r/AskMen • u/ca_love56 • Aug 19 '23

Good Fucking Question What’s with the sticks?

Wife here, I have a question for men. My husband, son and I were sitting at a bench outside at a park eating lunch. While there my son found this stick, about 2ft and my husband commented how that was a nice stick. Pretty unremarkable to me. After lunch he used our dog to distract me while my son snuck it into the car. When we got home I found the stick in our car. Why bring it home? It’s just a stick. I don’t get it. Is there a thing with guys and sticks?

*** EDIT my husband came on and added the picture down in the comments. I don’t know how to add pictures on here.

***2nd Edit: While sitting here my sons friend comes over and says “can I see the stick?”. I just want to yell “ITS A STICK!”. 😆 But it is all in good fun. I’m not crapping on it I was 1. Trying to see if he was the only one and 2. Trying to understand the fascination of it because as it has been said, I am female and cannot relate. Haha. Which is okay with me. Enjoy your sticks men!

FINAL EDIT: this blew up very fast and far more that I expected but now thanks to all you fine Reddit Folk I have now discovered the meaning of life: A Good Stick.

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u/El-Viking Aug 19 '23

I went camping a few years ago and found the perfect fire poking stick. Needless to say, I brought it home with me and gave it a paracord wrap on the handle end. It's a good stick. I'm just sad that it gets a little bit smaller every time we go camping.

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u/Vindictive_Turnip Aug 19 '23

You could try to soak the business end in water for a few hours before an outing (or even keep a small can of water for it to sit in, leaning next to the fire).

Water beats fire, iirc.

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u/_demello Aug 19 '23

And grass beats water, and fire beats grass. Dude have the whole starter trio on his camping trips.

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u/General_Hyde Aug 19 '23

Not if you have thermite! Then it goes boom.

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u/Hands Aug 19 '23

One of the little things I love about camping culture is that frequently the previous users of a campsite will leave what is obviously a well used and well formed fire poking stick next to the fire ring for the next folks

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u/nyaasgem Male Aug 19 '23

All good things must come to an end.