This is why "the truth is rarely pure and never simple."

My skin doesn't usually scar, but four weeks after a major shaving fiasco and I have my first whopper! But I don't like the story. "Lesson learned: guys razors leave your skin softer, but are a lot sharper!" That just makes me feel klutzy.

I thought of embellishing it with...

"One day I happened to be mountain climbing and the guy I was with lost his footing. Like any rational heroine, I grabbed hold of the rope and pulled when I realized that he had not anchored it for ten feet. I acted quickly, body belaying him to prevent the fall. Unfortunately, he whacked the side of the mountain a few times, opening his backpack and hygiene kit which flew down and hit me in the head. I awoke with a concussion, rope burns, and to find that his razor had sliced my shin open. I am lucky to be alive. And he was lucky to have me. And why on earth would he bring a razor mountain climbing?? All of the great mountaineers just grow beards."