DaveH

This brought back memories of a funny incident.

I took some out of town guest to visit the Holocaust Museum, shortly after it opened. I had a small pocket knife with me.

The guards took out a ruler and proceeded to have an argument among themselves about how to measure a blade length -- i.e., "From the tip [ to the end of the sharpened portion of the blade vs. to the hinge pin vs. to back of the metal with the knife half open so as to measure the entire blade, were it unassembled]"

After a bit I said something like "It's a pen knife. No matter how you measure it it's shorter than [whatever they had said was the limit]. The whole thing folded is shorter than [???] and the blade is shorter than the handle that it is folded into."

Back came, "We need to measure and record the length of the blade."

A supervisor was called and somewhere in some archive there is a record that I carried an inch and whatever blade knife into the Holocaust Museum.

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