That's what you call a bad day......... :)
From : http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/default.htm
James Ng was set to propose to his fiancée on a hot-air balloon ride when the symbol of their love fell 500 feet into the woods.
Ng, 26, pastor of New Mercies Community Church, had hidden the 1-carat diamond ring in a box in his camera case. As they floated along on Oct. 29, the case slipped from his hands.
"I just watched it tumble, and it hit a tree and spun around, and the stuff fluttered out of it," Ng recalls. "And I just put my head down on the side of the balloon, and I was just — I just couldn't believe I'd just done that.
"My first thought was don't tell her ... and buy another ring — which it took me forever to afford the one I had," Ng says. But Sonya Bostic, 27, caught on. "When he reacted the way he did, that's when I knew," she says. "Wait a second! My ring's in there!"
Ng dropped to one knee and proposed anyway. She said yes.
"I got up and I was like, 'What river did we just pass?' " Ng says. "I started trying to get a feel for where we were."
Back on the ground, he Googled maps, plotted flight paths and marked off search grids.
For seven days, as Ng and a friend searched, Bostic wore a twist tie on her finger, then a $9 Wal-Mart ring.
Then, as Ng thrashed through brush and brambles with a machete — the camera bag!
"We ran up to it ... and we're like, 'Yes!' " Ng recalls gleefully.
The only thing still in the bag was the ring box. Ng and Bostic say God gave them a miracle.
"I just kept looking at it," Bostic says. "It was so beautiful. It was perfect. It was everything that I wanted. And that we found it, and I never thought in a million years we'd find it, that was truly God. It really was."
Bridget Pericolo of Parsippany, N.J., can relate. She set her wedding ring in a disposable cup for safekeeping Monday. Then her husband, Angelo, disposed of it in the trash as he left for work.
Before anyone noticed, that trash was headed for the Parsippany transfer station.
Bridget called Angelo, and Angelo called the dump. Supervisor Michael Brotons and crew Edgar Lopez and Joseph McGee dug through 10 tons of trash, and they found the ring.
There's one thing lost-and-then-found wedding rings seem to have in common.
As Bridget Pericolo said when she recovered the ring she has worn for 55 years, "I think it was a miracle."
reminds me of the time one of our family friends won the 1kg gold prize at the Dubai Shopping Festival years ago.
that man is the biggest miser i have heard of in my life.in our culture,when a girl comes of age,it is customary to buy her gold.and it so happened that his daughter had come of age and he just HAD to buy her something.after much ado, he bought her a little something for just AED.50/- just for the heck of it.and he got a raffle coupon that he gave his daughter.he wasn't really thinking when he did that.the girl filled out her name in the coupon and put it in the raffle box.
on the day of the draw,as luck would have it,they won and he started getting congratulatory messages from people.initially thinking that they were all trying to pull a fast one on him,he ignored them.the fact sunk in when the officials from the jewellery called up and asked him to come over with the other portion of the coupon to collect his 1kg gold bar.
now comes the glitch.he didn't know where he'd kept the coupon!the whole family turned the house upside down searching for it and after 3 hours of searching,they found it all crumpled up in a polythene shopping bag they'd kept aside with hordes of other such bags that they usually used to throw out kitchen waste!!! :-o
all's well that ends well....but i'm sure that guy never took a raffle draw lightly after that incident :-D
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
Mr. & Mrs. TB, you guys make me smile ;)
Typical - that's my Christmas present gone then :)
'Up there for thinking....down there for dancing.'
Ho Ho.... Oh Nooooooooooo! I dropped the ring out of my sleigh
I'll try it next time, Alexa. Thank you for the tip.
"Real Love has no Enemies"
Exactly heero to each his own :)
From what you said, Alexa, it seems to be important to listen and make effort. That's a bad combination.
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Why are you guys always talking about things you'll never understand?
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It's the feeling...just like what you said. ;o)
To each his own...again. :-(
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Maybe I should add this: I've always been crazy and it kept me from going insane.
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heero my love life is going great without your valued but unwelcome advice, Thank you.
Oh, Alexa, I went through each state of mind and being. Sometimes I don't know what I just am.
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Boston under-promise and over-deliver..
Thanks for the tip, sandee.
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Now I get you. you should try experiencing it for some time, sandeep.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
That's a good tactic, sandee. You're always late, but when you come in time she jumps for joy. I'll have to remember that.
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All about the expectations one has Alexa, My girlfriend goes crazy with delight when I show up on time..
Oh, boy, that's complicated, Alexa.
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Baby wontcha wear my ring around your neck? (Elvis Presley)
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And what da hell is this 'personal detail-business' crap that you're talking about?
And just to remind you that I still admire the guy's effort to propose with the old method. Shit just happens. :-)
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
I don't know why you are using obscenities first of all.
Secondly I never said don't wear a ring or it doesn't feel nice to wear a ring, I just said I can't understand why people take forever to select a ring and then get it set in their mind that it's the perfect ring when they are basically the same.. It's the feeling that should count right?
Last time I saw him he wore one through his nose, heero.
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I don't think my life's personal details are any of your business heero but just to satiate your curious mind, yes I have.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
It's a mathematical problem, sandee. The Squaring of the Circle is impossible and the ring itself can only be expressed with an irrational number, and that's why you have every right to dislike it.
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I may not be married somwerNdmiddle but I have gone ahead with a couple of dramatic proposals in my life complete with ring and a lot many other things. Both times I just went to the nearest jeweller's shop and told the sales girl there, give me the ring you will want to wear in this budget and I bought the one she showed me, just like that.
I never understood why people waste so much time for a ring and I never will..
sandeep, plain "symbol" as it may seem, you'll understand when you're the one holding the ring :)
It's even nicer when the man chooses it himself, rather than letting the woman choose it. I love my ring, because hubby picked it (nothing to do with me dropping hints about what type of ring I wanted) ;-)
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Touché
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That's what I am saying Brit, It's just a symbol so any ring should do. Why do they make such a big deal about the perfect ring..
snessy
When a woman is really in love, she forgets her best friends anyway ;)
Its symbolism.. It says to the outside world "Hands off". It also says "you're mine" ...
Man puts ring on woman's finger for life.
Woman puts ring in man's nose for life.
Sandeep, this is why you're still on the hunt for a woman, diamonds are a girl's best friend ;-)
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I just don't understand why some people give so much importance to a ring, I mean it's a ring, they all look alike to me anyway.
a nice couple can be :-)
The guy was white, not that it makes a difference either way. He was on TV a few days ago being interviewed, but he did look a few sandwiches short of a picnic :-)
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"We ran up to it ... and we're like, 'Yes!' " Ng recalls gleefully.
I would have been a lot more expressive I can assure you.. I hope Ms Bostic now sticks like glue to her man :O)
I would have gone and bought another ring.