Sigma Chi Ring

At the end of September, Andy went for a bike ride on the MKT trail after the Division of Information Technology annual picnic.  He had placed his Sigma Chi Ring in one of the pockets.  Unfortunately, there was a hole at the bottom of the pocket along the seam just large enough for his ring to slip out.  To say Andy was upset is an understatement.  He was devastated.  The expense of replacing the ring aside, he just loved it.  I tried to tell him that it was okay and we could always buy him another one.  He would repeatedly say, “I don’t want a *new* ring, I want *my* ring.”  He made flyers and took them to the stops along the part of the trail that he had ridden that day.  Also, he took some flyers to the local pawn shops.  Turns out that the flyers to a local pawn shop was a blessing.  A woman found the ring not long after he lost it.  She put an ad in the classifieds of the paper and received no response (BTW, it never even really occurred to us to check this route with all the technology these days).  Eventually, she took it to Family Pawn here in town that looked at it and remembered it from the flyer.  They gave her the information and she contacted us tonight.  You should have seen the look on Andy’s face when she said that she had found the ring.  He was stunned and speechless.  He identified it to her by telling her the engraving on the inside of the ring.  They set up a time and he’ll meet her tomorrow morning to get his ring.  I can’t even tell you how excited he was that someone found it who really did try to find the owner.  These days it makes you feel good that some people still really *do* want to help.