I have a hard soap contained in a mug sitting on my desk. It has been there so long I've forgotten who made it. I occasionally work with it but it never returns a decent lather, so it is basically an air freshener I ponder now and then.
This evening I'm sitting in my home office when the teenage daughter walks in to "borrow a twenty or so." She spies the mug and says "May I give it a try?" Ten minutes later she brings it back with enough lather to shave a woolly mammoth.
"How did you do that!?"
"Well dad, it was really easy. Sprinkle it with one and five-eighths ounce of water, hold a damp but not soaked brush at about 60 degrees, move it back and forth making X's across the soap a couple dozen times, swirl it a couple dozen times, back and forth X's nine times, and then swirl nine times. Then comes the hard part. You need about 8 more drops of water and then make about five dozen five point stars as fast as you can. Geez dad, I'm surprised you didn't discover this earlier. You must be getting old."
"Do they have to be five point stars? And I'm not getting old."
"Oh dad! Don't be silly. Of course they do. Oh my! Is that another gray hair? Gotta go. Bye."
Later I tell the wife the mystery of the air freshener/soap has been solved. She looks at me with her 'Oh you big dumb helpless animal' facial expression and says, "When you opened the medicine cabinet tonight, didn't you notice the bottle of Kiss My Face had the directions towards you rather than the label, as you always store it?"
My prankster daughter of whom I am quite proud: a chip off the block.
Hmmm, five point stars? I may give that a shot. As for the daughter, next time she wants to borrow some shaving cream we might discover if lavender scented yogurt can be lathered.
Have a great shave folks.
This evening I'm sitting in my home office when the teenage daughter walks in to "borrow a twenty or so." She spies the mug and says "May I give it a try?" Ten minutes later she brings it back with enough lather to shave a woolly mammoth.
"How did you do that!?"
"Well dad, it was really easy. Sprinkle it with one and five-eighths ounce of water, hold a damp but not soaked brush at about 60 degrees, move it back and forth making X's across the soap a couple dozen times, swirl it a couple dozen times, back and forth X's nine times, and then swirl nine times. Then comes the hard part. You need about 8 more drops of water and then make about five dozen five point stars as fast as you can. Geez dad, I'm surprised you didn't discover this earlier. You must be getting old."
"Do they have to be five point stars? And I'm not getting old."
"Oh dad! Don't be silly. Of course they do. Oh my! Is that another gray hair? Gotta go. Bye."
Later I tell the wife the mystery of the air freshener/soap has been solved. She looks at me with her 'Oh you big dumb helpless animal' facial expression and says, "When you opened the medicine cabinet tonight, didn't you notice the bottle of Kiss My Face had the directions towards you rather than the label, as you always store it?"
My prankster daughter of whom I am quite proud: a chip off the block.
Hmmm, five point stars? I may give that a shot. As for the daughter, next time she wants to borrow some shaving cream we might discover if lavender scented yogurt can be lathered.
Have a great shave folks.
