I was originally going to just make this a post in the BS thread in the breakroom, or resurrect a random Vic Classic thread and tack it on there, but then I thought that this deserved a thread of it's own, an honorable record to be kept for perpetuity.
My Vic Classic broke* this morning. at 11:46 AM
Lots of things break, I break multis and knifes and other tools all the time, I break sunnies, I break tables, I break cars and bikes. All it really imposes is something somewhere on the expense/inconvenience scale and we move on.
This particular item, is one of the oldest things I own in my house (not the oldest thing, but the thing I have owned the longest) (The only contender I can think of is a few lego sets)
It was given to me as gift (probably a birthday?) near or near enough to 20 years ago (I don't recall the exact year). It has been all around the world with me, on all sorts of adventures.
For years I bore a scar on my finger from when this particular knife folded on me (I was but a wee lad, and clumsy in the ways of physics, I was trying to use the blade to punch a hole in a paper mache balloon. The result was a hilarious amount of blood, and a valuable lesson.)
It is not particularly onerous to replace, but for two decades of service - I salute you
*For you morbid pricks who would poke the dead - It sheared across the thin bit of the scissors on the arm that goes into the body of the knife. A close inspection shows a tiny spot of rust in the metal. Evidently it was enough to create a weak/stress point, and the force of cutting my fingernails was much for the new and (not) improved structure.