Lost Rings - Fate Fairies - book version
This entry was posted on 12/26/2011 1:45 AM and is filed under Fate Fairies:Fate Fairies - book version.
Over thirty years of marriage, I am from time to time asked why I am not wearing my ring. Invariably the asking party has never worked blue-collar. I lost my original ring after ten years of marriage. I was working on a landscape maintenance project for my little private business. It was at an old house in Dallas, Texas, the trees were mature, it was the fall of the year, and there were tons of leaves. The weather was dry, the leaves were dirty and dusty. The ring must have slipped off my finger.
"Never again," I concluded.
It was all for nothing. The project and the job sucked. And, I loved that ring. Heide had it made special. It had diagonal grooves on the outside. On the inside she had an inscription placed.
I still think of that ring when I dig around in my garage or storage boxes. I always hope perhaps it will surface in the bottom of some old tool box.
My ring story is rather banal compared to Heide's story. Her ring cost me a fortune at the time. At least I thought it was expensive for a bartender and school bus driver. I suppose nowadays, my humble purchase would be considered small time. Especially, comparing my marriage era of 1981 with the wedding culture during the economic heyday of the mid 1990s and early 2000s.
She never told me there was a problem regarding her ring. It was around the same time I had lost my ring. She gave no indication a woman tragedy had occurred. Apparently her dilemma had been confronting her for some time. I however, never noticed any indiscretions with her ring. Shows how much I pay attention to things. She must have been trying to figure out what to do. Our home insurance would have covered any problem with her ring, but money was not the point; like my ring, her's too had a unique shape and a unique diamond. She even had part of the ring made by a jewelry store she used to work at. It was significant because it was an employer she thought well of - a rare occurrence in the Missery Recession of the 1970s.
One day, I was watching the football game that was on television in the living room. Suddenly, there was a scream from the bathroom. I thought she fell, or cut herself, or god knows what.
When I popped my head in the bathroom door to see what the hell had happened, there she stood, diamond in hand, holding it up to the light.
"I found it! I found it! It was on the damn floor under the sink the whole time!!!" She said.
Then she looked at my incredulous stare.
"Oh, the diamond," she said. "I never told you it had popped off the band a while back..., and it was missing...."
Note: This blog "Fate Fairies" - book version Category is a work in progress. The original vignettes are being edited for book form. Go to the Cooldadiomedia Web site and the Fate Fairies Page for an ordered chronology of the book vignettes (chapters).
