenix brand of Led flashlight.

I carry a Phoebus, personally.

[ZombieGranny]

I did a little research - For the $58.50 as the cheapest price for a single Fenix, I have a whole bunch of flashlights.
They may not be as good, but I know where to lay my hands on one anywhere around here. Inside, outside, on key chains, in cars, purses, bobs... I could never afford that with expensive flashlights.