More serendipity...

[fajrdrako]

Another discovery of lost treasure, and nothing this time to do with cleaning up.

I have had a tendency, all my life, to lose jewellry. Cheap or expensive, it doesn't matter. I stopped wearing rings entirely because of that - there was a pearl ring my mother gave me when I was about twelve that I still grieve. Some family heirlooms, too. Earrings tend to fall out even if I have doubled the catchpiece, or added the little plastic bits.

Necklaces generally stay on, unless they break. So I like to wear them.

So I had a gold necklace I'd bought last January in the Caribbean. I noticed one day that the catch was loose. "I'd better get that fixed before I lose it," I said to myself. But I didn't take it off. By the end of the day, it was gone. I had nothing to replace it with.

That was about four months ago. I hoped it would turn up in the apartment, but... no. I'd been out and about that day, on the bus, to various places. I assumed it was gone forever.

I found it just now, lost in the cushions of my favourite chair.

First money, now this. What will I find next?

...Too bad I haven't lost any million-dollar bills recently.

Comments

[rhiannonhero]

I love when that happens!!

[fajrdrako]

I really and truly thought that gold chain was gone forever. And it was a souvenir.

[jekni]

I've lost a few things heirloom-y myself. The worst was a silver flip-ring my grandfather gave me when I met him for the first time after the reconciliation (which I had engineered - another story there). It was silver with garnets on one side and emeralds on the other. The half-circle 'flips' had zirconias in them. That was 20-odd years ago and I still miss it.

[fajrdrako]

I know exactly how you feel - in my case it was a sapphire ring given to me by my grandmother, because we both had September birthdays. The memory is bittersweet.