My girlfriend stayed over for the weekend, and after she left, I noticed a strange amber-colored glass stick lying among the blankets. It was smooth, narrow, and had rounded ends, almost like something from an old-fashioned beauty kit. I had absolutely no idea what it was, and for some reason I felt too embarrassed to text her and ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My imagination immediately started making things more complicated than they needed to be. Was it some kind of cosmetic applicator? A massage tool? Something medical? The unusual shape certainly didn’t help. Eventually, curiosity won, and I started looking for similar vintage glass objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The answer was surprisingly ordinary: it was a glass drink stirrer, also called a swizzle or stir stick<\/strong>. Vintage examples were made from glass and often featured small rounded or ball-shaped ends. Similar mid-century glass stir sticks were designed for stirring cocktails and other drinks served in tall glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That explained the shape perfectly. The long body reaches comfortably into a drinking glass, while the smooth rounded ends make it easy to stir without sharp edges. Decorative glass versions came in different colors and designs, so an amber-colored example could easily look mysterious when found completely out of context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So after all that worrying, there was nothing embarrassing about it whatsoever. My girlfriend had simply left behind a reusable glass drink stirrer<\/strong>. What looked like a mysterious personal item turned out to be an ordinary piece of barware\u2014and I was very glad I figured that out before asking her an awkward question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My girlfriend stayed over for the weekend, and after she left, I noticed a strange amber-colored glass stick lying among the blankets. It was smooth, narrow, and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12888,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12887\/revisions\/12888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}