I have this kept in a nice ring box that I think I got from my Grandmother. I believed my father used to wear a ring with a red stone in it. I was part of a high school where we had high school traditions and one of those traditions was to get a class ring.  Mom spent money to buy me this. It's in the junk box for a reason. Silly, but I was not proud to get the hell out of my high school. I was happy to say goodbye to the place where a costly banner down the center hallway in the school colors was more important than new computers or better guidance or interested teachers who are well paid. When I started at this high school where I had the pleasure of just barely making it out of, the "principal" frequently slept in the office and attendees were being hauled out of study hall for chopping a line. The new principal cleared that up, but I can't imagine how the public school system has degraded or upgraded? Hmmmm.

Yeah. Dad's ring was red, so I got red. Yeah.  I did wear this until I graduated. We had to show off our memorial jewelry but this was in a place where I hid in a jeans jacket so I wouldn't get thumped. I pleaded with mom in my senior year to get that jacket. Good thing. The burnout crowd thought I had joined them and the jocks and the punks left us alone as we were the ones that got their stash. I remember we had to select what we wanted on the side of this ring to have a favorite hobby or future profession cast in cheap metal.  Because I wanted to go into broadcasting, that wasn't a noble enough profession to put on a ring. Sure they had lawyers and doctors and they even had garbage trucks and sex worker symbols. No, I got a CB radio. It was the closest thing to broadcasting they had.  Hell, I feel that the tassle and stupid robe that I got with graduation were better memories of me leaving this hellish place. Mr. Fat Hanz is showing this fine piece of jewelry that I could have gotten from a bubble gum machine or a crane game in a Chinese restaurant. *cheery music punched by a sneeze* At least a RING POP was a tasty burger, then you threw out the base. This won't even unlock secret codes, or transform me into...wait...Shhhh. Check it.

ARF! -Ric