Close the Bathroom Door!

And now, another installment on the perennial topic, "Close the Bathroom Door!"

During my shave routine this morning, as I stepped with my left foot to reach for a towel, I stepped onto the cat.

The cat yowled.

I lifted my left foot to release the cat, who dashed leftward for the door.

Having lifted my left foot, I lost my balance, and fell...leftward.

My fall launched my weight against the partially-open bathroom door, slamming that door closed...onto the cat, who was running through it.

The cat yowled.

I did gymnastics in the air, attempting to remove my weight from the door.

I fell to the floor.

As luck would have it, I did _not_ have an open razor in my hand during all this.

I'm fine.

Cat's fine.

Close the bathroom door!

I'm so happy to hear about the lack of slashes, I was waiting for a nasty punchline, glad there was none!

I not only close but lock it. When I was fourteen I was shaving and right in the middle of a pass on the chin my mother opens the door and yells hurry you're late for school! Needless to say I was very late since the now missing chunk of my chin took 20 min to stop bleeding...peeled that sucker like an onion! I also wear pants too...dangly bits and blades don't mix folks.

Looks like you had an interesting morning.
Talk about drama:rofl2:

That would have been a great video!

I do close the bathroom door and shave sans cat, but my wife has been known to come in through the door like a storm trooper which has caused some blood letting to be sure.

No cats or kids but the boss and dog now know better than to startle me while shaving. Just takes one episode to learn the value of closing and locking the bathroom door while shaving. Just glad your incident was as cut free as mine was.

Bob

I am just the opposite.

I leave the door WIDE OPEN.

Kids are older, no pets....

Nothing to do with the fact that we all like to go by closed doors and POUND on them to startle the person in there. :rofl2:

So door is open so I do not get startled and slice off my head. :tameshigiri:

I always shave with the door locked, I don't like surprises while holding a blade to my neck. I'm good enough at slicing myself, don't need another reason to add to the scars. ;)

Po' kitty. Off topic but cats get themselves into the worst places sometimes. I saw one jump onto a woodstove once . He got off quickly. ;)

Maybe clear the rooom first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ8jFbIjtTU

I bet that cat stays out of the bathroom when your in there from now on :<0)

You know there might be a reason why cats have 9 lives after reading this thread.

Bob

Chevhead, in my family of origin, a favorite game was to jump out an BOO! one another when in a dark hallway or in a room alone.

As a straight razor shaver, I'm really glad I haven't passed that game on to my son!

PMSL
I wanna see the hidden video LOL

One of my many rules for a happy marriage, after untold failed ones...

Don't share a bathroom. This one arose after my ex had a habit of leaving the toothpaste in the shower with the cap off. Yup, she brushed her teeth in the shower. Now, you would think that after finding the d@$m toothpaste tube on the floor of the shower with bubbles coming out of it would just lead to a rule of not sharing tubes of toothpaste but you would be wrong. That would only lead to up to four d@&m tubes of bubbly toothpaste on the floor of the shower. Now obviously I was a completely unreasonable jerk for expecting my toothpaste to remained capped and shampoo--free, but that was just me being me. Now I have my stuff in my bathroom and my awesome new wife, of nearly fifteen years, has a huge amount of potentially annoying crap in her own bathroom where I have no need of being annoyed. I shave with minimal interruption in MY bathroom with MY stuff, which includes a perfectly capped tube of toothpaste.

You shave with toothpaste? Eww . . .

Seriously, though, my boy (cat) Chester loves nothing better in this world than to share bathroom space with me. Does not matter WHAT I am doing, if I am in the bathroom, he HAS to be there too. If I decide to soak in the tub, he relaxes on the floor next to it, leaving cat hair all over the bath mat, naturally. It is his thing . . . which is fine if I shave with my DE, but my Straight shaves are now accompanied by him serenading me from the other side of the bathroom door, letting me know of his displeasure at not being allowed to partake in the fun.

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Originally Posted by Utopian

One of my many rules for a happy marriage, after untold failed ones...

