The Owl Springmaid Mirror Hunt

The search for the elusive owl Springmaid mirror is alive! My friend Joel and I had an unusual near-find but it fizzled out when the dude who owned it became inaccessible for unknown reasons. Okay, just a background – there is a site called guys4men. If you don’t know what this site is about, you can go check it out yourself (uhhh, it’s possibly limited to those who are 18 years old and older).

One dude posted a photo in his profile wearing nothing but his white underwear. Joel was brimming with excitement when he led me to the site and showed me the dude’s photo and I thought to myself, this is just another one of his virtual manhunt finds. I had to squint my eyes to see beyond the dude’s butt and guess what greeted me – a yellow owl springmaid mirror! So we both screamed in excitement.

One of my iconic memories while growing up in the 70s, was our own owl yellow Springmaid mirror. It had the shape of an owl, with a pair of black and white eyes and curly eyelashes. It came in different colors (yellow, pink, orange) and it seemed that every other household owned one.

So Joel strikes a conversation with dude:

J: Hey there, my friend is interested in your owl Springmaid mirror.
D: In exchange for what?
J: How about we meet for coffee to discuss it?

End of conversation.

Some days later (or was it weeks?), Joel checked the site again to see if dude had responded to his coffeee offer. He clicked on dude’s profile but this was already disabled. Waaaah!! There went my owl Springmaid mirror! Hmmm, did Joel’s offer had anything to do with it? Was he scared to part with his Springmaid mirror? Or was it the coffee invite? Because I know that one rule of thumb in gay cruising for those for are already in relationships, is that sex (with other men) is okay but coffee is not, because the latter means conversation and conversation can lead to an emotional attachment. In other words, a real affair – which, in turn, can threaten one’s existing relationship. You may ask, if he was in a relationship, why would he be posting his provocative photos (with an owl Springmaid mirror, no less) in a gay cruising site? Having so many gay friends, I already know that being in a relationship has never been a deterrent to one’s engagement in manhunts, virtual or other.

In any case, there went my potential owl Springmaid mirror find.

If anybody can lead me to one, I will greatly appreciate it, (and he or she doesn’t have to pose in his/her underwear).