I don't travel that much anymore, but as recently as 5 years ago I traveled many weeks a year for work. So I have an old travel backpack with a laptop sleeve an

I don't travel that much anymore, but as recently as 5 years ago I traveled many weeks a year for work. So I have an old travel backpack with a laptop sleeve and about a dozen pockets, I've cut off some straps and buckles as they have become frayed and useless but I still use it, mostly in my office, hung on a hook to keep certain items like survival gear, knives and firestarters away from my kids (I work from home and you can see where this is going) We traveled across the U.S. last week for an important family even. At the 11lth hour in a moment of thrift and panic as I realized my 5 children had commandeered my normal carry-on and luggage, I snagged the old travel backpack, dumped its contents on my desk and began packing. 13 hours later as my happy brood gathered at the benches on the other side of the lemmings line I realized something was wrong as the scanner belt kept going back, and forth, and back with the scanner maw right around, I guessed, the location of my ill-fated backpack. 15 minutes later when an elderly TSA agent finally found the 10 inch 1/4 inch thick black coated survival blade[0] in between the padded lining of the laptop sleeve and the back pad (a perfect place for an idiot, paranoid, delusional to hide an implement of murder) I was certain I was in for the full cavity treatment much as my ragged backpack had been. I'm convinced the only reason i was able to check my carryon WITH the knife inside it after being perfunctorily and even gently escorted back to the check in counter is because I myself was so convinced of my innocence and lack of contraband. When asked if I had anything sharp or dangerous in my pack I answered a quick and unabashed "nope" fully convinced of my own lie and maintained this demeanor until 15 seconds before they pulled the knife from thin air - only being persuaded of my deceit after seeing the fully empty bowels of my pack and remembering its former contents. [0]https://www.topsknives.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/650x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/d/w/dw33-11.jpg https://www.topsknives.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/ima...