Thread: Pet Peeves

I don't have any pet peeves either (not even people telling me their pet peeves). It does make me wonder why they think anyone would care though

I have thousands, maybe millions of peeves. everything bugs me my wife says.

shaving specific though...my kids coming in and bugging me when I'm trying to shave. the fact that I don't have more area to shave when I so enjoy it. women not wanting to just kiss me over my super smooth face when they see it. and when my own manliness is almost overwhelming to me (almost).

I too think the description of the gym scene was fantastic. truly I'd prefer to hear it described from in the girls locker room, but this is a good start.

I have a question, do you guys that shave at the gym take your strop with you or you strop it at home first?

Red

Hello, Big Red,

I had considered taking my new Tony Miller travel strop with me to the gym, but I figured it is much easier to strop the razor at home. Also, since I have shaved at the gym after a hard workout five days a week for almost two year now, I have become accustomed to stropping at home.

As a rule, I take a stropped straight, a Feather AC and an Edwin Jagger double edge in my dopp kit. Since I work as a freelance writer and voice narrator, sometimes I receive an unexpected call, or a call with time and place that requires me to get a move on fast. For that reason I must abandon the straight shave for the faster shave with the Feather or the double edge.

Ordinarily, though, the stropped straight and I keep company at the gym.

Regards,

Obie

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

#1 is people who are otherwise wonderful folks but when wrapping a razor or whatever item for shipping they wrap tape around the bubble wrap.

I promise to use rubber bands from now on.



Speaking of the gym, one of my biggest when I was going to the gym regularly was people who would come in, sit down on exercise bike, and pedal so slowly that it was no value at all.

I'm not talking about people working on physical therapy, that's different. I'm talking about people who have nothing wrong with them except being lazy and eating at McDonald's too much, who's idea of a workout is pedaling at one mile per hour.

thanks Obie, that's the only way I could see it working for me.

I just remembered two more huge pet peeves: 1. when Mad Max has other work stacked up in front of stuff I want done and 2. when the materials that look best are most expensive to use.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

If I've got a pet peeve the #1 is people who are otherwise wonderful folks but when wrapping a razor or whatever item for shipping they wrap tape around the bubble wrap.

They do this to an extent that risks harming the item in attempting to get through the tape as well as making something that should be easy difficult.

I use rubber bands and they not only hold the bubble wrap securely but are easy to remove.

Guilty as charged. I receive about as much as I send out, but never thought much about alternatives to the scotch tape because it works so well as a part of the secure packaging. I've never sent or received anything in bubble wrap that was rubber banded instead of taped. Now that you've mentioned it, I'll try it next time.

My pet shaving peeve is in the morning when I really should be shaving, but I read somebody's post on a shaving forum and go into another dimension, writing a reply or response, and then not having enough time to really enjoy the shaving experience.

My two pet peeves are when my father in-law decides to start singing (that's what he call it) karaoke in the middle of my shave (the only place I have to shave is in the kitchen) and when the rest of my in-laws decide it would be a good idea to stand behind the guy with a razor sharp blade to this throat and have a screaming match.
I don't mind the sub par shaves as they allow you to have a greater appreciation of the fantastic shaves.

Originally Posted by Oglethorpe

I guess my only shaving related peeve is the fact that the grain on the right side of my neck goes in such a way that it CANNOT be shaved ATG. Scything XTG does about as well as can be done, but it's still not perfect.

This would probably be mine too except it’s my entire neck (jaw line down). That hair grows in a horizontal direction (I guess). I can’t go against the grain, and while I get a really good shave there, it’s not as good as what I get on my jaw line and above. Oh well, I love my straight too much to dump it for this issue.

My thanks to all you guys who said they have a bit they just can't get smooth.It's nice to know I'm not alone.That would be my chief peeve.I can do ATG, but I find it irksome when I stroke side-ways and its rough.I suppose I'll just have to be satisfied with WTG & ATG smoothness.