Originally Posted by
Henrib10
I love the reactions I get from people but for different reasons.
I work at and assisted living facility and I come into contact with people my age, people my parents age, and then the residents.
People my age (20) look at me like I'm some sort of crazy awesome shaving god because I can shave "the hard, dangerous way."
When I tell the 40-50 years old workers, most of them are a bit surprised, but then they start remembering stories about how when they were younger they'd watch their fathers shave. Also, I found out that more than a few of them had the strop used on their behinds as much as it was used on a razor,lol.
The best reactions, however, come from the residents themselves. Most of them were born somewhere between 1910-1940. When they hear about my straight shaving, they remember back all those years to their first straight shave and learning from their fathers. Even though we're separated by almost 70 or 80 years, it's something that I have in common with them, a kind of bond shared by real men through time. The residents can stop for second and think back to a time when they were young and things were a lot more simple than they are today.