I’ve always got a pocket knife in my pocket, unless I’m about to go into somewhere where even those are forbidden and I forgot to leave it in the car. That doesn’t come up very often.
It doesn’t live in the car, though; and it’s a tool. So I just answered tools.
I use some tool on that knife probably on average several times a day, and some of those times occur when I’m in town.
– I’m somewhat surprised by the percentage of people posting here who apparently don’t have tools in their car. Not even a lug wrench?
I mean, every car comes with a lug wrench. I also don’t know why I’d need a multitool (which is what I think you mean when you say “knife”) in the car, but you do you.
Not exactly every car these days. If you have run-flats you don’t really need one, and a surprising number of cars don’t come with spare tires standard. Honestly I was kind of shocked when I read that, but it checks out.
It’s a Swiss army knife. I use the screwdrivers, the scissors, the awl as a general poker, one of the knife blades, and the tweezers; for anything from an unexpectedly torn fingernail or splinter or loose thread on my clothes, to getting packages open, to tightening down something I just noticed, to cutting a bit off something I want to eat (and additional stuff in the field.) It’s not in the car as such, it’s in my pocket; but if I’m in the car, then it’s in the car.
I understand that people manage in modern society without some equivalent in their pockets, but I don’t fully understand how. How do you get packages open?
Not every car still has one after people have had the car for a while; but that is kind of what I was thinking. I mean, if a baseball bat is a weapon, so is a lug wrench; but 63% of the respondents said there was nothing in their car that could be used as a weapon.
Ah. That might explain it.
Still, even a screwdriver or a hammer can be a weapon. I guess a lot of people just don’t keep any tools in their cars.
I don’t recall ever having to open a package when I was away from home. When does that happen?
For many years I carried a Swiss Army knife on my belt, but a few years ago I realized I was using it maybe once a year, so I decided the trouble of having it getting in my way every single day wasn’t worth the very occasional advantage of having it, so I stopped carrying it.
If I have a lug wrench, I don’t know where it is. By the time I got out of the car, opened the trunk, and found it, I would be dead or unconscious. So I don’t consider that a weapon.
OTOH, if I can get swinging room for my purse, that’s a weapon. (but I don’t think of it as such)
For the casting poll I picked other. If I was casting someone I always felt I would seek out actors who I liked in the past but who haven’t done anything since then. Like what is happening with Ke Huy Quan right now.
Hell, I wash potatoes before and after I peel them. Potatoes are one of the dirtiest vegetables in terms of pesticides and other contaminants… though I don’t have a good sense of how dangerous that is overall, after decades of eating potatoes regularly.
Calvin and Hobbes over Bloom County by a light year. Genius over mediocrity IMHO.
I still write checks. I’ve read too many stories about data breaches to want to have my credit card number sitting in lots of company files.
We have a garlic press and use at least once a week. It came with a little plastic doohickey to clean out the holes, but some of its tines got bent, so nowadays I usually just soak the press in water and the leftover garlic crud then cleans out pretty easily.
I always have my Swiss Army knife (Eagle Scout version!) with me, and use it often. It’d be too small to help me in a carjacking, however.
Oh, i don’t think any of the things i have is an effective weapon. I wouldn’t try to use any of them if i were car jacked. I still voted that i had them.
I have a friend who got in a lot of trouble crossing the US Canadian border because he didn’t declare that he had a weapon when there was a pocket knife in the center console. He didn’t think of it as a weapon, so he had said “no” when asked. If he’d declared it, it would have been legal.
