{"id":4011,"date":"2022-07-27T21:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T02:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2022-11-20T06:48:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T12:48:32","slug":"just-an-old-pocketknife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/just-an-old-pocketknife\/","title":{"rendered":"Just an Old Pocketknife…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Old Pocketknife<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A longtime client and friend died last year. He and I only saw each other once a year when he made his annual trip to Arab to file his taxes. But we always spent extra time together talking about old pocketknives, a common interest we shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week my friend\u2019s daughter was in to meet with me and file her father\u2019s estate tax return. I was surprised and humbled when she presented her dad\u2019s old pocketknife to me. It was a knife he carried and had sharpened. Oh, he had a lot of old pocketknives, just like I do, so I know the grandkids will be getting special ones as well (if they want them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Greg
This is special!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of the Best Gifts Ever!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How can I say that an old, worn pocketknife is one of the best gifts ever? Sometimes it is not the monetary value of a gift that is important or special, but what the gift represents. My friend enjoyed fishing and I can imagine that he used this old knife to cut bait and fishing line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My friend\u2019s daughter is my age, so her father was from a different generation than ours. Men from his generation carried pocketknives because they were a tool that they used often. Old pocketknives have been used to fix appliances, repair automobiles, cut chewing gum out of a child\u2019s hair and open Christmas presents. And my friend was just the kind of man that would have done all of those things and more with this old knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Greg<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Greg<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now, I plan to make this my everyday carry pocketknife.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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