Weirdest Shave Story I've Heard

[Renato1]

We had my friend and his wife over for dinner last night, and the conversation went to shaving problems with both electric and wet shaving.

Then he told me about about a guy who would regularly DE shave on the train he used to catch.
He would pull out a shave stick, rub it all over his face, and shave - with no water!

Anyhow, I've never heard of anything like it. My friend, who's never used a shave stick, asked me if that was how shave sticks were meant to be used.
Regards,
Renato

 

[smalltank]

Sounds painful to shave like that...I had a conversation with a barber who never used anything but water and a razor..but with no water..good luck!

 

[Judge Dredd]

I once saw a woman on the tram take her shoes and socks off and reveal what had to have been the worst pair of feet I've ever seen (I have a thing for well-kept women's feet, but that's probably for another website entirely...).

Anyway, said woman then produced a pair of nail clippers and proceeded to clip away at her disgusting toenails as the tram proceeded down Collins Street.

Clipped nails flew pretty much all over the tram and were left where they lay

Amazingly, nobody had the courage to confront her and try to upsell her to a Merkur corn razor

I've seen some fairly disgusting things on Melbourne trains before, but this tram incident scarred me for life and now I drive or walk.

 

[ricardo9505]

yes its doable long as the stick in question has tallow, like arko. the slickness is enough with the skins natural moisture to provide a decent shave.
against the grain?? good luck. with and across, ok

 

[Renato1]

I once saw a woman on the tram take her shoes and socks off and reveal what had to have been the worst pair of feet I've ever seen (I have a thing for well-kept women's feet, but that's probably for another website entirely...).

Anyway, said woman then produced a pair of nail clippers and proceeded to clip away at her disgusting toenails as the tram proceeded down Collins Street.

Clipped nails flew pretty much all over the tram and were left where they lay

Amazingly, nobody had the courage to confront her and try to upsell her to a Merkur corn razor

I've seen some fairly disgusting things on Melbourne trains before, but this tram incident scarred me for life and now I drive or walk.

Eeeeeek!
Unbelievable. Glad I never saw anything like that.
Regards,
Renato

 

[Renato1]

yes its doable long as the stick in question has tallow, like arko. the slickness is enough with the skins natural moisture to provide a decent shave.
against the grain?? good luck. with and across, ok

Interesting, thanks.
Tallow sticks weren't and still aren't readily available in Australia unless one gets them from the internet. I wonder if he was using tallow?
Regards,
Renato

 

[Renato1]

Sounds painful to shave like that...I had a conversation with a barber who never used anything but water and a razor..but with no water..good luck!

Decades ago, I used to be able to shave with hot water and a razor. But I can't now.
Cheers,
Renato

 

[Graybeard57]

yes its doable long as the stick in question has tallow, like arko. the slickness is enough with the skins natural moisture to provide a decent shave.

It may be doable, but what kind of man shaves on public transportation?

 

[johnh]

I once saw a woman on the tram take her shoes and socks off and reveal what had to have been the worst pair of feet I've ever seen (I have a thing for well-kept women's feet, but that's probably for another website entirely...).

Anyway, said woman then produced a pair of nail clippers and proceeded to clip away at her disgusting toenails as the tram proceeded down Collins Street.

Clipped nails flew pretty much all over the tram and were left where they lay

Amazingly, nobody had the courage to confront her and try to upsell her to a Merkur corn razor

I've seen some fairly disgusting things on Melbourne trains before, but this tram incident scarred me for life and now I drive or walk.

Seen some horrors on the trains too.

 

[superbleu]

yuck. And I thought the guy on the bus that clips his fingernails was bad.

 

[Krato]

That is just disgusting. Makes me cringe.

 

[Judge Dredd]

yuck. And I thought the guy on the bus that clips his fingernails was bad.

Either they're related, or there's some rule about clipping nails on public transport that I never heard of.

Now that I think about it, I seem to see a lot of motorists picking their noses when stopped at the lights. It's like they think their windows are opaque. What's with that???

Seems there's a common theme of combining bodily maintenance and transport.

 

[intotheforge]

I once saw a woman pee in a seat on the sky train that takes you from the airport to the car rental location.

 

[tfinch]

Some of these had me laughing hard. Sort of glad the only significant time I've spent on trains was in Tokyo, where people don't even talk on public transportation let alone get up to any personal grooming or urinating LOL

I used to work with an old guy that shaved in his car in the parking lot with a L-type injector - no water or soap. That's one of those things that makes you cringe just to see, but somehow he got a good shave and never nicked himself.

 

[retturn2blades]

A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do.

 

[Renato1]

I used to work with an old guy that shaved in his car in the parking lot with a L-type injector - no water or soap. That's one of those things that makes you cringe just to see, but somehow he got a good shave and never nicked himself.

He could probably give us some tips.
Cheers,
Renato

 

[Deltaboy]

Discusting all the way ! Painful too.

 

[Renato1]

A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do.

Had he used an electric razor on a train - so that his bristles were collected - that would kind of have been acceptable.
Regards,
Renato

 

[JDTTO]

I did not know chuck norris travelled by train.

 

[kentclark]

Chuck Norris IS the train.