I have several canes now, since having back surgery. I'm not particularly old, and I live in the same town I grew up in, so I get lots of "grandpa" and "Mehtuselah" jokes at the kids football and baseball games. Fashion aside, it is a beautiful way to walk around with a lethal self defense weapon for all the world to see. I just wish the sword canes werent more illegal to carry than a sub-machine gun.