With the grain is true but completely and utterly dry! Now put that in your pipe and smoke it LOL. Why would you want the hair to lay down? You want it up to meet the razor! Silly bear.... Oh though I must admit if I had to shave YOU it might take me 6 minutes. But I'd hog tie you and roll you at the end
But I couldn't plant my boot on your butt (aseptic field and all that jazz LOL)
But that's still not the trick to keep you from getting cut...... and we used to whip those razors right over big jim and the twins FAST! LOL The men couldn't watch that part of the prep LOL. You'd see 'em squirm so we would pick up the speed to attempt to lower their squeem* factor.
*Squeem = Ratio of squirming to squealing.