A couple days ago my wedding ring started to irritate my finger.
This happens on and off with changes in my weight. Its like a warning sign that I am eating too many donuts. When this happens I start messing with it. I take it off my ring finger and put it on my pinky. Then I feel like it’s gonna fall off and I put it back on my ring finger. This continues on and on. Yesterday I was fidgeting with it all day. Taking it on and off on and off. Last night I was on the PC and reached to mess with it and it was gone. I started to look around and could not find it. I started to panic. I went around the house a few times looking and could not find it anywhere. I had gone to the convenience store about one half hour earlier so I thought it may have fell off my pinky there.
I went to the store and had the clerk help me look all over the floor for it. Nothing! I was really starting to panic then. It’s not an expensive ring. I think we maybe paid $90 for both at Service Merchandise two hundred and fifty-one years ago. For some reason I was getting really upset though. I guess cause I had it soooo long and felt stupid and old for losing it. I took a flashlight and starting looking everywhere. Trash can at the convenience store (yuck) where I had thrown some crap on my way out. I took the trash can from our kitchen which had really stinky food in it outside and went through it. I was gagging the whole time. No good! I looked in the thrash in the bathroom. I looked in the sink and debated on taking off the trap even though I know it won't fit down there. I went through our cars with the flash light. Searched the drive way and walk. Then I remembered I had the cats out in the back yard for a while and searched all over it with the flash light. Nothing! I went through the house about 10 more times. My wife made a few trips around the house looking too. She could tell I was really getting upset. She was not that upset, but I was. Finally I had to calm myself down and went back to the PC to make a mothers day card. I just could not get started cause I was still really annoyed with myself. Ya, I was losing it over the stupid thing. I decided to play some 2142 cause now I am so cranked up there is no way I am gonna be able to go to sleep. Its pretty late so I put on my headset to keep the noise down and reach for the speaker volume to turn off the speakers. Sometimes I forget that and put on my head phones, but the speakers are still on the whole time. Any way as I reach for the speaker knob…
I lost mine for 3 days one time. I was in Thailand in the AF and had put it in my pocket. You can't wear rings on the flightline or in the maintenance shops. I figured it would show up because I lose it quite often for short periods, but after 3 days I was worried. I couldn't picture myself coming home and telling my wife that "oh, by the way -- I lost my wedding ring". I tore my room apart and found it under a chair cushion. It must have slipped out of my fatigue pockets.
Glad you found it. Your wife will remind you about this for years to come, but at least it won't the the wedding ring you lost forever story.
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my wife's hasn't fit her ring finger since she wa pregnant... she got it resized when she was pregnant and ever since it's been too big to fit on her ring finger so she wears it on her index or middle finger with her engagement ring and anniversary band on her ring finger which annoys me sometimes. If I get really mad in an argument with her I sometimes take mine off and throw it at her... then fight to get it back.
I shouldn't wear mine but I do religiously... about 7 years ago I was climbing down from a building and figured I'd jump down the last 3 rungs... well the ring just happened to fit perfectly in the grooves of the ladder tread I abrubtly found out and when I finally hit the ground, I thought I lost my ring, but it was just hiding, under my knuckle skin! so I went to the hospital and company policy is a drug test so I told the nurse that she'd have to hold something... at least the cup because I was a little shorthanded and bleeding pretty good. Then the doctor says he's got to cut it off and I tell him he's got a better chance of seeing God. do he talked me into it because he said they could fix it at the jewelers... so 21 stitches later, one nerve operation which evidently the "good" neurosurgeon must have been playing golf that day, a trip to the jewelers to find out it was covered when I bought the rings... cool. (when they fixed it though I lost all the white gold inlay which still bothers me) so since then wore it all the time, except when I talk to the cute pharmasist at CVS. only been shocked twice on it and only caught it one other time on a ladder.. thank god for scar tissue. oh yeah, and it's only jewelry I wear.
I had a little incident just about the same as bigj and have hardly ever worn my wedding ring since. I guess after you spend about 10 minutes hanging about 10 feet of the ground by your ring kinda changes things. The only jewelry I wear now is my 3 earrings and my necklace, oh and almost forgot my Honoring an American Hero Serving in the Army National Guard bracelet. I do wear my wedding ring when we go out for a nice night out on the town and thats about it.
When your a mechanic and welder you learn to live with out the jewelry.
You must be young and stupid before you can be old and wise.
Same situation happened to my father which is why he no longer wears his ring. He was getting off his machine and when he jumped off it got hung up on something and left him hanging for a bit. The ring needs to be fixed but he doesnt wanna get it fixed if hes not going to wear it anyways.
Ya, but I feel like a complete old person. I put it right there in front of me probably not 5 minutes before I could not find and went competely nuts trying to find it
[JiF][AARP]Grimp wrote:Ya, but I feel like a complete old person. I put it right there in front of me probably not 5 minutes before I could not find and went competely nuts trying to find it
Remember that this is the same memory that lets you forget lots of bad things also. It's not all bad.
Actually I kind of enjoy it. What? We have 5 grandkids? Man, that is great news!
It also points out the validity of going to play video games whenever you have a serious problem in your life. If you had just decided to avoid the lost ring issue by losing yourself in video games for a while you would have found your ring earlier.
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Your wife will remind you about this for years to come, but at least it won't the the wedding ring you lost forever story.
