> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter H. Granzeau [mailto:pgranzeau at cox.net] > > At 07:53 02/09/2005, Howard Brazee wrote: > >Jeff Gibbons wrote: > > > > > Heh. I debated on carrying a knife at the last wedding I went to. As > > > I was presiding over it, I decided to leave it with my street cloths. > > > >I was given a knife for being Best Man at a wedding. > > I was taught that a gift of a knife could cut a friendship; thus, in my > family, such a gift was always paid for with a token sum (a dime or a > postage stamp or something). > > Has anyone else ever run across that? My mother follows that tradition. In fact, she always makes my dad hand her a penny whenever she replaces his pocket knife at Christmas.