Florida Teen Goes on Date With Boy She 'Barely' Knows, Brings Kitchen Knife

A daughter who revealed in a video she went armed with a knife to a date's house has gone viral on TikTok, and she told Newsweek she and her mother can't stop laughing about it.

Isabella Gorelik, 18, shared the clip to her TikTok (@bella_gorelik) on June 15, and it has already been viewed over 850,000 times. Users were left in stitches by the mother-daughter duo.

And TikTok users aren't the only ones finding it hilarious, as Gorelik told Newsweek she and her mother, Danielle, "keep watching the post and laughing at ourselves to the point of crying."

In the video, Gorelik's mother explains her daughter "brought a kitchen knife" when meeting a man at his house for a date. And not only that, but when the man commented "I can't believe you came over to my house. You barely know me," she told him simply: "Don't worry, I brought a kitchen knife."

Naturally, the family then joked they would give Gorelik a kitchen knife when she went off to college: "One for cooking, and one for bringing on dates."

Gorelik, from Florida, who also posts to her Instagram @isabellagorelik, explained she knew the man she was going on a date with when they were children, and after getting back in touch they were meeting "to catch up after about eight years."

"I tell my mom pretty much everything, even more than she should know, and she knew I was going out to meet this guy," she told Newsweek. "My mom was concerned about me meeting him in his house and told me horror stories as she typically does on the daily.

"So I looked at her dead in the eyes and threw a kitchen knife in my purse as I was walking out the door."

In Florida, the open carrying of almost every knife is legal outside of restricted areas such as schools, courthouses and prisons. However it is illegal to conceal or carry any knife longer than four inches, according to Legal Survival Guide.

Self-defense weapons such as pepper spray are also legal to buy, carry and use without a permit, so long as the container holds no more than two ounces, and that it is used only for self-defense.

Upon arriving at her date's house, Gorelik immediately told him she had a knife on her, and told Newsweek he "just chuckled … super casual like every girl he hangs with brings a kitchen knife." But her mother "couldn't believe I showed him my secret weapon."

Worrying he "could have used it against you," Gorelik reminded her "we were in his kitchen and he had his own cutlery!"

Gorelik is leaving for college next week, and said she was reminded of the story when discussing safety measures with her mother, deciding then to share it on TikTok.

And it went massively viral, with hundreds of women sharing their own stories, including one who admitted she "used to carry a marshmallow roasting stick which was sharp in my purse."

"Mom cackling telling the story is so me," one said, another laughing: "I LOVE that she told HIM 'don't worry.'"

"Sooo second date or nah? This is the best," another laughed.

And one joked: "Knife manufacturers about to release 'First Date' edition steel."

While violence and the threat to women's safety is a serious matter, Gorelik told Newsweek: "We laugh at the comments. And we keep saying that it is so great that so many people relate.

"The fact people comment that they are laughing as much as we are at the video proves that laughter is contagious and it's great to spread happiness."

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