Hubris Comics

Have you seen those things?  The pocketknives that can no longer fit in your pocket?  You start off thinking “Oh, that’d be great, having everything you could ever need, there in your pocket”, but then once you’ve messed up the right front pocket of every pair of pants you own, you start thinking,”Maybe I could do without the fork.” because, let’s face it, you don’t use the fork more than once a month, right?  And have you tried eating with the spoon on those pocketknives?  You get soup all over the thing, and then the leather hook won’t open any more, and you always seem to bend a thumbnail back while you’re trying to get the can opener pulled out, which is stupid because you were trying to get the screwdriver bottle opener out anyhow.  Plus, once it’s been in your pocket for a month or two, you pull a lint ball out of the back of the knife that’d frighten anything with a sense of what’s naturally supposed to exist on earth.  I dunno.  I finally went back to a single blade pocketknife, and occasionally I’ll grab one of the little multi-tools I’ve accumulated over the years.  I carry that around for a month or two until I realize I haven’t used IT either the whole time, and just give it all a miss.

But those Mega-Ultra-Scout Knives with the LED flashlights and awl punches and the grooved corkscrew all made of surgical steel… ohhhh, I might have to get another one of those one day…