I tried a quickie shave tonight with my DE and Lectric shave, starting out following the directions on the bottle. My Scottish genes default to "stingy", and so I may not have used ample enough LS... but then again I didn't wet my face either as you outlined above. The result was a very fast shave, albeit not remarkably close or comfortable. I will have to try it with my face wetted a bit first sometime, see if that improves the experience. Failing that, I'll invest in the cotton balls.
C.S. - DE?
When I was but a wee lad and before I started school I wanted to learn to read more than anything else in the whole wide world. Consequently I was one of the best readers in the whole 2nd grade!:thumbup:
This was when we lived at Bozeman Hot Springs, Montana...
While we were living there an encyclopedia salesman conned his way into showing them to my folks... Along with the encyclopedias there was a set of story books, about 12 IIRC, that started out with really easy stories and progressed over the years to more difficult ones. I devoured the easy stories and went on to the harder ones spelling out the words I didn't know to mom who would tell me how to say it and what it meant.
One story I read I have never forgotten and likely never will, or at least I hope not, it goes like this.....
On one beautiful day in Peru a man from near or on the coast was taking a load of coconuts he had piled high in baskets on both sides of his burro to the market at the town high on the side of the mountain.
He had already walked a good distance so he stopped at the well in the town square of the small village at the bottom of the mountain to refresh himself. While he was getting a drink of the sweet cool well water after seeing to his burro a young boy named Juan came to the well to fill his grandmother's water jugs.
Thinking that Juan may know about how long it would take him to get to the city high on the mountain he asked, "Young man, about how long will it take me to get my burro and her load of coconuts to the city above?"
After seeing how carelessly the man had packed the baskets on his burro Juan told the man, "Senor if you walk slowly you can make it in a little less than two hours and will arrive fresh and in good spirits, but if you hurry it will take until well in the afternoon and you will arrive hot, tired, and frustrated."
Well this angered the man and he thought, "The young boy is mocking me and must think that I am loco or something! Go slowly and I'll get there faster or go fast and it'll take me the better part of the day, what nonsense! I'll show him!!!"
So the man started out going as fast as he could get his burro to move and had to stop frequently to pickup coconuts that had fallen out of his basket's. But no matter how often he had to stop he'd just get that much more frustrated and angry thinking, "I'm still going to show that young boy!" Therefore it took him well into the afternoon to get there and he was hot, tired, and frustrated when he arrived.
After resting a short while and getting refreshed he quickly sold everyone of his coconuts and made a good profit, much better than what he would have made at his own village's square.
On the way back down he took his time and was soon back at the well where he had asked Juan how long it would take him to get to the city high on the mountain and it had taken him a little less than two hours to get back!
After giving his burro fresh water and drinking his own fill of the sweet cool water the man begin reflecting on all of this and suddenly he realized what Juan had meant! Had he of gone slowly he wouldn't have had to stop so often to pick up his fallen coconuts and so he would've gotten there much sooner as well as refreshed as he had when he returned.
The teaching of this story can be applied to many aspects of life, even shaving.
:thumbup:
`
