A Terrible Fright

[Nicolette]

Has anyone every given themselves a fright? Well I did this morning and I swear my stomach was in my mouth. I was about to get in the shower and started taking off my rings (engagement, wedding and eternity) which was a bit of a struggle as my hands are a little swollen from the high heat we are experiencing.

I pulled and then yanked just a little too hard with the rings coming off but flying out of my hands into the hand basin. To top it off we have a push down plug so there is just a hole under it - nothing to catch anything and stop it going down the hole if it was small enough to slip under the height of the plug as you can see....

The wedding band and eternity ring landed in the basin - the engagement ring landed and slid into the gap under the plug hole with only the diamond facing out. I was in a state and was calling out to Anthony but he didn't hear me. :eek:

I carefully used a pair of tweezers to get in behind he diamond and grab part of the band pulling the ring out to safety while images of it sliding down the drain were playing in my mind.

There has been once in the past when cleaning my rings that the engagement ring fell down the drain and that was worse - than heavens for S bends but it did make a bit of a mess. :whistling: I now no longer wash my rings with the plug up (open). Now it seems I can't get ready to take a shower before I push the plug down. :rolleyes:

Nothing like a good fright to get the heart pumping. :nailbiting:

 

[Innordinate]

Your heart needs a good pumping any ways neh?

I used to take my wedding band off when I showered, and leave it by the sink. My wife always gave me crap for it - apparently you're never supposed to take them off. :rolleyes:

I forgot it one time, spent the entire day looking for it, didn't want to tell my wife I lost it, but not only is it my wedding band, it's also my grandfathers ring. At the end of the day my wife casually asks me where it is, noticing I wasn't wearing it. :nailbiting:

She had taken it and put it on our dresser!! :mad: I didn't look there! I thought it went down the drain. I was ready to take the bathroom plumbing apart to find it!! I don't take it off any more if she's around.

 

[ms spock]

You managed well Nicolette,

I don't like those types of situations. They certainly do get the heart pumping.

 

[Nicolette]

Anthony initially didn't want me to sleep with my engagement ring on at night in case I damaged it in my sleep (how I don't know :O_o:)... anyway I had the box beside the bed and would take it off every night and put it on in the morning and the wedding band stayed on as it should.

Turns out from an insurance point of view my ring is not covered if it is not locked up in the safe if not on my finger due to its value. So now I sleep with the ring on but like to take it off before showering so soap etc does not get caught up in the Tiffany setting. I just love my ring.........:inlove:

Nighthawlk gave me a gorgeous trinket box which I now have in the bathroom to put my rings in while I shower instead of leaving by the sink as I have knocked them off onto the floor before forgetting they were there while putting my makeup on. :whistling:

Thing is, I put the lid on to make sure the rings are safe and have, on a couple of occasions, left for work realising my rings were not on - I had forgotten them due to them not being visible. I have turned around and gone home and got them as I would worry all day just in case they were not where I thought they were. :rolleyes:

 

[Nicolette]

Oh, here's a funny one....

Remember when those clip on ear pieces which blue toothed to your mobile were all the rage so you could talk hands free? I am sure they are still around but my car now has bluetooth so I don't need to wear the ear piece as I can access the phone through the car's system. Anyway, all that is irrelevant detail..... Innordinate's comment

I forgot it one time, spent the entire day looking for it,

made me remember the day I spent hours looking for the ear piece as I had put it somewhere and could not find it for the life of me. I needed it in the car so I could answer the phone without breaking the law and it was handy at work as I could just keep typing while talking.

Anyway my son had fun that day as, after I had spent some hours searching for the ear piece and pulling the house apart, he pointed at my ear and said "there it is" :bag:... I had it on the entire time and didn't even realise :oops:. My son was in hysterics and I was so cross that he hadn't told me and just watched to his amusement. :watching:

 

[Nicolette]

She had taken it and put it on our dresser!! :mad: I didn't look there! I thought it went down the drain. I was ready to take the bathroom plumbing apart to find it!! I don't take it off any more if she's around.

Too funny Innordinate - your wife must have been watching you sweat while knowing all along. :smug: I can see why you no longer take your ring off when she is around. It would have been devastating to loose though being your grandfather's ring also. :sour:

 

[ms spock]

:)

I know that it wasn't funny at the time Nicolette, but I am smiling now.

 

[amethist]

Glad you managed to retrieve them Nicolette. :tup:

I very rarely take mine off at all. I always thought it was bad luck to take them off unless absolutely necessary.

 

[blackemerald1]

On a slightly off key note, I took my rings off because my cheating husband forgot his vows along with a lot of other things. But I did manage to get the jewellery I had bought him over the last decade too. I am thinking I will melt them down and have the diamond and other precious stones turned into something completely different and something I can wear.

The dregs of society stole my chain, cross and opal I have worn for almost 20 years. At first I thought I had lost it and trashed the place looking for it, but I remembered then I had gone for a MRI and hid it in the car rather than take it into the hospital. I was really tired when I got home and forgot to grab it and put it back on.That was the night of the home invasion when they did over my car and all the other properties. The opal was given to me by my grandfather and I bought the chain and cross myself.

I do hate losing jewellery, had a number of frights in relation to rings, earrings, keys...I am not careless they just fall off or, I take them off and they fall down cracks, sinks whatever and wherever.

I have also been a complete idiot running around looking for car keys, pre-occupied with missing an appointment, trashing the place again (I am a trasher lol) and then found them in my hand the whole time. Oh goodness me I don't know if I felt better for finding them or worse for being an idiot.

 

[Britt.f7]

So now I sleep with the ring on

I can't sleep with my rings on because my hands swell when I am sleeping and I've actually woken up to them being stuck.

I have a special jewelry drawer on my dresser. It just looks like the wood molding so, unless you know it's there, no one would know it was a drawer. I put it there every night. On the off chance I put my ring somewhere else, I'll go into a panic searching for it. I hate those moments.

I'm very glad you were able to save the ring. That would be a heart breaker!

 

[Britt.f7]

I am thinking I will melt them down and have the diamond and other precious stones turned into something completely different and something I can wear.

My husband bought me a new "wedding" ring set for our anniversary one year. I took the older one to the jeweler to have it reset into a necklace and later into a ring. My mind is always changing and it drives me husband slightly batty. So I think it is an entirely great idea to have it remade into something for yourself!

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I am glad you found your ring. I have to watch mine, sometimes they slip off by themselves, when my hands shrink. Not very often. I have had a few scares though. Very happy for you.