Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The Ring


No no.. This is not one of those horror movie reviews or a praise of the Lord of the Rings or anything like that! This is something that really happened and drove my cousin nuts and indirectly, well controlled my own life for the possible 3 hour obsession.

So it happened that I used to have an amethyst studded sterling silver ring which I used to wear on my right middle finger (no intentions though I have fantasized showing the finger in the process of showing people my beautiful ring - wicked me! :)) It turned out to be pretty lucky - don't ask me why I think all this jewelry stuff has a lot of luck attached to it. I have been told by preachers that diamonds are real luck deciders - either they are reaaaaaal lucky or they aren't. Luckily the one(s) I have ended up with have been good for me. Ok to cut the long story short, this ring over the couple of years that I have worn it lost each amethyst steadily and soon was barren and poverty-stricken so much so that people asked me alll the time - "What happened to the ring?" I also have another funda that if you dropped the used ring into a river (not lake, not sea, not well, you get it, not any other waterbody), a wish made alongside would come true. So you must be thinking Ohio River was the lucky one - nope, not that murky river! Some river did get the blessing and I sure hope my dreams come true!

Anyways, so while I was at New Orleans, we got into Claire's (sure every woman in America knows of it) and saw this sterling silver ring ( a li'l thicker than I wanted.. but the right color and with very few stones likely to fall). I tried it on my left hand, same finger and with the tie-wrap around it it was a snug fit. I asked for my cousin's opinion and got the green signal and bought it! I was excited!! I had been missing playing with this ring ever since I foolishly threw it away and no sooner was I out the store, I ripped the tie-wrap off and tried it on my right hand. Imagine my horror when it just wouldn't go through! Frantically, I took off the ring from my left middle finger and tried it. It was a snug fit. Thats when the biological mess struck me. The right hand, being my primary hand was a fraction larger than the left. I had never noticed it till I got this horrendous confirmation now.. Sob sob..

So we got home... me midly heartbroken and my cousin unaware of what was going to hit her. We'd rented a bunch of movies to watch over dinner and I played "Beyond Borders". All along, I didnt realize I was doing it, but apparently I was subconsciously fiddling my three rings amongst the 6 fingers (leave out the thumb n pinkie) I could. And also I was slowly dawning into the realization that this was bugging my cousin and she was throwing me these intermittent doleful glances. But I couldn't stop it! It was almost like I was possessed and I kept trying them in combinations that made me unhappy that my ring finger of my left hand remained occupied. (It indicates engagement, you know?!?) And I uttered the dialogue that she is unlikely to forget.

"I understand how Frodo must've felt..."

The look of exasperation on her face left me in peals of laughter and was worth every cent I paid for the ring. When I told her that I was dissatisfied with the arrangement the rings were finding on my fingers without me feeling like tearing it out and that I was thus going to leave it behind for her, I got the paisa vasool factor from her 'Are-you-really-now?' face. And when I told her my ring and river theory, I gauged that if I left the poor ring behind, it would probably feel itself flushed down the potty.

I herded it back. It is now sitting somewhere on our front room divan. Soon, I am going to have to decide its future... Maybe it will just hang around my neck as a weird locket on my gold chain... who knows!
PS: That pic is not really The Ring. I shall put up its own pretty pic soon!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really couldnt gather much from the post(way too ignorant abt jwellery...in fact i had to search in wikipedia about amethyst) but i can gather this much that the u aint satisfied with the new ring..
However me thinks there is a consistency problem with the post as initially it started out as the ring and the river theory while at the end of the post it reduced to a ring and lake theory ??

Anonymous said...

Good observation... Me changed it! I did mean river, really!

Anonymous said...

Seriously? Not only did I have to put up with your drama about the ring, but now I have to read ur blog too..:)..naah..it was cute..:)..too bad u didnt leave it behind, missisippi ( i think i got the spelling wrong..but who cares?) would have been ONE ring RICHER..:)..Love ya..:)

Anonymous said...

Thanks Bubbles! Luv ya too!

Anonymous said...

PPLS of the world...
I wanted to inform everyone especially babli that I claimed the much mentioned ring in question..and it resides on my left hand thumb...and babli to ur advanatage I put jaya thru the same agony that she put u thru..7 fingers one ring... :D.. and she reacted the same way u did..look of disbelief as I checked out my own hand trial after tiral(there were retrials too :P )..But she was more violent in the end and slapped my hand.. boooooooooooooo

-- Vidhya

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