For whatever reason, the alarm didn't go off one morning this week. It's happened before on rare occasions. Usually because of some technical issue like I changed the time for the alarm to go off while the alarm indicator light was on, or something like that. Only, this was a morning when I had to go into the office, something I don't usually do on that particular day.

My morning started this way: My wife woke me up, saying "Didn't you have to go in this morning." Raising my head from the pillow, I looked at the clock and immediately realized I had less than 30 minutes to catch the train. I usually get up an hour and a half before the train departure, plenty of time to leisurely shower, shave, dress, check email, and hear the news and weather.

This morning I would get to do little of that routine.

Flying out of bed and into the bathroom, I was in and out of the shower in less than 3 minutes, when I had to face how am I going to lather and shave?

And, there it was, facing me - I had to go back to canned foam - goo.

I also knew, I’ve been making great progress with shaving with my SR, but, I would never have the time to make lather nor would I be able to take the appropriate time for using my SR. Lather was one thing, but then I thought, do I also go back to a disposable?

No - anything but that!

So I shaved with my DE Safety, and my SR sat idle and unused.

Shaved, I quickly dressed and made it out the door with just enough time to make an extremely fast walk of the 1 mile from my front door to the train station.