For once, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has made a rule that will make it easer for some of us to fly. It has announced that after April 25, it’s OK to carry a small pocketknife on U.S. airplanes.

Over the past decade, I bet I’ve donated more than a dozen pocket knives to our government. Call me a Boy Scout, but I’ve got several items that I carry wherever I go, including a Swiss Army pocket knife and a Photon micro flashlight. Both are on my keychain, they cost around $15 each and I really don’t feel dressed without them. That tiny set of gear weighs almost nothing, but I’ve used the flashlight many times to walk miles out of the woods and the tweezers, knife blade, scissors, fingernail file and toothpick on my classic 2 ¼” Victornox pocket knife are put into service on a daily basis. I often forget to take my knife off my keychain and put it in a checked bag before I get in the security line at the airport … and end up surrendering my pocketknife to a guy in a TSA uniform.