Lost my wedding ring
It's been three years since the blessed union and Wednesday night, I lost my wedding ring. It was made of titanium believe it or not and was silver with a golden inner band. I blame the cold weather. Fingers seem to shrink in lower temperatures. I left work to go to dinner and the next thing I knew, no ring.
With my trusty flashlight I searched the parking lot at Bissonnet and Weslayan over and over again. I also scanned my work's parking lot to no avail. The fine folks at Camille's searched for me but didn't come up with anything either. Apparently Randall's doesn't have a lost and found.
I felt really bad. My wife took it pretty well considering.
After talking to various folks about this topic today, I found there are a lot of cases of guys losing their wedding rings. I guess I'm not the only one.
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I, too, lost my ring once.
I was at an Alamo rental car office when I had to go to the bathroom.
Now remember, I was on my Honeymoon.
I finished my business at the urinal when I went to wash my hands.
Apparently soap and water can make the ring on the finger slip off. Well that happened to me and my wedding ring went into the trash can that was built into the wall.
I decided to reach down into the trash and feel around for it. I swear to God that I felt things in there that remind you of the mystery meat served in the cafeteria as a child.
I pulled out the ring, with chives of all things, on the ring. I washed it off.
Now whenever I wash my hands, I place my ring in my right rear pocket so I don't lose the darn thing.
I never blogged this, but I nearly lost my ring in the tub.
Had to do some serious fishing to rescue it... thank goodness for massive, ring-catching hair clogs.
I once took if off before I went to sleep, and it was gone the next morning.
Piper had decided to bat it around the nightstand and it was on the floor. When I picked it up, Piper wanted to play with it. She especially liked to watch it spin on the floor.
I miss that little monster.
I lost two before I finally decided not to wear one anymore.
My wife gives me a hard time about it now and then, but for some reason, no women ever hit on me even though I don't have a ring on. :)
heh, I lost mine on my first anniversary at Galveston beach in the Gulf of Mexico. Talk about bad karma...
My brother lost the first one at a local swimming pool, wasn't in the pool, wasn't in the filter. He lost the second one at a quarry, didn't look for that one. He lost the third one at a swimming hole with a natural water slide (along with his trunks). He lost the fourth while playing on the neighbors 'slip n slide'. He finally gave up and had a wedding ring tatoo'd on his finger. If you don't look really close you'd never know.
You are def. not the first. I remember a few years back my youth minister at church lost his wedding ring while we were painting our classroom. His wife took it well also.
One summer I took my daughter to a local lake for some swimming. After about 3 hours at the lake and a walk over for some pizza I realized that my ring was gone. I searched everywhere. The restaurant employees searched the seating area, bus trays and dishwashing machine. I searched the path, the beach and the lake. I offered a group of kids $50 and they continued to search the water while I looked in the garbage can, along the path to my car and everywhere in between. I borrowed a mask and snorkel from the lifeguards and searched the bottom of the lake in the swimming area. Nothing.
When I got home I posted a lost ad on Craig’s List in the hope that the ring had been found on the trail. I was really heartbroken. I know that a ring is just a symbol, but at the time we were struggling with me being in college and things were pretty tight. We weren't going to be able to replace it with as nice a ring and we are both very sentimental people.
The next day (Friday) I rented a metal detector from a local shop and after some quick instruction went back to the lake. I searched the beach area again and then started searching the lake. The metal-detector wasn’t an underwater type, so I was only able to get the coil (the round bottom part) and the neck wet. I searched for several hours but found nothing. I went back on Saturday, retraced my steps and checked with the lifeguards again. No ring had been turned in. As soon as the evening crowds were gone I searched again with the detector. I had been swimming in a large, but shallow, area. After several more hours of searching I still had nothing to show for my efforts but 27 cents in pennies.
Sunday I went back again for several more hours, but nothing. The metal detector was due back on Monday, so before work I decided on one last try. I got to the lake at about 6:00am, but I had to stop at 7:00 to go to work and then return the metal detector. I set the alarm clock on my cell phone and waded into the lake one last time. An hour later my alarm went off and as it was beeping I made one last wild arc with the detector and got a VERY strong beep. It was time to go, but I stuck my bucket in the sand the one last time, fully expecting another coin or bottle cap when, yes, up came my wedding ring. With no time left on the clock and after 4 days of searching, I had my ring back! Needless to say I was really happy and my wife was overjoyed. My ring has enormous sentimental value, not to mention that it is made of gold.
Afterward, when discussing the lucky find with my wife, we both agreed that our worst fear was that the ring would be found weeks, months or years later. We would never see it again and it would be sold to a pawn shop for its scrap value in gold.
In fact, being sentimentalists, it was going to be very hard for us to even drive by the lake, knowing that the ring was likely in or around it. Later that night, while going to sleep, my wife mentioned the idea of putting some identification on the ring itself, in case it was lost again. But emails aren’t always permanent and phone numbers change as well. She then suggested a website and registration number. And thus, the idea for www.LostMyRing.Com was born. Now, with a simple registration and serial number, you can protect your Engagement, Wedding, Anniversary, Valuable or Sentimental Ring.
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