Roman Ring
Oct. 18th, 2005 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I used to own a Roman ring. It was too small to fit on any of my fingers, so I wore it on a thong round my neck.
Yes Roman. Really and truly Roman. Or so the seller said.
Last week the thong came untied and I lost the ring.
So I went on eBay and bid for another.
There are an awful lot of Roman rings for sale on eBay. I guess they're genuine. I figure they sell too cheaply for anyone to bother faking them. But where do they all come from?
The Romans must have been a really careless set of people.
Roman matron: (walking down country lane) "Drat, my ring just slipped off my finger into the ditch. That's the third in as many weeks."
Roman patriarch: (cheerily) "Never mind dear. Plenty more where that came from."
Of course it is entirely possible that they....
have been robbed out of graves.....
(pause for delicious shudder.)
Anyway, I just learned that I won my auction. A bronze ring with a blue stone in it is coming my way.
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Date: 2005-10-18 05:02 am (UTC)*covets*
*walks slowly away from E-bay*
That place is just dangerous, really... I try to avoid their website, because I know I shouldn't buy anything, but it's so tempting!
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Date: 2005-10-18 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-18 05:09 am (UTC)(Like my father's engagement ring... NOT, however, inscribed with my mother's name, but with "Pauline", who remains to this day a murky person whom he refuses to comment on... LOL So who needs a Roman ring when you have a family heirloom like that? With my close relationships to exes I suppose it's only fair that I have that ring...)
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Date: 2005-10-18 06:12 am (UTC)Pauline? how very, very odd.