Twitter is loving the story of a woman's quest to retrieve her engagement ring after it fell down a grate
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Twitter is rejoicing at the story of the woman who was reunited with her engagement ring after dropping it down a pavement grate.
Losing your engagement ring, or any other item of jewellery, is something we all fear, so we can all sympathise with the horror Kate Ray felt when her beloved engagement ring flew off her finger and plunged into a New York drain.
She had been out lunching with her colleagues when her ring, which is a size too loose, spun off her finger as she gesticulated and dropped right down the grate. * shocked face emoji *
But Kate, was determined this wasn’t the end for her precious ring and taking to Twitter she documented her tireless efforts to retrieve it in a now-viral thread.
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I went to get coffee with a colleague & was gesticulating a little too violently when my engagement ring flew off & rolled & rolled…into a sidewalk grate. Fuck.
— Kate Ray (@kraykray) April 24, 2019
Turns out Kate could see her ring in amongst the rubbish in the dirty drain and not to be deterred, set about retrieving it.
At first she thought that only engineers from the drain owners would be able to get it out, but after trying, and failing, to track them down, she set about getting it out herself using a heavy duty tape measure, some duct tape and some magnets. Genius!
i could see it at the bottom (that bit of shine near the top to the left of that pink trash) pic.twitter.com/Q6vExlYU91
— Kate Ray (@kraykray) April 24, 2019
I bring up a lot of dirt from the bottom of the grate. I push the ring around, sometimes out of sight but I’ve locked onto it.
— Kate Ray (@kraykray) April 24, 2019
After about 30 or 40 minutes of trying, Kate managed to lock onto the ring and began to pull it up. By then she’d been joined by a crowd of well-wishers all eager to see how the story unfolded.
Eventually after pushing her fingers as far into the grate as possible she managed to grab hold of the ring to be reunited with her sparkler, much to the joy of the crowd and the people now following eagerly on Twitter.
— Kate Ray (@kraykray) April 24, 2019
Lessons learned: get your rings sized correctly, & your hacked-together taped-up tools are more effective than navigating bureaucracy.
— Kate Ray (@kraykray) April 24, 2019
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Who doesn’t love a story with a happy ending eh? The Twitterverse sure does…
Yikes….I’m stoked you were able to retrieve it safely! This was very relatable as someone whose engagement ring size is *nearly* right and who also tends to gesticulate wildly. 😅
— Amelie Meyer-Robinson (@eastouest) April 25, 2019
This whole thread is literally a marriage metaphor. Mostly marriage is held together with just string and tape, but you’ll dive to the pits of a dirty grate to try to save it every time. Goddamn poetry.
— Janine 🇨🇦 (@janinethe6ix) April 25, 2019
It isn’t the first time an engagement ring has been returned to its owner after being lost in a New York grate.
In December last year a couple who lost their engagement ring down a grate shortly after the proposal, were reunited with the rescued jewellery, after an appeal by police.
Turns out social media is often keen to help out with a missing engagement ring. Also last year, Ruth Bamber sent a public plea to the internet, begging for help finding her sparkler, and it quickly went viral.
