Thread: AHH! What the hell are you Doing!!

So today at work I opened my newest package during break. Inside was two new razors, both wedges, my first ones ever. Then Mike walks in (yes that is his real name) and says something I cant recall, and proceeded to snatch up the larger razor without my consent. He then flipped it open like a knife, it had very loose scales so this was very dangerous....

Then the best part was when he used the blade to push cut into the table!! What the!!! Its a razor not a hatchet. I responded to this with a quick " AHH! What the hell are you doing!" and grabbed the razor away before he did any more damage. He then had the nerve to say "wow that is sharp it nicked the table real easy" Screw the table what about nicking my god damn new blade!!! Hes so lucky it was a full wedge that I didn't fix up yet, it was pretty much unharmed...if it was a fresh honed hollow ground it would have broke or chipped and I would have cut him with it real good. I don't care if I get fired it would be worth it.

What kind of person does that? No one seems to have any respect for other peoples property or have common sense these days...

Has anything like this happened to you guys? Id like to hear your stories of rampant stupidity and such...

Sorry, this was very upsetting, I hope my use of smilies portrays what it was like...rants over...

Bummer, TJ! I don't even know what I would have done. I've almost told antique store owners that carelessly open a razor before they hand it to me to be careful or DON'T touch it like that, and it's not even my razor! That guy sounds like the epitome of a thoughtless bonehead.

Here's something I've thought of that you can all appreciate that's in a way kinda, somewhat, ok maybe only a little related:

The movies portray straight edges as dangerous weapons (Chelsea smiles, etc). I firmly believe after shaving with, caring for and honing my own razors that we straight razor devotees would never use a straight razor as a weapon. They're such amazing delicate instruments, I cringe at the thought of compromising a well honed razor edge it such a way. I mean why ruin a perfectly good razor?

My point on how that's related with your encounter is we all know how to treat such delicate instruments with respect and extreme care. Most people don't.

You have my sympathy working with a guy like that.

Chris L

Thank you Chris,

Unfortunately most of the people I work with are boneheads...I also agree with you on the weapon thing, it would only be a last resort thing for me, I love my razors too much to ruin them, but I do like to hone tho. I would have shown him how to open and hold it and how chopping wood is bad for it if he asked, but he grabbed it so I didn't have a chance. I'm just thankful it was a stout full wedge.

It sucks when others don't stop and think about what they are doing, especially when its not theirs to touch. Its too bad that a lot of people are that way. Glad to hear no damage occured.

Bob

The amazing part to me is when some thoughtless bastard comes along and mishandles (place name of object here), you say to the so and so "What the hell are you doing?" , and they act like you are the one with the problem!

Yep, happens often...

When people come to my house, and aproach my razor mug, or see a razor laying around, I have to warn them "Do not touch it", because everytime asomeone grabs a razor, they lack knowledge and respect for it, and start handling like it's butter knife. I have to remove them from eyesight...

Nenad

Originally Posted by Chrisl

Bummer, TJ! I don't even know what I would have done. I've almost told antique store owners that carelessly open a razor before they hand it to me to be careful or DON'T touch it like that, and it's not even my razor! That guy sounds like the epitome of a thoughtless bonehead.

Here's something I've thought of that you can all appreciate that's in a way kinda, somewhat, ok maybe only a little related:

The movies portray straight edges as dangerous weapons (Chelsea smiles, etc). I firmly believe after shaving with, caring for and honing my own razors that we straight razor devotees would never use a straight razor as a weapon. They're such amazing delicate instruments, I cringe at the thought of compromising a well honed razor edge it such a way. I mean why ruin a perfectly good razor?

My point on how that's related with your encounter is we all know how to treat such delicate instruments with respect and extreme care. Most people don't.

You have my sympathy working with a guy like that.

Chris L

I have a pakistani blade that I can not get to take an acceptable shaving edge, but it's still sharp in the scheme of sharp things out there. I would use this as a weapon if concerned for my safety. Considering I live in quite a rough neighborhood, I have even been known to carry it with me if I run down to the car or laundry room at a late hour. I keep a loaded rifle behind my bedroom door and have a couple of sharp knives around the house so when I'm inside, I'd never consider even using this letter opener of a blade or any other razor as a weapon in that case.

On the topic of boneheads, I have experienced what you're talking about. No one has gone as far as to make a chop at the table, but even when they've had my permission and an earnest "be careful - for your sake and that of my razor," I've had people manipulate the edge a bit too agressively. I've recently converted one of them to straights and ordered him a starter strop and razor. I refused to give it to him until he came over to learn the basics, including how to properly handle and care for it... Halfway through that night, he looked at me and said he couldn't believe how carefree he'd been with my razors the couple of times he'd seen them before. Thought you guys might appreciate this anecdote...


Adam

Had a buddy run his thumb pad over one of my razors. Now had he done it along the sharp edge it would have been dandy. But unfortunately he decided to run it across the edge as if you had stropped your razor at a 90 degree angle =/

This one is a bit my own fault... but...

Once I was showing a friend a hollow ground, smiling Sheffield razor. He asked to look at it, which I agreed to, telling him to be VERY careful with it, that it was very sharp and very delicate. So... to investigate the smile on the balde, he rests the blade, sharp side down on my counter top! Needless to say, I started shaving with it again after a good honing....

Oh, and a little off topic, but a friend of mine once went to adjust the colour on my TV, which is a 1971 console television (a real one, not one of the cheap TV in a cabinet ones). The colour dial no longer works, and I told them three times not to touch it, that it would throw the colour off and I'd take hours to get it back... So he tried it anyway, feeling that the colours weren't sharp enough. He touches it and immediately blue turns to green and so on. When I got all pissy, he stood up for himself with, "Buy a new @@@@ing TV".

Now I'll admit my TV sucks a bit, but still, I mean, it costs me nothing to keep and it's like, part of the family. :P

Oh, and yeah, it was actually a couples days of fiddling with the colour for twenty of so minutes several times a day before blue was blue once more.

I train personal protection dogs. Part of the training is learning to do basic things under distraction, This is a part of seeing eye and assistance training too, things likeike sitting in a crowd or remaining lying down while there is vehicualr traffic around. So often in order to get these distractions I'll seek out crowds to train in. It seems like every time i'm out working a dog someone asks me if they can pet it, then they get offended or assume he is dangerous if I tell them "no hes in training".

I actually had an idiot call the police on me with a dangerous dog complaint because I wouldn't allow him to pet my dog fortunatly the cop and I had a fun talk at that guys expense and everyting was fine.