I have always failed to understand the affinity of men towards after shave lotions. May be because ever since they are introduced to the world of "Men" an after shave lotion becomes their best friend. Or may be because they watched their fathers use a lotion day after day and waited for the time when they can start using it. What ever the reason I don't get it when they can't limit the usage to what its very name suggests. The concept of replacing an "after shave lotion" to an antiseptic is something that still baffles me to an extent that it sometimes drives me insane.
When I was in primary school every time I came back home with a bruise or a wound, my father would pull out the gleaming white bottle of "Old Spice" after shave lotion and rub it all over me. I hated that smell and hated the concept using it for my bruises. And to top it all the burning sensation the damn thing causes is indeed very painful.
My heart used to pound out of fear when I used to watch my father take out his old spice from the highest level of the closet.My father being the tallest person in the house , in fact the tallest I had known before I met Hari made sure that his stuff was at the top most level of the closet, never knew the concept behind it, but guess he made sure we keep ours hands off his stuff. Well, years after years after shave lotion in my house was replaced to the use of an antiseptic cream. Well what can I say.
Fifteen years later I am now married. Recently I cut my finger in the kitchen and Lo behold what do I see again.. yes of course "After shave Lotion". Damn... man what was the affiliation between it and I. Why do my wounds and it go hand in hand .. is it me or is it the men who are part of my life. Only this time it looked a bit different it is now in a clear bottle and is now colored green. The brand changed from "Old Spice" to "Kenneth Cole", yet fulfilled its duty of an antiseptic cream. My anger knew no limits , no way is that thing getting on my cut. But situation was again the same, I was wounded and couldn't fight back. Hari succeeded in applying it on my wound. He looked so happy and contented , even told me a story of how once his razor cut had gone so bad just cos he didn't the lotion. Dood .. back off that was a razor cut , not all cuts are razor cuts. Anyway I can go on and on this..I don't know if all men are like this or just the men I know are.
When I was in primary school every time I came back home with a bruise or a wound, my father would pull out the gleaming white bottle of "Old Spice" after shave lotion and rub it all over me. I hated that smell and hated the concept using it for my bruises. And to top it all the burning sensation the damn thing causes is indeed very painful.
My heart used to pound out of fear when I used to watch my father take out his old spice from the highest level of the closet.My father being the tallest person in the house , in fact the tallest I had known before I met Hari made sure that his stuff was at the top most level of the closet, never knew the concept behind it, but guess he made sure we keep ours hands off his stuff. Well, years after years after shave lotion in my house was replaced to the use of an antiseptic cream. Well what can I say.
Fifteen years later I am now married. Recently I cut my finger in the kitchen and Lo behold what do I see again.. yes of course "After shave Lotion". Damn... man what was the affiliation between it and I. Why do my wounds and it go hand in hand .. is it me or is it the men who are part of my life. Only this time it looked a bit different it is now in a clear bottle and is now colored green. The brand changed from "Old Spice" to "Kenneth Cole", yet fulfilled its duty of an antiseptic cream. My anger knew no limits , no way is that thing getting on my cut. But situation was again the same, I was wounded and couldn't fight back. Hari succeeded in applying it on my wound. He looked so happy and contented , even told me a story of how once his razor cut had gone so bad just cos he didn't the lotion. Dood .. back off that was a razor cut , not all cuts are razor cuts. Anyway I can go on and on this..I don't know if all men are like this or just the men I know are.
3 comments:
Hi Madhavi,
Good to go through your real life experiences. Happened to see this on Priya's (Ranjith) scraps today.
Adding some insight into your intrigue: "...I don't know if all men are like this are just the men I know are..."
All Sensible men are and will be like that.
Atleast as long as something else with a different name (to keep some ladies happy) gets invented but ofcourse serving the same purpose as before!
Hey Madhavi.. happened to have a look at your blog as you are a part of Analyst's group.
First of all, to clarify with your doubt, its not only with the men you met with so far, ofcourse everybody would have faced this situation. The reason being, the content in the after shave lotion (whether it is Old Spice or kennith coleman or whatever it is) is to prevent septics and to prevent it from bacterial infection through that wound... And after seeing such wounds or cuts, one can not rush to the hospital or even their mind wont work to take the antiseptic cream which will forget where they have kept in the house, thats why their hand imdly rushes to after shave lotion...
Cheers - Venkat.
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