Thread: What are your friends/familys reaction to you shaving w/straight rzrs

Originally Posted by Crackers

So a work mate said that he wanted me to give him a Christmas shave yesterday, this morning I had my soaps, brush, razors, bowl, towels etc laid out on his desk and recorded his reaction with this thread in mind.

There were the three guys who are holding down the fort having a good old chat over a shave, no nicks and his side burns are straight.

Best thing is he is Samoan and the chief of his village, I have shaven royalty...

People at the office know I know how to sharpen a knife, so one of them asked me to sharpen his super dinky little schrade. He was very pleased with the job and exclaimed, "gosh, this is so sharp you could shave with it!!!"

"Uh....no, not really" I says. We talk about it and I mention straights. He looks at me calm and level and says, "well....if you're not going to pull your razor out of your boot during a bar fight, you might as well shave with it!"

My mom knows I will do what I like, my dad think I'm lost my mind, brother think I am cool and wants to learn to shave with SR too, my friend won't believe me or want to me shave their beard too and my wife is telling me to go for it. I wouldn't care less what other people think because this is the best way to me shave beard.

Everyone thinks I belong in a str8 jacket...................

Originally Posted by athair

Spouse thinks I'm a bit nuts, but realizes it's a hobby as much as anything. Mother-in-law thinks it's neat because she hasn't seen a strop in forever.

My Mother in Law takes this as one more piece of evidence that white people are crazy.

Many family members, including the wife, give me this pity look- like a man who just lost his marbles. My wife further thinks I belong to the 1800s because I also got into fountain pens, antique watches, pipe smoking, piano and riding horses. She's now more than anything annoyed because I'm developing more eccentricities and hobbies.

I don't have many friends. But the 3-4 I do, believe it or not one after the other, now got their badgers and DEs and contemplating a SR WIN lol

Unfortunately some think I'm weird and mock me. Some doesn't care.

My boss thinks it's interesting, my wife buys me aftershaves and soap bowls, and my dad got me a very nice 3" English bridle leather strop. Everybody else thinks it's weird.

Haven't really paid attention, nor "sprung" it on too many strangers. My friends and family know to never be surprised by my oddities/pursuits.

Have one pal who DE shaves and another considering SR's, as he inherited two and multi-bladers give him bumps. I'm trying to make sure he "eases" into it.

Originally Posted by Crackers

So a work mate said that he wanted me to give him a Christmas shave yesterday, this morning I had my soaps, brush, razors, bowl, towels etc laid out on his desk and recorded his reaction with this thread in mind.

There were the three guys who are holding down the fort having a good old chat over a shave, no nicks and his side burns are straight.

Best thing is he is Samoan and the chief of his village, I have shaven royalty...

You consider your man parts royalty, or did you mean to say that you can lay claim to having now shaved royalty?


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

You consider your man parts royalty, or did you mean to say that you can lay claim to having now shaved royalty?


Mick

Brilliant Mick, LMAO... There were a few of those calls flying around. Thank god everything stayed where it belonged.