Today I (re)learned a valuable lesson. Don’t force a good shave when you don’t have the time. It seems super obvious but I catch myself every once in a while trying to have a good shave after I get home from work. This is when I shower because I work a dirty job and have kids. Which is why I was trying to get in a good relaxing shave, but I hadn’t really communicated to my better half that I would be doing a triple pass and not be down for a good half hour. Well by the time I started shaving, after all of my pre-shave routine and whatnot, I heard the toddlers being toddlers and my ol’lady getting frustrated so instead of going to my back-up Gillette Tech (which I use for this very reason) I decided to just hurry through my routine with my big *** JR&S spike point, freshly honed and not blunted; which I refuse to do and it cost me. I had learned not to drag that point a long time ago when I suffered a good 2 inch long cat scratch on my right cheek, which is always the easy cheek for me. Well this time instead of dragging it, I straight up stabbed my jaw with it. (I wear glasses and have poor depth perception without them.) I bled about the normal amount I would for a drag point cut so I didn’t worry too much. Swapped over to the Tech though and carried on. Got through my post shave routine which doesn’t involve anything with alcohol or I would have known right then and there not to do what I did next. Which was to proceed in finding and inspecting my little scratch. This little scratch, when my skin was pulled to the side, opened up like a coin purse and immediately started oozing blood. So now I have a liquid bandaid on my face and restructured respect for not only the point of that razor, but the shave itself. Don’t rush it. You’ll end up paying for it.