Sweeney's shop below the bridge

So I mentioned this in my class blogs but i didnt say all that I wanted to say about this in there. A little bit of this will be close to what i said in there but there will be a lot more detail added to it.


A few weeks ago Josh and Adam had gotten their faces shaved by a man underneath a bridge not to far away from the school.  Thy had complained how much it hurt and that it was one of the worst decisions they have made on this study.  Ever since i hear about Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street and saw the movie, i have wanted to learn how to shave with a straight razor.  When i heard about Adam and Josh getting their faces shaved by someone else, i thought "well that could be interesting, but if they said it hurt i dont really want to do it".  One day after we were returning from one of our adventures out and about, we got on the subject of shaving.  Since it had been about 3 weeks since i had last shaved, i decided it was about time i did.  Adam and Josh tried to convince me to go get my face shaved by the man under the bridge saying it was just one of those experiences that you just had to do.  Are you crazy?  If its going to hurt, why would i do it?  Why would i pay money for someone to shave off the top layer of my skin as Josh had put it.  Well, thats where they got me.  I had said that if they paid for it, i would get my face shaved by the man under the bridge.  They jumped on that as quickly as i said it, and jokes about paying the man more money for shaving my face ensued.


That following Monday we took bikes over to the bridge where the man works and i sat myself down.  I was a little nervous looking at them with huge smiles on their faces and chuckling a little bit at what i was about to experience.  The man started lathering my face with who knows what and then started to slap his blade on a leather belt to sharpen it.  It was now time for him to start the shave, and with the first scratch, my eyes flared with pain. Both Adam and Josh laughed when they saw my eyes bulge which made me start to laugh.  The man yelled at me to stop smiling and chuckling because he could not shave my face while doing so and he didnt want to cut me.  Well that didnt really help much.  He had cut me a few time before he was done, but a few nicks is better than a full on Sweeney Todd death slice that i was afraid of the entire time he was shaving my neck.  The shave was painful i will give them that, but it wasnt as bad as they had explained to me (i will admit that the very beginning and upper lip were painful enough to make me tear a little). They had said that their skin felt so raw afterwards, and i didnt really feel anything until the next day.  When the man had finished shaving my face, he wanted to be thorough and was making sure he got every hair. While he was doing this he went up on my forehead.  I had no idea what he was doing up there but i was thinking to myself "Why is he trying to cut hair on my forehead? There's nothing there and if he gets close to my hair line, he better back off, I dont need any hair to be removed from there!"


I will agree with them, it was a very painful experience and I'm glad that they were able convince me to do it.  I guess the next best thing to learning how to use a straight razor is having someone shave you using one.  Im not sure if this is what it feels like to shave yourself with one, but one thing i do know is if it is how it feels, im not sure i want to learn how now.