Cracked
November 4th 2007 20:59
One of these days I’m going to be tempted to throw away my wedding ring and replace it. It’s had a crack around nearly three-quarters of its surface for years, and when I tried to see if it was possible to get the crack repaired, I was given the brush-off, somewhat. I got the
impression that the ring wasn’t worth that much in gold terms and that for a jeweller to spend his time on it just wasn’t economic. No one insulted me to my face (I knew the ring wasn’t worth a lot; I’d bought it, after all) but they certainly insinuated that if it had been a gold of real carat value they might have considered doing something.
So it goes.
I look at the websites with wedding bands (as the Americans seem to call them) and think: hmmm, it would be nice to swap the cracked model I’ve got for one of these quality jobs, maybe something with a bit of decoration on it, such as the Celtic one in the picture. And then I look at the price, and think: it’s possible I’ll crack before my ring does. If I don’t, then I’ll replace it at that stage, but probably not with one that I’ll need to take a mortgage out on.
So it goes.
I look at the websites with wedding bands (as the Americans seem to call them) and think: hmmm, it would be nice to swap the cracked model I’ve got for one of these quality jobs, maybe something with a bit of decoration on it, such as the Celtic one in the picture. And then I look at the price, and think: it’s possible I’ll crack before my ring does. If I don’t, then I’ll replace it at that stage, but probably not with one that I’ll need to take a mortgage out on.
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