Mystery of a Missing Class Ring

--by joyjoy, posted Jul 5, 2008

Many times we write about how we shared our kindness and I wanted to share a brief story about how I received kindness from a stranger.

Kristin, my 22 year-old daughter, just graduated from college and also just recently purchased her first new car. In the process she traded in her old car, which by now is 10 years old and was a good and faithful friend that proceeded to overheat 4 times on her way to the dealer to pick up her new car. This transaction was completed in the beginning of November.

On Moday of this week, there was a message on my answering machine, from a small wholesale car dealer that had purchased Kristin's old car. In cleaning it out, they found her high school class ring. Kristin only wore that ring for about 6 weeks when she lost it and that was 6 years ago! What a kind effort on the part of this car dealer to go to the trouble ot tracking us down and contacting us - it made my day as well as my daughter's!

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Posted by joyjoy
Jul 5, 2008
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Readers Comments

makethemsmile wrote: A VERY KIND THING TO DO,GOD BLESS HIM.I CARE.

Neise wrote: Your daughter must have been so happy to get her ring back, what a great surprise. It is nice to know how much people care about others.

dazzle wrote: Very nice story. I was happy to hear of their kindness in tracking you and your daughter down to return the ring.

Linda wrote: I have a very similar story..My friend waS working for COca cola plant years ago in Los Angeles...We lived over 60-80miles away...In one of the containers of return coke bottles was one of my classmates class ring...Boy were they surprised when the ring was returned...It had been missing for over 1 yr

maer wrote: Love this story. What beautiful surprises we are blessed with from time-to-time. Let's all keep passing on kindnesses and being grateful when they are passed on to us.

sapna wrote: really ....still honest people is there.

HeatherZoe15 wrote: How surprising that a stranger can do something that really touched our lives.
God bless you!

Lovey wrote: Do kind and you receive kindness... there are very few good people out there. The ones that are left are for example the good car dealer.God bless them for doing a good deed....

lovebug wrote: We humans seem to have chapters in our lifes, some of these chapters we call rite's of passage, the class ring is a symbol of the completion of a commitment to be educated, you were blessed that one soul knew what the symbol meant.

MyHeart2Yours wrote: I believe that people are inherently (sp) kind and honest...we just don't hear about them enough. Thank you for, once again, showing mankind is good!

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