- Excuse me, ma’am, do you have a knife in your purse?
- Oh, yeah...but it’s just a little one.

It’s actually a two-inch folding pen knife, which I acquired when it came inside a Christmas cracker, of all things. I just dropped it into my bag back then, and I must have taken it on five airplanes by now - I forgot I even had it, and no one at the TSA ever reminded me. But apparently I will not be taking it into the cute little post office in the Federal Building in downtown Seattle, no sirree.