Lost and Found

Here is our 5 year old couch
Here is the stuff we found tonight in our 5 year old couch
Here is my wedding ring that I lost 2 years ago that was stuck in our 5 year old couch.

Some Background:

Let us flash back to our very first Pie Party in November of 2008. Amidst all the pie being consumed, many of us were down in the basement of our town house in Maryland playing Rock Band. Being one who liked to play the drums, I was sitting on the couch doing just that. Since I had lost about 30 lbs the year before, my wedding ring fit very loosely on my ring finger. As such, when I played Rock Band drums, the clanging of the drumsticks on my ring tended to hurt my finger. So that night, I took it off and put it in my jean's pocket. At the end of the night, I couldn't find the darn ring anywhere. I looked under the couch, in any cracks in the couch I could imagine but it was nowhere to be found. We looked off and on for that ring for a good 3 months! Admitting defeat, I finally bought a cheap $75 titanium ring some months later.

Flash forward to tonight Jayne and I were talking about the day and through a chain of topics, arrived at my lost ring, wondering what it would be worth today with the price of gold and all. Jayne mentioned that there must be some sort of pockets in there that would have trapped the ring. Suddenly, inspiration hit me and I said to her, "That's it, were going down stairs to search that couch one more time!" Jayne thought it unlikely, "That couch has been through two houses and across the country, it would have been shaken out or something." Nevertheless, we went down, flipped the sucker over and gave it a thorough pat down, TSA style. When we flipped on its back, we were some rustling that sounded like precious metal on the far side as pictured. Lo and behold, there was a secret pocket that had a treasure trove of items such as the book, a wooden cow, and 50 cents. Jayne was feeling around when she exclaimed, "I think this is it!" I reached in to confirm, it certainly was my ring, securely wedged between the wood pieces. After much jostling, the ring came out and we hugged in disbelief.

We had considered selling or donating this couch on many occasions as it has seen better days. Boy are we glad that we didn't after tonight. It still had one thing left to give.