Have you ever carried a pocket knife?

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When I was a kid, I usually carried a pocket knife around with me. My friends and I would play a game called mumbley-peg, which involved doing a sequence of "tricks" with our knives, each of which ended with the knife stuck in the ground. As I was researching "mumbley-peg," mostly to get the spelling right, I learned that it was a popular game among school children in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, but has since waned in popularity with the increase in concern about child safety. I also hadn't remembered that it's mentioned in either Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. We played it in the 1970s and never thought much about its "history." Anyway, as an adult, I have sometimes carried a pocket knife, then lost it, then bought another one years later. So it's been a part of my "pattern" SOME of the time. Right now, I have one that I bought a couple of years ago, and it really does come in handy now and then. I use it to cut off dead branches from my garden plants, to dig waterlogged particle board out of the speakers I refinish, and to cut plastic model airplane parts out neatly when I make model airplanes with my kid clients. Have you ever carried a pocket knife? What do, or did, you mostly use it for? The picture is of me using my current $10 pocket knife to reduce a corner bulge in the speakers I'm restoring.