Daydream believer
Well-known member
Seriously, the knife might be necessary to cut yourself free, while trapped by a stray rope, under water, in some catastrophic incident, or more mundanely, cutting slices of chorizo!
Do you really believe that you are going to be able to find your knife, Unfold it, then cut the rope, If you can get to it. Then still get free in the 40 seconds it takes to drown you. It does not take long if you are being bounced about & were caught unawares before you start gulping mouthfuls of water.
As a dinghy sailor, I have been trapped under a dinghy on 4 occasions in my life & i assure you, you have no time to look in your pocket for a knife even if you know what pocket & if you can actually get your hand into the pocket to get it.
Chorizo !!
There are not many people that have a knife sharp enough to cut food cleanly. If you have a knife try cutting some nice neat slices of cucumber.
(Actually It makes a good party game if you do it with scissors & see how many slices you can cut in a given time from a set length of cucumber)