Arch Enemy #5 – The People Who Made the Bic “Twin Select Silky Touch Disposable Razors for Women”

The other day, I couldn’t find my razor. I’d gone home for Easter, and I’d packed in a plastic bag, and when I got back here, I couldn’t find the plastic bag anywhere (though I found it today) because it blended in with all of the other plastic bags laying around the house (which I cleaned up today).

Anyway, it was a problem that I couldn’t find my razor because I was getting ready to go to a wedding, and I needed to shave, and I was running late, and I didn’t have time to look for my razor. So, I looked through my sister’s stuff (she was in Menard), and I found a package of disposable plastic razors for women. So I used that.

I didn’t have to shave much. I recently had a haircut, so the back of my neck wasn’t very bad. And now that I have a full beard, I only have to shave the lower part of my neck in the front, and it had only been a day or two since I had shaved that.

I didn’t matter though. That stupid little pink plastic razor just wouldn’t do it! It basically took one stroke per whisker. If I wanted to shave one square inch of my neck, it would take, quite literally, twenty five strokes or so to clear the space off.

The thing I particularly couldn’t understand is that most of this razor wasn’t razor. If you looked at the head of the razor, more space was taken up by a lotioned (or something) cushion than by the tiny, tiny weak blade. If you didn’t hold the razor at just the right angle, you were just rubbing this soft pad on your neck.

I went through two of these razors to shave half of my neck.

They just don’t make women’s disposable razors like they used to.