Every once in a while I get an idea from a visitor on what to write a blog about. This time it is about manners. Yes good old fashioned manners. I had an inquiry from a visitor wanting to buy a Bowie I have for sale. I responded within about 24 hours and confirmed it was still available and asked how he wanted to pay for it. No answer. I waited a couple days and sent a follow-up email, because people sometimes forget to check their junk mail. No answer. Not wanting him to think I just blew off his inquiry I placed a header on my home page. Maybe some of you saw it. No answer. I sent a third email. Mind you the price of the knife is below what I paid so it wasn't going to make or break me financially. I finally got an answer today 12/29/2025. The answer was "NOPE". Wow I guess he was too busy to say no thank you, or I changed my mind, just NOPE, in capital letters. My mental response is not one I woulld print here.
Now, out of hundreds of thousands of visitors and hundreds of wonderful interchanges i should consider myself lucky, even blessed by my visitors. All it takes is one JERK (capital letters) to give you a bad taste. What would make a man so ignorant that he could not respond considerately? Was it his upbringing? Did his parents act this way too, or just permit him to grow up a JERK? Many times people have told me I should charge for all of the emails I have written helping people dertemine what type of knife they have and its value. I'm not in this for the money. That should be obvious. My sales pages are just a clearing house of knives I have lost interest in, not an investment for profit. I have spent ten times the price of that one bowie on X-daggers and the sale of this knife was of no consequence in the larger scheme of things. I hope that someday this man will learn the value of good manners, even if its the hard way.
To the rest of you, readers and visitors alike, I wish you all a VERY HAPPY AND SAFE NEW YEARS. And as my grandma used to say "mind your manners."
Now, out of hundreds of thousands of visitors and hundreds of wonderful interchanges i should consider myself lucky, even blessed by my visitors. All it takes is one JERK (capital letters) to give you a bad taste. What would make a man so ignorant that he could not respond considerately? Was it his upbringing? Did his parents act this way too, or just permit him to grow up a JERK? Many times people have told me I should charge for all of the emails I have written helping people dertemine what type of knife they have and its value. I'm not in this for the money. That should be obvious. My sales pages are just a clearing house of knives I have lost interest in, not an investment for profit. I have spent ten times the price of that one bowie on X-daggers and the sale of this knife was of no consequence in the larger scheme of things. I hope that someday this man will learn the value of good manners, even if its the hard way.
To the rest of you, readers and visitors alike, I wish you all a VERY HAPPY AND SAFE NEW YEARS. And as my grandma used to say "mind your manners."
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