Engagement Ring Found On The Hood Of A Car In Middle Of The Road
As he is about to make the biggest decision of his life, 23-year old, Tyler Jones accidentally leaves the $3,000 diamond engagement ring on the hood of his girlfriend’s car. From this point the man actually goes from being extremely unlucky to exceedingly lucky when a man riding his Harley-Davidson sees a small black jewelry box on a car in middle of the road.
Tyler’s mother, Karen Jones says, “I never thought we’d see that ring again.”
Days pass as the Jones family turns their house upside-down looking for the ring until they have almost completely given up hope. As their last resort, they placed an ad in the Standard Examiner, being aware of the fact that anybody finding the ring will most probably not want to give back a diamond ring.
What the family certainly did not know was that Monte Kirk had found the ring while riding his Harley one day.
Kirk is quoted saying, “I opened the box and found a diamond ring inside. You don’t find that every day.” Kirk took the ring home to his wife, Debbie, and she said they would stay alert checking the newspaper for anyone missing a ring.
After waiting an entire week, Jones decided to go ahead and propose to Amanda Anderson anyway (with or without the original ring). Saturday afternoon Jones made the verdict to buy another ring and watch for it more carefully this time.
However, Kirk and his wife had seen the ad and were trying to reach Jones and tell him. When Kirk at last got through with Karen Jones answering to him.
“She was so happy,” Kirk said. “Her son works two jobs and was going to propose that very day.”
Kirk asked Karen to describe the ring in detail to make sure it was the right one. When he was sure it was the same ring, Kirk and his wife hopped on the Harley and met Karen Jones at a nearby store.
“He suddenly brought out the ring from behind his back, and I Just started bawling,” she said, “I asked him to follow me over to the bank to give him the ($100) reward. He wouldn’t accept the reward, though.”
Kirk said he never thought of keeping the ring.
Kirk seemed very considerate and sympathetic of the matter and stated, I know my wife would be sick if she lost her ring. There wasn’t anything else to do. It wasn’t rightfully mine. I had to find the owner.”
Later that day Anderson said, “yes” to Jones’ proposal.