Just out of curiosity, what do you use your penknife for?
Well, there’s all sorts of packaging that’s impossible to tear open, cutting zip-ties, I’ve used a regular Opinel for hacking overhanging brambles away when out walking, all kinds of everyday stuff. Even things like trimming a broken fingernail, to prevent it catching and either ripping right off or just the sharp bit scratching me.
I’ve carried a pocket knife since I was a child, I even used to take one to school, I could sharpen my pencils far better than using a pencil sharpener.
It’s just a natural thing to carry, I can’t imagine not being without one, my dad always carried one that he used to whittle whistles and stuff when we went out walking in the countryside, I have a pocketknife that belonged to a relative who had it on him when he was killed at Arras in 1917, at age 20, the wear on the blade clearly showed he must have used it everyday since he was a kid, I now use it, that knife is around a century old, and keeps a great edge.