I realized how scared the general public was of knives for the first time when I was visiting a friend in Grapevine about a year ago. We somehow ended up at his little sister's volleyball game. A girl on the team had some kind of bracelet / string tied around her wrist, and the Ref said she couldn't play with it. After trying to untie it, the coach asked if anyone had scissors. I whipped out my Gerber and handed it to him, he used it and handed it back (after he couldn't figure out how to close it). The hushed silence should have clued me in, but I thought nothing of it 'til 4 or 5 people moved away from me when I sat down again.
