Class ring lost in Maine turns up nearly 50 years later in Finland

UPI ^ | Feb. 14, 2020 / 1:58 PM | Ben Hooper

[Cold Heart]

Classmate of mine threw something over the side and watched his ring fly out past it.

My fingers grew larger and I couldn’t wear mine. Sold it for gold content and gave the money to my wife.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

My HS class ring was given to a former GF who never returned it in 1973........................

ditto

[Damifino]

My HS class ring was given to a former GF who never returned it in 1973......

LOL... mine never returned it either... except were still married some 30 years later... Not commenting beyond that :-) ha ha

[Bigg Red]

God bless the man that found it.

[Vermont Lt]

If it isn’t taken off the finger it won’t be lost. That said my daughter and her husband wear rubber wedding bands when they work.

[gcparent]

My dad never wore a wedding ring. Married in 1950. He said if you work with your hands you can lose a finger.

[grey_whiskers]

Why do men take their rings iff to wash their hands? Hubby was always doing that.I take rings off when I go to bed.

I don't believe that came across,*quite* the way you meant...😀

[Vermont Lt]

Yup...you couldn’t wear them in most factories.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Are you saying high school rings migrate?

[Redcitizen]

Too bad it didn’t sprout more wedding rings. :)

[SuperLuminal]

When I graduated from HS (1951), we (my family) were too poor to be able to afford things like class rings...

However, I gave one of my GF's one of my cars (1935 water-injected Ford) and, by the time I returned 3-months later from Paris Island, she had wrecked it...

[Red Badger]

I had a summer job at Krystal hamburgers and saved all my money just to buy it. Then lost it................

[Bikkuri]

Ditto... but my ex-gf had told me she had pawned it while I was in bootcamp ..
>,<

[sgt_lau]

My Wife and I rented a house at the Jersey shore 15yrs ago, and my kids begged me to bring my metal detector to the beach one day. I usually hunt early in the morning to avoid the millions of comments and interruptions.
On one particular day, I found a man’s wedding ring and I was thrilled......for a second or two. Then I imagined how hard it must have been for this guy to tell his wife he lost his ring. As luck would have it, on the day I was hunting during mid-day, a woman approached me and asked if I had found any rings. She described the ring I found to a T. Turns out it was lost a week prior when her sister and brother-in-law were visiting. She gave me the address and I mailed it to them. Never heard a word from them. No matter, I did the right thing and it felt good.

[higgmeister]

A Maine woman who lost her then-boyfriend's class ring in 1973 was reunited with the precious item after it was found buried in a park in Finland.

Yeah, "lost" probably like mine was "lost" in 1973. My girlfriend had shown me class rings of her past boyfriends when we first met. Then when I got ready to leave she couldn't find my ring.

Actually, I feel guilty about how I left her. I was in her bedroom for a last go at it with my brother out in the truck waiting for me to say goodbye.

Well, I looked her up on facebook or myspace or somewhere online several years ago and I really dodged a bullet. She looked like she had been rode hard and put away wet.

I got lucky another time too. A girl I went out with a couple of times in high school was later found guilty of felonious animal abuse. She and her husband left their home and a kennel full of dogs to starve to death before they were discovered. He husband fled the state for four or five years to avoid prosecution.

[wally_bert]

I have to go in some manufacturing and machine spaces. No jewelry.

The only piece I have is a wedding ring. It stays in a wallet compartment.

[Svartalfiar]

Why do men take their rings iff to wash their hands? Hubby was always doing that.I take rings off when I go to bed.

Because if you leave it on, it gets damp and weird and oddly soapy-sweaty feeling and just isn't comfortable. And that dampness takes forever to go away. If it ever does.

[gcparent]

Got it. Just saying I have never seen s woman take her wedding or engagement off in a public restroom.

[Tax-chick]

She said her husband spent some time in the country, but it was 20 years after the ring was lost.

Maybe he bought a replacement ring which he lost 20 years later in Finland.

[Svartalfiar]

Got it. Just saying I have never seen s woman take her wedding or engagement off in a public restroom.

I have not either. Then again, I generally avoid the ladies' room, and women who sneak into the mens' to avoid the line are generally in more of a get-in-get-out mode.