Travel Tips for Girls

[akirlu]

If you forget to re-pack your disposable safety razor and only notice this on your last sweep through the hotel room, just toss the razor. Yes, even if it's a lovely, saffron yellow, gel-handled one that you only just started using. Toss it.

Do not, for the love of Mike, decide to grab it and drop it in your purse "for now". The chance of accidentally slicing divots off your finger tips while truffling about for something else goes WAY up, and it is quite alarming how much a small divot out of your ring finger tip can bleed while you wait to get off the train, on the bus, and away to work and the nearest source of bandages. Also, as it turns out, by the time you finally get around to fishing the razor back out of your purse, two weeks later, the various purse-dwelling impedimenta will have so thoroughly buggered up the edges of the razor's blades that you would have more luck shaving your legs with a butter knife anyway.

In the end, you wind up tossing it anyway.

Comments

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Yup, you made me shudder. What a James Nicholl moment.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

The thing about cutting myself unexpectedly like that is that I never seem to actually feel the cut if I don't see it happen. I just notice that Oh Golly, I'm bleeding, and then have to reverse-engineer the event in my own mind.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to find a place that sells the user-friendly do-it-yourself wax. I used that years ago.

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

A compromise solution would be to eject the blade but keep the handle. Or do you mean truly disposable, handle and all?

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

That's usually the sign of a keen edge, which doesn't seem to have been the case this time. I almost never notice that I've nicked my scalp until I see blood.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

This is why I always keep the little plastic covering for the blade(s), and put the whole thing in a baggie.

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

ow ow ow ow ow ow ow
OW.... I have found that out by experience as well. I had the presence of mind to wrap it in a tissue, but....
Damned sharp teacher.
ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I do, alas, mean truly disposable. I am evil and bad for supporting such ecologically unconscious manufactury, but the sad truth is that the Bic Soleil disposable razor multi-packs often go for under $4 at Fred Meyer, which makes them cheaper to buy than just blades for another triple-blade razor, and they normally last next to forever. Besides, they come in pretty colors. Yes, I am a sad little consumer bunny in my heart of hearts. But...pretty colors!

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

It may be that the edge was keen back when I sliced off my fingertip, but Not So Much by the time I tried to shave with it. It was practically a brand new razor when I packed it off to 4th Street. It may also be that the edge is just fine but the blades had been twisted in the razor head so they weren't actually clearing the head of the razor to shave with. Or, the horse may talk.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

If I had time to do all that, I would have just re-packed it. I was, alas, pushing my timing on catching my plane.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting that I have tissues in my purse. Luckily, I remembered in time to use one to staunch the bleeding...

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I keep toiletries in the outside zipped pocket of my suitcase, for just such last minute tossings-in. And if it comes down to that, I usually re-attach the plastic cover over the blade(s) after use anyway, since I'm more likely to fumble around at an unfamiliar sinkside.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yup, well, that's swell if you (1) have soft-sided luggage and (2) shave at the sink, but neither of those conditions apply to me. Razor covers in the shower tend to leap off the too-narrow soap dish and scoot immediately down the drain, and that pretty much takes care of that.

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I suppose conditions are different for you non-glasses wearing types as well as for Gyno-Americans. Anyway, sympathies.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Gee, thanks. And for my next JN moment, I will demonstrate my unerring ability to detect assholes on the internet, and point to them.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

In fact, I do wear glasses, but I can still see well enough to shave without them, which is lucky because it's a bit of a trick getting them up high enough to shave at the sink...

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Ow! I always just leave it in the hotel on purpose.