My coworkers are not exactly sympathetic to my obsession with procuring a large chunk of South African real estate for my ring finger. In fact, you could say some of them are downright dismissive of my hopes and dreams in the sparkler area.
"Are you still on that diamond kick?" asked Coworker #1
"Yep! I tried on a two-point-five carat ring over vacation!" I replied, glowing in the memory of that beautiful sparkler twinkling away on my...pinkie, because the ring was made for someone with fingers about as narrow as Posh Spice, apparently. "But it was $48,500, so I don't think I'll be getting that anytime soon."
"That's ridiculous. If you came in wearing a ring that big, I'd punch you," he answered. "I'd make a fist out of your hand and make you punch yourself in the eye with your ring."
"Oh, that again?" said Coworker #2. "Why were you looking at a fifty thousand dollar diamond ring, anyway?"
"I wasn't looking for a diamond like that," I said, perhaps a touch defensively, "I was at the jeweler's, and it was in the vintage case - "
"Wait, what were you doing at the jeweler's?" asked Coworker #2, "Were you just hanging out?"
"NO," I said, definitely defensively this time, "we were at the children's museum across the street, and Warren's been talking about getting an adventure bike to go along with his dirt bike, so I was going to look at diamond bands so that I could tell him, 'here, this is what it's going to cost you if you want to get an adventure bike,' so I just went in to look! I'm not getting a new diamond anytime soon!"
Hmphf. You'd think they'd be a little more supportive of a girl's dearest-held wish, but no. Well, I tell ya, if I ever win PowerBall, right after I write a huge check to the food pantry and the homeless shelter and my five favorite charities, the very next thing I'm doing is hiking my butt right back to that jewelry store, and I'm not walking out til that ring is sitting in its rightful place on my left hand. So there!
All I have to do now is start playing PowerBall.
... and if all that sounds horribly acquisitive and grasping and totally un-Buddhist of me, well... it would be worth a few extra lifetimes to have a ring that nice. Plus, I'm not the only one who thinks so:
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