Hoplophobia
Feb. 8th, 2007 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerAt one of the last RiverCons, several years ago, I had an interesting encounter with someone who actively promoted irrationality in regard to a knife.
I was on an elevator crowded with non-fen women and children; part of a softball tournament, IIRC. One of the kids had pushed every single button, making for a long ride. I don’t recall him being punished, or the child's mother even protesting this. Anyway, I was taking a bread knife to the con suite to cut the sourdough bread I had dropped off there earlier. I didn't want anyone - me included - to bump into it, so I was holding it up, flat against my chest. One of the women glared at me and snarlingly chastised me for having a knife out in the open like that, where it could frighten someone, and "Why don't you hide it?"
I realized she wouldn't accept that I was holding it up to avoid hurting anyone. So I calmly said, in a slightly sinister voice, "Then it would be a _concealed_ weapon." She did her best to move away from me in the sardinized situation.
I was on an elevator crowded with non-fen women and children; part of a softball tournament, IIRC. One of the kids had pushed every single button, making for a long ride. I don’t recall him being punished, or the child's mother even protesting this. Anyway, I was taking a bread knife to the con suite to cut the sourdough bread I had dropped off there earlier. I didn't want anyone - me included - to bump into it, so I was holding it up, flat against my chest. One of the women glared at me and snarlingly chastised me for having a knife out in the open like that, where it could frighten someone, and "Why don't you hide it?"
I realized she wouldn't accept that I was holding it up to avoid hurting anyone. So I calmly said, in a slightly sinister voice, "Then it would be a _concealed_ weapon." She did her best to move away from me in the sardinized situation.
