Originally Posted by
fatboy57
okay, i actually posted a mini-cover letter slash mission rant, and it disappeared. No sweat, "brevity is the seat of wisdom":
1. 18 months DE shaving.
2. 2 razors: '57 fatboy(sorry to gush, but this razor has 2gthf 0 yrs on me) and most recent (2010)short handle HD from Merkur (my first DE, don't wanna get 2 to dark, just know that this razor knows me and saved me. I'm happy to hear anyone's explanation -short or brief - why a guy who avoided shaving, can pick up a DE razor instead of a -------- fill in the blank and not just be going through the motions.
somehow this post got way to heavy and gloomy, maybe its the hurricane 'er sompin. The take away of my post soon to be forgotten, was that a man who knows what a baby-butt-smooth shave is, and has that barbershops smell that we (i) can faintly remember. That meant it was July 4th, or memorial day, or labor day, ad infinitum - now i look back on my dads and his dads generation, and I'm tellin you- some of the shaving soaps, aftershaves, etc. are a potent thing - a lot of things (savory and otherwise) took place in the barber shop. If you don't think wasington DC doesn't have it's version of the town barbershop - where secrets are better put in the vault, lest collaterall comes a knockin,