It seems like I’m not the only one who graduated to a penknife or pocket knife when I turned a certain age.

My friends over at eBladeStore.com changed their pocketknife landing page to include the cinematic memory of “Today you are a man.”
I can appreciate that firsthand, and I’m excited to hand down some of the knives I have in my garage drawer to my son (or sons or daughters, I can’t be too sure what because my wife is now pregnant with TWINS, so I could have sons, daughters or one of each by the time 2010 rolls around).

The strange thing about handing down pocketknives is that by itself it’s a traditional form of recycling!

All of these hippies coming out of the woodwork to claim their dedication to the earth with their environmental hibbidydooda and saving of the rain forests, I will stand firm in keeping the knives I’ve received as hand-me-downs continually handing down the food chain. Hopefully one day my spawn will patiently chop down his very first tree with a knife that my father was given when he turned 8 years old.

I can see it now:

photo credit: James Jordan
There’s a storm on the horizon, gas has just reached $7.99 a gallon, milk is now tainted with cheese dust from cheetos, Israel and Palestine made up and now live in a country called New New Jersey, and I’m handing my son his very first blade…

photo credit: Pingu1963

“Son, go rip some crap to shreds, it’s about time you learned to respect your ability to destroy things. Only then can you build a bridge out of this hell hole.”

photo credit: Larsz

Screw an XBox, buy your kid some Pocket Knives

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