Thursday, 28 May, 2009

[JonPorobil]

I've got two stories from the this week, but I'd probably better save one for tomorrow (especially because it still has some loose ends).

So. I went swimming at a local lake with some friends of mine on Memorial Day. I dove around a little bit, and surfaced at one point to realize that my wedding ring was no longer on my hand. It fell at some point in the lake, and I dove the mad to find it, but to no avail. Likely it sank into the sand, never to be seen again.

Question of the Day: What's the most valuable/important thing you've ever lost?

[Steve Durand]

I had a similar experience, Jon. I was at the beach doing some training for a triathlon. I was swimming laps parallel to the beach and I saw my wedding ring go flipping off of my finger down to the sand about 12 feet below. I dove down several times trying to find it, to no avail. My wife was sitting on the beach and couldn't figure out what I was doing since I kept going up and down in the same place.

[Billy's Little Trip]

My wife was sitting on the beach and couldn't figure out what I was doing since I kept going up and down in the same place.

She probably just thought the same thing I would have thought....that you were blowing a dolphin.

QOTD: I lose my rationality every time I drink alcohol. But I usually find it again in the morning after a cup of coffee and some sort of pastry.

Jon and Steve, try looking for your lost preciousez in the morning.

[roymond]

I don't think I've ever lost anything very important or valuable. My wife lost our car once, and we collected insurance on it, only to have the police call and say it was four blocks away. My younger son was mad at his older brother, so he threw out his 2000 year old roman coin their uncle had given him.

[HeuristicsInc]

I think the moral of this story is, "Don't wear your wedding ring while swimming." The cold water shrinks your finger, just as hot would expand it.
-bill

[Spud]

shrinkage. hehe.

Anyway, I was fiddling nervously with my wedding ring one day at work (must have been something stressful going on), and I dropped my ring out a second story window. I watched it hit the sidewalk, bounce across a drainage grate, and out into the middle of traffic. I waited until it stopped, memorized the location, then ran out of the office, down then hall, down the stairs, and into the middle of traffic, arms flailing, and grabbed it.

I have lost a car for several days before, Roymond, so I feel for your wife (shut up, blt).

Probably a laptop, really. Maybe my Yamaha Portasound Keyboard. It was probably more valuable than the laptop at the time each was lost.

[bambamoozle]

QOTD: I too lost a ring once, but not my wedding ring. In my case it was a family heirloom ring that my father had given to me on my 21st birthday, it didn't fit me quite right and being a poor college student I didn't take care of that problem but wore it anyway. I don't remember how long I had it but it was less than a year before it slipped off one day and was gone forever.

But for the most important to me personally was the first Christmas with my dad's second wife. That was when I found out that she threw out the box of ornaments that we had used since my brother and I were children. Every single bloody thing we had made when we were kids and hung on the tree for all those years were gone because "I wasn't going to use that crap". I'm getting worked up just telling you about it even though it's been almost 30 years.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I have lost a car for several days before, Roymond, so I feel your wife (shut up, blt).

Whoa whoa whoa.......wHOa! You must really have a distorted impression of my moral outlook in these matters. I can completely understand how you can relate to another person that has experienced a similar devastating situation and why you'd want to feel up that person.

[Spud]

Lose something, blt? Here you go: http://www.forumup.co.uk/smiles.php

[Rabid Garfunkel]

Right now I'll say QOTD: My mobility. Broke my ankle last Saturday, thought it was just a nasty sprain. After unwrapping and unstrapping it after work Wednesday, the foot was... ugly lookin'... to say the least.

Kaiser on Thursday with the doc's & xrays & such, and now I'm flat on my back, or crabbing sideways through the apt. on crutches.

It's a pretty break, sheared the ankle knob cleanly. Really gotta get a a copy of the xrays...

@(nticipating) Spud: Yes... yes I was. Converse low tops are for driving, not walking (or staggering), heh.

p++ will be going MIDI for a while, methinks.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Ouch! That sucks Rabz. I know it's a little late for this, but you probably should have zigged instead of zagged.

[Rabid Garfunkel]

Shoulda walked up the middle of the street, methinks

[Billy's Little Trip]

What were you doing? Spill it, gimp.

[Rabid Garfunkel]

Helped a punk legend's girlfriend move into his place, they threw an alcoholic barbecue, left much later for home, wife passed out, I walked to the bar to shoot some pool...

Tried to walk back home after.

Got lost.

In my own damned 'hood.

Stumble stumble, fall fall.

Rinse, lather, repeat for a good hour (by the phone records), until I got a lock on where I was...

[fluffy]

qotd: I seem to have lost my ability to record music and play piano. Anyone seen it?

[JonPorobil]

No, but mine might be somewhere near yours, so if you find it, let me know where it was.

[Caravan Ray]

Neither of you will have any insurance claim honoured on those losses unless you can actually prove you possessed those things in the first place.

[fluffy]

Well, for me it should be easy, as I've won more fights than you have, and you are clearly an excellent songwriter.

Generic is on his own, though.