Can someone explain to me why if I nick myself with a DE, it bleeds for half an hour, but if I nick myself with a straight it stops bleeding in three minutes? Am I nuts or is this true?

I'll admit it - after a year of straight shaving I still manage to nick myself on the ATG pass – not every time but often enough. But the weird thing is, by the time I'm rinsing with cold water and doing my post-shave routine it's done bleeding and I can't even see the nick. I don't use or even have own styptic anymore. In fact what occasions this post is I just got back from some traveling – I use a DE on the road – and I forgot what a pain in the ass the smallest nick from a DE can be – it just keeps weeping. And then you think it's done and a little later you look in the mirror and there are these tiny dried blood flecks.

I remember someone once saying a straight edge is so fine that when you cut yourself the nick closes up more easily. This might make sense if you're Lynn Abrams. It doesn't make sense in my case, because my edges are nowhere near feather-sharp.