I carried a folding pocket knife every day from the time I was about 6,up to about the time I turned 60 and started staying and working at home. I keep a razor knife in each truck in case I need to cut something while away from home.
I carried the same small 3 bladed "Tree Brand" knife for about 30 years,and then one of my co-workers stole it off the table at work where I had been cutting bundles open with it when I went on break. Everybody back there worked for the post office and were making good money,yet one of the SOB's felt the need to steal a 20 dollar knife I had been carrying for 30 years,because there it was and nobody was watching. Really pissed me off. Still pissed off about it,too. I was friends with everybody there and nobody ever asked me for help and got turned down,yet one of my "friends" stole my pocket knife.
@sneakypete LOL! That's another I carry - a little Western 3-blade 'rancher' style penknife. It stays in my front right pocket, and is kept wicked sharp. It was given to me by one of my mentors at my first blood using a self made trap rig (spanish windlass IIRC)... I might have been 12-14 years at the time. It's been in that right pocket that long (I am 56 now)
Except that I lost it. A couple years later, I went to warranty a timber wall I built - One of the timbers developed a linear split and needed to be replaced - So I was digging down on the back side of that wall, and seen something bright leave the shovel... Went to look and there it was, completely unharmed, that lost penknife. Took it home, cleaned it up, soaked it in diesel overnight... good as new, and I have it to this very day.
But in the interim, the loss of my sharp knife forced a replacement, which was when I bought my first leatherman, which is the third 'knife' that is always on my person... so it's all good
**EDIT: 'LOL!' was not over the stolen knife - sorry if it looked that way - But rather on how things are much the same. It;s funny to me how younger men don't carry a penknife anymore - It was a treasured fixture back in our day.