“Butter Knife at 10:55pm”
That’s got to be a lot less scary than Zeros at 12 o’clock.
If you try and smoke hash off hot knives, plastic ones will melt.
Forgive my ignorance/innocence, but what’s wrong with other metal utensils?
“Hot knifing” involves pressing a spot of pot or hash between two knives. It’s easiest with a flat surface.
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This was my first thought. I wonder if anyone entered the store after the butter knife request was made? Or if anything was missing from the store?
My 2nd choice would be a scavenger hunt.
Not the first. We make an announcement that the store is closing at 10 til eleven, at which point an associate comes to the front door to let any last minute shoppers know we will be closing shortly as they come in. I was not that person. The door was covered.
Well maybe he has some important event* the next day/evening where a butter knife would be important. But he just found out he did not have one!
And maybe that was the only time he had available to find one - maybe had to work the next day and would not have time between work and the event to go buy one.
*Some events could be quite important to some people. Maybe Martha Stewart is coming over? Maybe you are getting married and your future in-laws are coming over? Maybe a boss coming over for dinner and you are in the fancy restaurant business? Etc.
As for myself, a regular knife - pocket knife, Swiss army knife will do. If they don’t like it, too bad! (Although I do have a butter knife.)
Because the butter fork ran away with the butter spoon?
Assassins’ convention.
After a few drinks, the bravado starts to flow, and they start making rash bets. This guy swore he was so good he could kill the President of the United States with a butter knife before midnight. Since no serious assassin carries a butter knife, and it would just be rude to steal one from the hotel, he had to try to source one locally.
You probably deserve a medal for your actions that night.
I didn’t read every reply but ------- maybe he found himself in some sort of jam? 
::slightly grudging applause::
He was moving, and needed to plaster toothpaste over the holes where he’d hung paintings in his old apt. Hardware stores and Home Depots were closed, so a real plaster tool was out of the question, and a butter knife is the next best thing. He needed to be out by morning when the office opened at 9am.
I’ve done this trick in dorm rooms with butter knives lifted from the cafeteria, and noted that Crest works better than Colgate, even though I am a Colgate user myself, so I buy a small tube of Crest before moving day.
Maybe he’s done this in dorms, and never in actual apartments, and doesn’t even realize there is an actual tool designed for this he could have gotten at a 24-hr. Walmart.
I’m not sure why a plastic knife would not have worked, unless he either thought it would break, or he just was married to the idea of the one tool he’d used in the past.
He wanted to scare someone with a non-deadly weapon.
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If there were a Post of the Day award, you deserve it. 