If I want to use my largest pair of channel locks, they are in a drawer in the kitchen. My wife discovered they are great for opening screw top lids.

HA! This thread is killing me, and here I thought my situation was the norm. I had a great set of steak knives for many years until shortly after my marriage. Now, just about every knife with the exception of the largest have their points either broke off or bent. Currently, now it's like a mix-n-match in that knife block as now many are missing, and new oddball ones have taken their places...

Where did they disappear to??

Her, Step one: Open shipping box.

Her Step two: Inventory parts before beginning assembly.

Me, passing by: "Look at the nice boxcutter!" (In my mind)

Sometimes it's dudes. Once a male co-worker came up to me and asks to borrow my knife. I whip out my CRKT and hand it to him. He replies, "That should work" and starts to use it as a screwdriver. It went back in my hand pretty fast with me screaming, "NNNNOOOOOOO!!!". Then I hand him my Leatherman instead.

I’m not going to name names, but someone left my wood handle Chicago Cutlery carving set that I’ve had for 25 years soaking in water overnight after Thanksgiving.

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Originally posted by rsbolo:
My wife learned the lesson after I told her how much the knife she had ruined would cost to replace.

When I complained about how the Shun knives I bought were chipped probably from being used to hack bones, mentioning the price was not a winning strategy for me. "I was happy with the cheap knives we had so I can use them without worrying about chipping them."

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Originally posted by rburg:
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Some battles aren't worth fighting. Teaching an uncooperative wife about knife use isn't one of them.
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Word. I'll sharpen but I'm done replacing. We could have holy Excaliber and she would use it to loosen a lug nut.

I'll never buy good knives for our kitchen. Mrs. vinnybass uses them to pry up the rings on pop-top cans & cut stuff on the granite countertop despite there being a minimum of two cutting boards always available.

She said to me just yesterday, "All these knives are dull." MmmmHmmm, yep...they are.

Where do you work that steak knives are readily available in a way someone would not have to make a greater effort to find one than a box cutter?

solution is to buy box cutters and put them in every drawer, knife storage unit, anywhere packages need to be opened.

Be sure they are painted in XX gender based colors, and bedazzle them if you feel the need for extra knife protection, in fact get the Pink Power Box cutter for a stocking stuffer.

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Originally posted by kkina:
Sometimes it's dudes. Once a male co-worker came up to me and asks to borrow my knife. I whip out my CRKT and hand it to him. He replies, "That should work" and starts to use it as a screwdriver. It went back in my hand pretty fast with me screaming, "NNNNOOOOOOO!!!". Then I hand him my Leatherman instead.

I was in roll call one morning and a fellow cop said “hey can I borrow your knife.
I did the same thing and tossed him my spyderco endura…

He starts to pry open something…I yelled in my big boy voice, “STOOOOOOPPP!” The whole room froze…sergeant froze and quit talking, people looking around reaching for their guns…
I looked at him and said, “ just put my knife down, now.” I walked around and picked it up, left the room and returned with a flat screwdriver from my police car..

This thread is hilarious. It’s making me appreciate the Mrs. even more. Last Christmas she asked for a *nice* kitchen knife… she decided on a Santoku. I ponied up and got a Miyabi for her. She’s done me proud taking care of it. So much so that I just bought a matching Miyabi utility knife for one of this years presents

 
I keep the knives I use separate from the main kitchen cutlery drawer. I have one steak knife (all I need) and 3 nice Wusthofs. The wife buys her own, and replaces them as needed (about once/year for a set of 8 steak knives). Occasionally she asks me to sharpen one of her carving knives. The nicks in the blade and overall dullness mean I have to start with the coarsest stone I have, or even a grinding wheel (frequent submersion in water while using the wheel);

It is XX for sure. I have no idea what it is that makes XX think differently. My observation is that XX are devoted to (1)accomplishing a mission (2)completing a mission right now (3)thinking only about the mission at hand (4)adapt / improvise / overcome.

What I mean is that XX that I know personally have a momentary focus that makes important information vanish. Let me offer a theoretical illustration. The fact that a knife is not a screwdriver, nor a pry bar, and cost $250, and is essentially irreplaceable as part of a set purchased 10 years ago, seems to vanish. What is of utmost and immediate importance is to use whatever is at hand for this mission. Pry open the paint can? I have this knife right here right now. What else is there? Not interested in thinking about the alternates. Walk to the garage to get a screwdriver? Not gonna happen.

There seems to be a willingness to do whatever it takes to finish the job, but without a view of long term consequences or optimal solutions.

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I'm as picky about my drop forged German Henckels knives as I am about my early 80s Craftman tools (i.e. Made in USA) in my garage.

Therefore, I keep a cheap mini toolset in the kitchen. Hammer, pliers, screwdriver, etc that the mortgage company gave me at closing. IDGAF what happens to these tools.

I have yet to meet a woman, outside of law enforcement/military/etc., that carries a pocket knife daily. And yet, the ones I work with have no issues asking to borrow mine. Or my flashlight.

...You guys use screwdrivers to pry things?

Sounds like just a matter of degree. A screwdriver isn't a prybar either.

In all seriousness if you ask your partner or significant other to respect things as to not break or damage them and they blatantly ignore you then you are dealing with someone who is extremely immature or just outright has no respect for you.
Either way that behavior shouldn't be tolerated and viewed as a deal breaking red flag.