[HighSierra5]

Holy chit!

[Scrambler Bob]

Still married after 21 years, and after that!

Love it.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"I climbed down into the septic tank so we could pump every bit of it through a strainer to try to find it.

That's dedication. It's also gross.

[Jolla]

Usually in insurance rings are items on a schedule and no questions asked if lost. My insurance agent fired an employee, she called in a claim the next day, $20,000 ring flushed down the toilet.

[jmaroneps37]

Great God is Good! Story!

[ansel12]

It wouldn’t have been in the toilet but instead must have stuck to the wax ring sealing the toilet to the closet flange.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"I climbed down into the septic tank so we could pump every bit of it through a strainer to try to find it. No luck," Shaina Day said.

EGADS!! Shaina is lucky she didn't die from asphyxiation! And why would you do THAT before pulling the toilet to check it?

That ring certainly has some stories to tell. It's seen, smelled, and heard a LOT.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So, the big unanswered question — is she going to wear it?

[Ezekiel]

For better or worse! That ring sure got the treatment, like it was some kind of sacrificial lamb. Crazy.

The ring was returned to the couple on Christmas Day.

[real saxophonist]

In college, a pair of prescription sunglasses fell out of my shirt pocket as I bent down to flush the toilet. They were gone before I could even process what happened.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I mistakenly thought that using a sink/bathtub drain snake would be a good way to clear out a toilet clog.

The snake went in, but wouldn't come out because of the curves in the plumbing.

I had to cut off the head of the snake and put the other end into a drill and screw the end out.

I can see why things that go down there, stay down there.

[SaveFerris]

(The couple said they learned a lesson from the experience.)

Yeah. Stop cleaning all the time. 🤣

[Chainmail]

While I was engaged to my wife in 1997, she lost her diamond ring and we searched the whole house - including the sinks and the toilet - but towards the end of the day, nothing.

She was very upset, so I expanded the search to include everywhere we had been that day and just as the sun was on the horizon, spotted a flash in the parking lot where she had parked her car to attend an award ceremony and that was her ring!

Been married close to 25 years now and she wears it ever day.

[lee martell]

Does she even want it back at all, considering where the ring has been all this time? Maybe better to pawn that “toilet ring” and buy another piece of jewelry, fresh and clean, worthy of touching with one’s bare skin.

[Vendome]

seems their relationship has endured a lot of crap over the years

[Vermont Lt]

My wife takes her rings off and leaves them laying on counters. It drives me nuts. The only time I’ve taken off my ring is when I was in surgery.

[Vaduz]

It’s a brown diamond now

[Montana_Sam]

Not as personal, of course, but talk to any cell-phone call-center agent about how times they’ve heard from some freaked out guy who just bent over to flush the toilet, and - PLOOP! - flushed his brand new iPhone that he had parked in his shirt pocket. It happens ... frequently.

[dforest]

Must have been one filthy azzed toilet.