<p>well the sad thing about my hunting knife episode is that, if you think about it, the guy might have been afraid of ME (all 5’2") or he normally carried a knife in a position to be ready for self-defense. It was tucked behind his butt, with the knife blade pointed down in between the seat back and seat cushion.</p>
<p>Why didn’t I report it to the police? Because when I arrived at my friends in AUstin, they said that’s just country ways and I shouldn’t bother with it. Since I was from far away, I thought they had a handle on what might be new and deifferent for me in the South. </p>
<p>I think a lot of these are issues of gut feelings more than statistics, so that each family will do what is right for their own sense of things. I kept the knife for years, and showed it to my preteen kids to show them the story was for real. They asked me to give it away, so I donated it to a rummage sale.</p>