I recently purchased a Mini-RSK (GREAT knife for the price BTW) for my wife and she doesn't understand why I feel you should always have a light and a knife with you at all times. She sees why you might want the light, but indicates she never really has the need for a knife.

I'm from Alaska, and as my mother pointed out, basically all men there carry a knife, so as far as I'm concerned, not carrying a knife is the oddity. Even so, my mother thinks this is sort of a "guy" thing.

From my perspective, I see the knife as such a rudimentary tool that I can't quite articulate why in terms that my wife (and mother) would understand.

I've seen this come up here before, so I thought perhaps I'd put up this challenge for someone to capture it on paper in a somewhat (an urban) PC context, so that all of us with this problem might benefit.

Thanks!

-john