Don't ring me

It was reiterated again today why I don't buy expensive rings. I lose them. Most of the time it is my own stupidity. If (heaven forbid) I ever were to get engaged, I would probably tell my fiance to purchase me a sucker ring from a candy machine or make one for me out of twine, because chances are, I would lose that one, too.

Here are some examples of rings I have lost over the years:

Summer 2001: I'm on my way back from three weeks in Europe, standing in the Detroit airport, washing my hands at the restroom sink. I took off my blue ring I bought in Munich and discovered I no longer have my blue ring from Munich when I arrived in....Green Bay.

May 2005: I am picking up my sister and bro-in-law at the Green Bay airport (maybe there is a theme here?), and as I am putting a piece of luggage in the trunk, my fat silver ring slips off my ring finger and goes somewhere in the bottom of never land of my trunk. Haven't really attempted to look for that.

July 2006: I decide to "shake out" my Eddie Bauer bag after countless trips to the beach, and I decide to do this on my balcony, which overlooks some holed grid in the ground. I'm shaking and shaking and I hear a CLLLINNNGGGGG! Oops. It's my cool twirly ring in one of the side pockets I had been looking for for weeks. It's gone.

Today: I was at a meeting in Appleton, playing with my $5 ring I bought in Texas. I notice at some point during the meeting, I no longer have my $5 ring from Texas. Hmmm, I must've stuck it in my purse. When I get back from the meeting and use the restroom, I hear that familiar "cling" in, you guessed it, the bottom of the porcelain bowl. I must've stuck it in my short pocket during the meeting, and now it fell out. As much as I love the $5 ring I bought in Texas, as many compliments as I get on it, I don't love it enough to fish it out. Bye bye $5 ring from Texas.

I know there are more I have lost, but I can't remember exactly how those happened. I should learn my lesson and stop buying rings altogether, but I don't. And if I ever do get married, I might have to keep it permanently attached.