Any year is a good year if you wiser at the beginning :)
A little Jewish(presumably) apologue:
Son asked his father: Father, why is when we start an enterprise, everybody stands for each other, but when we meet a success and growing rich, everybody turns away from each other.
Father said: Look into the window, what do you see?
Son looked and said: People are walking around, birds are singing, kids are playing.
Father said: Now come to the mirror and tell what do you see?
Then son looked and said: Well, I see myself.
Father said: There's your answer. Both window and mirror - just a piece of glass, but add a little silver and you see only yourself.
Merry Christmas everyone!
GnomeZome
An interesting aside in this of the reasons that people have said that mirrors did not reflect vampires in the past but would now is the fact that silver was/is considered to have holy properties and vampires are often considered to be warded off by silver in some cases. Since most mirrors were silver backed or polished metal they would not reflect the image of the vampire.
I like the story it's an interesting one.
Thank you for sharing.
Nekidcoboy
I always wondered why vampire's clothes did not reflect in mirrors. May be because of it's in vampire's possession? Well, in that case it creates funny situation, when the objects being possessed by a vampire also can't reflect in mirrors, like in road traffic, dude changes the line and gets crashed by Cadillac Convertible in the back and a vampire like "dude, what the heck, are you blind?!" and dude is like "well duh, I didn't see you in my mirrors!". Or when you in a vampire's mansion, you look into the mirror and see lawn and woods surrounding the building, lol)))