KIM: YOU MAKE ME LAUGH
Yes, how could you get to be 55 and fail to realize that your serrated knife could slice your "fleshy" tomatoes and cucumbers "thin to perfection"? 


Try this: how could I get to be 65 and use as my primary knife a single-edge serrated giveaway from Shell Oil, or some such gas station, from nearly 30 years ago? 


Slicing fleshy fruits and vegetables in the morning     
-- once again, impressive. You make it sound so fun and yummy and even intimate -- "my" fruits and vegetables. Maybe when you picked careers, you were on your way down the alphabetical list to Advertising but got stuck at Accounting by mistake?