Thread: Gather round for a story...

So this evening I'm at my astronomy lab and me and my partner are working away. We find ourselves with nothing to do other than wait for our camera to finish taking pictures. I take advantage of the time to look at razors on eBay. Well, my partner sees what I'm looking at and says "Oooo, straight razors, those are always fun". I nod and continue looking while he goes and talks with another one of the students in the room. He comes back 5 minutes later to find that I'm still looking at razors and says to me "Dude, what is your interest with straight razors?" I reply that I use them and he tells me "Well...so do I"

I excitedly said, "REALLY!!!" and at that exact second, my spirits rose and my heart leaped a little for here I thought that I had actually found someone to indulge me with conversation about the passion that we all share. But it was not to be. His answer was simply a non-enthusiastic "yeah...". I pressed him a little further:

Me - What kind of razor do you use?
Him - I dunno, I bought it from an antique store...
Me - I just got some new strops, I'm pretty pumped!
Him - yeah? I got a strap with the razor. I just strap (note the improper terminology) it till it shaves...

Someone in the rooms overhears the slightly unusual conversation and asks if straights really give a good shave. My partner shrugs at the question...I half gasp and make an attempt to salvage the reputation of the trusty straight razor by saying "I'm still kind of new to it, but I get pretty good shaves and my face feels a whole lot better than it used to"

Back to the conversation with my partner:

Him - You know what I can't understand? Those sets that have a razor for every day of the week...
Me - Yeah, I don't understand why someone would want seven of the same razor
Him - I can't understand why you'd need more than one...do people really think that their stubble is enough to destroy a razor that you'd need to have more?

And with that, the conversation ended. My enthusiasm was lost on him. I sat there broken-hearted thinking how the first person I've met to have any interest in straights doesn't really have an interest in straights at all.