I got home Saturday evening at 8:30 pm and discovered I had missed a text about a lost ring. I immediately called to get the full story. Samantha stated that she had placed her rings and jewelry on her lap and forgot they were there. She, her husband and son stopped at a local McDonald’s; when she got out, forgetting about the rings, and inadvertently the rings fell off her lap and onto the pavement. She did not realize she had lost them until she got home about 80 miles away.
On Saturday, her husband discovered the “Ringfinders of Maine” website and Dennis Boothby. They contacted him and Dennis recommended they contact me [Thank you Dennis!].
Samantha sent me a text.
The rings were lost at 3:30 Friday afternoon. Snow started at 9:00 pm that night. By the time she contacted me the following day, the lot had been plowed.
I arrived at the McDonald’s the following morning [Sunday] at first light [6:30] and spoke with the manager. They had received her messages and no one had turned in any rings. They were very agreeable to my searching the parking lot and have my and Samantha’s contact information should the second ring show up.
I first searched the left hand snowbank and came up with pennies, dimes and miscellaneous trash.
I then searched the right hand snowbank with similar findings and finally up came the engagement ring !!
I searched and researched that bank [it really wasn’t that big]… and could not come up with the second ring. Being 8 degrees outside and having been searching for an hour or so, I was pretty cold. I texted Samantha and let her know that I had one ring and for now was done with the search.
Throughout the day that Sunday, I kept pondering what could have happened to the second ring?? Around two that afternoon, I realized we were getting another snowstorm Monday. Hence, if I was going to search more, it had to be done now. Thinking the round wedding ring could have perhaps rolled to a different area and been plowed to a different location, I searched the entire parking lot and snowbanks. To no avail, no second ring. Perhaps someone had picked it up, perhaps it’s deep in a snowbank [some of the snowbanks are 6 feet tall!].
After the storm on Monday, the plow folks will be hauling the snow off site and if the ring is in it, will most likely never be found.I am hoping to contact the plow company and find out where they haul the snow. Perhaps it is a place that will be searchable in the spring.
I contacted Samantha — she and her husband were happy and ecstactic that they had the one ring and made arrangements to meet me and pick it up.
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