THE Lowly Peon

razors 
21 August 2009, 3:28pm

i've been traveling a lot lately. in fact, in the last two months or so, there has only been one time where i've spent ten days in a single city. i also don't really care for shaving. i've mentioned it before. this is especially true when i travel. if i generally shave a painful two times a week, why would i bother taking up precious space in my bags to carry a razor?

worse yet, something happened a few years ago that got everyone real paranoid about flying. as a result, if i shave when i travel, i essentially need to wait an extra hour in the airport (razors = checked bags = waiting forever). so what's the point? thus, the last few weeks, when i went to beijing or shanghai or hong kong, i didn't shave. i shaved when i got home and that was it. however, for the week or so leading up to my trip home, that turned into about a week and a half, and i looked dirty. i actually considered keeping it.

instead, i walked over to walgreens to buy a razor. of course, just like the big shots from the weener company who got together with the big shots from the bun company, razors only come in packs of three. and they don't have cheap simple razors anymore. the cheapest thing i could buy was a three pack of mach 3s. which just sound fancy. since i've been in houston, i've shaved maybe three times. maybe four. i'm not sure.

fast forward to this morning. i finished packing, and everything fit perfectly. i mean perfectly. sometimes i wonder if i should be a professional traveler. there wasn't an available inch, yet nothing was too tight. it was beautiful. then i went into my bathroom and noticed something disturbing:

_there was only one razor_.

so i looked around for a while. it has to be somewhere. right? bathroom? no. other bathroom? no. garbage? no. kitchen? no. ummm... under my bed? no. dresser! no. then it dawned on me. i must have packed it somewhere. but i really don't want to undo my bags. and i really don't want to check them.

so what do i do? do i trust myself that i didn't pack them and that the cleaning lady stole them? or do i unpack everything only to find i probably threw it out last week and then repack? do i hope they're just gone and go to the airport and risk getting arrested because people are so paranoid i'll hijack a plane using a pair of mach 3s?

sigh.