Thread: I don't even know where to begin..

Hervin,
I salute you for the fantastic attitude you have shown through all the adversity of losing your gear and the strength of the relationship that you obviously have with your wife.
I have only been married (third time) since November and, I know that my wife would feel bad if anything like that should happen to us. I hope I would handle it as philosophically, too.
Things have a way of working out.
Cheers,
Geoff

You have to judge the ways you could react by their results. Blowing up at her wouldn't have put any razors back together, and neither would laying violent hands on the slag glass. You don't know a marriage ceremony has really taken, if you accidentally make it all the way through on good times. It takes weathering a storm or two. Many would be superfluous, though.

Oh man, dude, that made me hurt like a kick to the jewels. I'm SOOOO sorry to hear that. You are definitely a much better man than I because I would have blown like Vesuvius. Here's hoping that you are blessed with a windfall of new stuff. And I must say, I hope the true impact of what happened settles in with your wife. My wife would have reacted the same way...well, at least until she saw my eyes glow red

Best of luck!!

Kudo's again on how you handled the situation. I've read mention on SRP several times of the "gentleman" quality that's upheld here. If you ask me, the true display of a gentleman is how he handles a situation like this, and I think you exemplified the ideal here.

@Roy, loved the video. Very true. I love my nothing box.

Peace,

Congratulations on keeping to the standard set by a gentleman. I've read somewhere that life is not about what happens to us, it is about our choices to things over which we have no control. The Force be with you.

Your goose is cooked. The next time you screw anything up (which is her call, by the way), she's going to expect the full treatment - new shoes, new jewelry, new car, whatever she wants.

enjoy your replacement razors while you can

Well it's another day gone by and my wife came home with a brand new tweezerman... Which was the only badger hair that I had.. Hehehe I just gave her a hug and thanked her... To respond to the "Gentleman" statements, you guys are definitely right.. I think a lot of people forget that even the gruffest of guys (believe me after pushing boot-campers and being out to seas year after year I am DEFINITEly salty) should still keep composure even if something bad happens to your stuff.. People will always make mistakes... some more than others.. some because they aren't thinking, others because they just didn't know.. Caledonian and anyone who has said it's not worth it, is right though.. no material thing is worth losing what's truly precious to us... Yea they are gone, but like everything else they are impermanent anyway... Us as collectors, users, RAD junkies spend a decent amount of our time trying to curb the affects of time on these blades, and if not for our TLC they would rust and fade anyway a lot quicker... The more I think about it, I started this thread more as a way to vent... but it turns out that it points out a few qualities that this community has... Camaraderie: Though none of you know me you touched base with the situation.. everyone gave advice, made suggestions, and even offered replacements.. that by far is awesome.. Another is rookie or not.. Mistakes happen.. and although Razors are our obsession they are nothing like the crown jewels in our lives.. (For us who are married with kids... well that just kinda speaks for it self.. ) Then there is being gentlemen.. (gentlewomen fall in this too.. you guys have your tempers too)... when you think of straight razor shaving, pipe smoking.. and such you think of guys sitting around with BBS chins and just talking.. (sadly I am too eccentric to fall into that category but I am like the old guy with his underwear on the outside of his pants that everyone just tolerates ahahahahah)... Either way... it's civility.. So I hope anyone who reads this definitely gets it.. This place is a great community.. and family is always first even if they or you mess up..

I wrote about my son and my coffee cup.. I had thrown away the pieces... didn't even think twice about it, but it was a cup from my first ship (which has been decommissioned for a while) and drank coffee in it since. But watching my son so excited over his accomplishment was worth more to me.. For fathers day my wife had hunted down that exact cup, and the ones made for the ship with shellback on it was impossible to find but she did it.... had I gotten upset.. she probably would have never even thought about it.. I did however have my sons name added to the cup under mine.. he uses it to this day...

Pushing boot-campers.. When I was doing that job I worked with two others. That was the point in my life that I learned there are three types of people.. Ones who are respected and trusted and when they are crossed the people who do it feel bad for doing it... second kind: Those who are feared and well who knows if they are trusted they are just too scary to even try... and when they are crossed most accept the consequences because they hate that person.. then there are the buddies.. they are liked, mostly not trusted and ran over any chance they get.. I watched one of my coworkers go nuts because he could never get control of the recruits, and the other could not get the recruits do anything other than the minimum.. I learned a lot from that job (even though I was being paid to be a bully)... but I had the highest rated compartment that session.... Also received some metals and what not too.. but the best part is people I pushed through hunt me down on facebook and tell me what a difference I made for them.. So it brings me to the quote in my signature.. the Sum of our experiences.. that was told to me in bootcamp.. because before the navy I was the buddy.. That Master Chief was so respected that when he walked in everyone paid attention.. when he talked all would listen.. if he gave advice.. well everyone took it.. I wanted that attitude.. Couldn't figure out what to call it, but I do now.. Gentleman is't some uppity snob holding doors for women, and nose far up in the air they would drown.. it's being the Respected and trusted person, with high integrity, is their own person, and does NOT have to try and impress anyone..

Seems I babbled.. i hope all of this made sense..

Thank you to everyone who posted and PMed me.. and to anyone who read this and went "Holy Cow"...