Don't share a bathroom. This one arose after my ex had a habit of leaving the toothpaste in the shower with the cap off. Yup, she brushed her teeth in the shower. Now, you would think that after finding the d@$m toothpaste tube on the floor of the shower with bubbles coming out of it would just lead to a rule of not sharing tubes of toothpaste but you would be wrong. That would only lead to up to four d@&m tubes of bubbly toothpaste on the floor of the shower. Now obviously I was a completely unreasonable jerk for expecting my toothpaste to remained capped and shampoo--free, but that was just me being me. Now I have my stuff in my bathroom and my awesome new wife, of nearly fifteen years, has a huge amount of potentially annoying crap in her own bathroom where I have no need of being annoyed. I shave with minimal interruption in MY bathroom with MY stuff, which includes a perfectly capped tube of toothpaste.

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Agreed - never share a bathroom if you can help it.

I think you've uncovered a phenomena, my wife too seems to have a problem with putting lids, caps, anything back on objects that require this function. When I, or the kids, or her invariably spill something, whether it's the jar of pickles that she's neglected to properly screw the lid back on, and just placed it on top, and it spills everywhere, or a bottle of some expensive liquid she has that ends up on it side, with it's expensive cream or perfume dribbling out, I just shake my head the same every time and explain to her, "That's why you get .70 cents to my dollar, kitten, you can't put the lids back on things."

When I wake up, usually the bruising settles within an hour or so....:gaah:

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Originally Posted by tiddle

I not only close but lock it. When I was fourteen I was shaving and right in the middle of a pass on the chin my mother opens the door and yells hurry you're late for school! Needless to say I was very late since the now missing chunk of my chin took 20 min to stop bleeding...peeled that sucker like an onion! I also wear pants too...dangly bits and blades don't mix folks.

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Haha! Great story!

You grew up shaving with a straight? Or was that a DE accident?

And why do you have not filmed this?;)

Shave the cat to teach it a lesson.

Yes and i always close the door and lock it.

Roger

I think its safer to shut and lock the door. You never know who or what may barge in while you are around the ole neck area.

And some hang their strops from the door knobs.:shrug:

I personally keep it open. Although when I shave it's usually in the mid morning and people are still sleeping and the animals are outside. Plus that way it takes yelling, banging on the door, surprise out of the equation. Usually my awareness is already pretty well alerted when I have a straight razor to my throat. Although I can see how keeping it shut and locking it could work great too. Maybe just for fun put a "Do not disturb, straight razor shaving" on the door.

I usually shave at night, when my daughter is already asleep and my wife is halfway there, so there's no problem leaving the door open. even when I shave in the morning I don't bother with closing it. My daughter (3.5yo) is fascinated by the concept of shaving, and it's easier to let her watch and ask questions than keep her out. The cat is only in the yard, and when it comes to bypads ,with the door open I can hear better if someone is approaching. That been said, I try not to let being startled translate into unplanned motion. In too many things I do ( reservist as a marksman and a combat medic, EMT volunteer and first responder, gun owner, IPSC competitor etc) bad things happen if you let loud noises affect your fingers...

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Originally Posted by Utopian

One of my many rules for a happy marriage, after untold failed ones...

Don't share a bathroom. This one arose after my ex had a habit of leaving the toothpaste in the shower with the cap off. Yup, she brushed her teeth in the shower. Now, you would think that after finding the d@$m toothpaste tube on the floor of the shower with bubbles coming out of it would just lead to a rule of not sharing tubes of toothpaste but you would be wrong. That would only lead to up to four d@&m tubes of bubbly toothpaste on the floor of the shower. Now obviously I was a completely unreasonable jerk for expecting my toothpaste to remained capped and shampoo--free, but that was just me being me. Now I have my stuff in my bathroom and my awesome new wife, of nearly fifteen years, has a huge amount of potentially annoying crap in her own bathroom where I have no need of being annoyed. I shave with minimal interruption in MY bathroom with MY stuff, which includes a perfectly capped tube of toothpaste.

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Now I know where you got your SRP handle.