My wife lost a stone from her diamond ring some time ago.
Joe
My wife lost the center diamond out of her wedding ring last January. As big as that stone was, of course in the bigger scheme of things it was tiny. Of course searching was to no avail.
Then, a couple of months later, I am vacuuming the floor of the Volvo. Thorough as i am, I lift the floormat to just get what's underneath there and I am sort of half-glancing at what is going on, and then I just catch a flash of white light, in the split second that it would take, say a diamond, to be sucked into the vacuum.
So I get all excited, walk into the house with the vacuum cleaner bag and start to empty the contents on the dining room table. I don't say anything but of course my wife suspects why I am doing this. We both watch as stuff comes out and, sure enough, a little piece of ... glass ... tumbles out. Hmmm. What a disappointment. We're running late to an appointment and my wife says, oh well, let's go but I don't give up and shake some more. And then the diamond falls out ...!
The next day, the car was going in for service at Volvo's and I had forgotten this but they always give the cars a good cleaning inside and out before giving it back to the customer. So:
- if I hadn't been looking while vacuuming
- if the stone had not been laying face-up as it was being sucked up
- had I stopped emptying out the bag after the piece of white glass fell out
- had I not decided to vacuum that last day the diamond would have been there
it would have for sure been lost forever.
Now back to gas caps!