No warm fuzzy feeling

[ppratt]

OK here's the deal. I haven't found to many rings or pieces of jewelry, and the pieces I have found are normally to old to try to find the original owner. However I have found the owner in some cases, but i have never got that warm fuzzy feeling from the owners when I gave back the item. They just don't seem to care. Is this just me or has anyone else get the same outcome. Sometimes I think its not worth effort in locating the owner.

 

[DFX-SE Gregg]

OK here's the deal. I haven't found to many rings or pieces of jewelry, and the pieces I have found are normally to old to try to find the original owner. However I have found the owner in some cases, but i have never got that warm fuzzy feeling from the owners when I gave back the item. They just don't seem to care. Is this just me or has anyone else get the same outcome. Sometimes I think its not worth effort in locating the owner.

Well...I just do not think that the people getting their rings back realize how much digging some of us do.... I tried working with a school to get a class ring returned last year... They treated me very poorly like they were doing me a favor. On the other hand...I have seen pics where rings are being returned and the person has a smile as wide as a shark...and it is very obvious they are extremely happy....Guess it goes both ways.

 

[willie d]

I returned a class ring last year. When I talked to the guy on the phone, he told me how grateful he was. He went on to say he wanted to send me something to thank me. I never got that thank you gift. Oh well, the important thing is he got his ring back and I made a deposit in the karma bank.

 

[ryaan21]

Ive done stuff like this before and from the way i see it i will never try to locate an owner again. I found a wallet one time in a parking lot,during the christmas season. I flipped it open to see the ID so i could get the name.

I called the woman on the phone and she acted like i was a frickin criminal...."i never lose my wallet....someone MUST have been near my purse.....blah blah blah.....im a pig....blah blah blah..."


There was over $3200.00 in cash in the wallet. Guess what I will be doing next time this happens?

 

[stoney56]

I've seen both ways---grateful as all get out and almost a cussing for finding a class ring where the kid got in trouble for being somewhere that he shouldn't have.
I feel better knowing they got their property back but after finding a $6,000 wedding ring 2X for a gal, I told her next time it's finders keepers. That was 5 years ago and she hasn't lost it since.

 

[Old Dog]

Sometimes it is hard for a person to admit their short comings ,
even in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Actually the School in question was doing you a favor.
They aren't a lost and found.
They do have an obligation to protect all their students ... past and present.

Just because the person you are returning the article to receives it badly,
don't become hard hearted.
There is an inherent nobility in what you did that money can't buy.

Just my two Wheaties

Thom

 

[MD Dog]

I find it kinda weird that some people attache such memories to simple pieces of jewelery that it becomes an heirloom or something significant to that extent. But then again I do find that same kind of attraction and feeling when dealing with some historically significant object. Like I make no such connection when digging up a coin or ring, yet find a little revolutionary war button and I get all fuzzy inside thinking about the soldier who prolly last wore it and under what circumstances it was lost. I guess many others feel the same way in that their jewelery is nothing more than a pieces of metal formed to fit around a finger or wrist or whatever. So I try to keep such efforts to a minimum. I only seek out owners if the pieces looks to be significant, a class ring or military service super bowl whatever. Also I never look unless it is some how otherwise significant like engraving. I once found a ring that was at least a one carrat solitaire with the words forever my love Matt.
Through diligent efforts at local jewelry stores and luck I found the owner. I showed up at her home unannounced one evening expecting the surprise to delight some poor woman to have back her lost memento of undying love. She opened the door and as I showed her my find I could see her face and whole demeanor change from that of happy to meet you stranger to what the he!! do you think your doing infidel. She began to explain to me as she reached for her purse and slapped a twenty into my hand while just as deftly lifting the ring from my other hand. She had divorced such and such Matt after the son of B!atch had cheated on her with x number of little sluts and she herself had thrown that ring away and was sure she was done with him and it. With that she quickly side stepped me walked to the end of her drive and with a mighty heave threw the ring into a lake G_D knows where. Stomping past me and back into her home she unceremoniously slammed the door. I have since learned the art of calling first to see if it is even worth the effort.

 

[ppratt]

You see this is what I'm talking about. However that last story was pretty funny however I do feel for you. I would have been pissed. She should have sold you the ring for twenty.

No one seems to care. It seems to me everyone expects something for nothing.

 

[Montana Jim]

I once said here that "God put that treasure in my path so I could find it".

And someone else replied; "God put you in the path so you could find and return it".

So I thought long and hard on that...

And I decided that I find what I keep. I'd never return an old Spanish coin to the Spanish government... I'd never return an old silver coin to the American government, and I'll never return a class ring to a person who lost it. I don't have a cold or hard heart... I have a joyous heart in what I find.

Also - I'll never post here when I do that.

 

[Rob66]

All depends on the sentiment attachment. Bad memories bad feelings.Good memories good feelings.
The way the economy is going people are going to be in a piss poor mood. Gas here in CA is 4.00 a gal

 

[PALEOMAN]

my sisters friend found a beautiful class ring made of black-hills gold and tracked down the owner who was less than appreciative. almost a year later my sister found the same ring. guess what she did with it.

 

[Ant]

I'm a dirt bag because I never give back Gold Class Rings, or any gold for that matter. I once posted a class ring on T-Net that I found. And after being called everything under the sun for not retuning it I'll never post another one either.

If you own a class ring on anything similar, it's' best to have it insured.

 

[Montana Jim]

I'm a dirt bag because I never give back Gold Class Rings, or any gold for that matter. I once posted a class ring on T-Net that I found. And after being called everything under the sun for not retuning it I'll never post another one either.

If you own a class ring on anything similar, it's' best to have it insured.

I'm in good company with you Anthony!

 

[truckinbutch]

Got an invitation to my 40th class reunion this week.
Got backchannel requests that if I show up I do not bring signed yearbooks and an altogether too good memory of who was boffin who back when and documents/artifacts(?)I might have saved.
Never been to one before.For s...ts and giggles I may stroll through the freebie picnic with a backpack and an allknowing smile on my face.Only the guilty flee where no man persueth.
No personal gain for me.Just being a prick to return the favor to the class of '68.All relics I have belong to me.

 

[MD Dog]

I took a helicopter to my 30th reunion. went into the school ignoring all on the way. went straight to the men's room, took a sh!t and left without flushing. Remounted the copter and with a flash of the one finger fleurdele' and lifted off. Great healing experience to say good bye to that past.

 

[Marauder Dan]

finders keepers I say... we enjoy what we do,we respect the land we hunt and we work for what we find..you can quote me on that!