I think I'm finally ready to speak of the matter...

As it turns out, my muk arrived nearly two months ago in the first batch. The knife, being a relatively low number, was immediately rewrapped and put it back in the smallish box in which it arrived. I did the right thing and sent a PM to the JYD to whom it numerically belonged.

While the details of the trade (with one of our most esteemed dogs) were worked out, I had to go out of town on business for a few days. While I was gone, my wife decided to paint the kitchen and... Decided to throw the cardboard box on the counter stuffed with brown paper (AND THE SMLE) in the recycling! By the time I returned home, it had been collected curb-side.

Therefore, I have no muk. A JYD has no muk with his JYD number on it. A fine piece of 154CM may still be somewhere in a massive sorting facility, wrapped in paper, as clean and new as the day it left Ohio. Women. Can't live with them - can't kill 'em.

I think my despair over the whole matter (not so much for my loss as for the loss for the other guy) has really wrecked my spring. I really need a low # S5LE to trade with a JYD to restore karmic justice! Therefore, bring the 'CG's then the 'LE's (and do it soon while my wife's guilt allows me some purchasing power)!

Oh man. I feel for ya. My wife threw away a friends knife I was making a sheath for. I had it in a plastic grocery bag. I felt so bad because I could not replace his exact knife. He was of course cool about it, but I still feel bad every time I see him.

Pick up a new blade a move on. It's the best you can do.

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[censored] man......

this happened to someone else recently, same scenario, their GF or wive threw it out by mistake. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" />

I just observed a moment of silence on your behalf. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" />

That's it Mark - play the "guilt card"! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Really a shame, but "stuff" happens! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> All the more reason to get an S5 LE AND CG!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I think your wife needs to buy you two new knives for this

Buzz Kill...

wait... is that a J33ps sighting? where have you been, man? you were one of the rocks of the yard who's been missing for far too long. thanks for showing up in my thread of misery!

j33ps you seem to be famous?

hmm. looks like Ron has been back for a day. Just didn't notice until now. Glad to have you back. previous post should have said "are" rather than "were".

There are advantages to being single -- nobody touches my stuff!! Seriously, that's a sad story. Perhaps it'll make some minimum-wage recycle sorter's day, but it's certainly a loss for you and the JYD you reached out to.

man it really sucks that she's going to have to spend so much of her free time looking for that knife. really, really sucks... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />