What Needs to be Right is Completely WRONG!

Class rings came today and I just couldn't wait for lunch so I could pick mine up. I had put so much preperations in it...I want this for side 1 and this for side 2, this colored, this behind the rock, OHH! that looks ugly, get rid of thaat, check to make sure they got my name right...I checked and rechecked the order form. All my payments were on time, EVERYTHING was PERFECT!!!

Or so it seemed. All day I vizualized that big silver ring on my finger. It would be on my left hand, middle finger...well, that's the finger they measured. The guy taking orders told me I wore a size 7. He even took time to write the size on a slip of paper for me so I would know for future reference.

That was that. I handed the deposit over, all while thinking about how perfect it would be.
Today when I picked up the ring, one of my friends was behind me. She told me I couldn't open it until she got hers and we would do it together. We had risked being in the back of the lunch line just to be first in line for our rings.

One...Two...Three...OPEN IT! We both opened it, or well we tried, it took us about 45 seconds to fiqure out how to open the black velvet box. When we opened them we both squealed, then i said, "We both got the same one." And we had. We bothe got the same kind of ring, just with different sides. The ring was beautiful...until I put it on.

I put it on the ring they had measured...it was way to small. So I tried another finger, and another, and another, I went through every finger. THe ring would be too small on half of them and two big on the other half. Finally I found a finger were it fit and didn;t hurt, but yet it had too much room, more than a ring needed.

The ring is wonderful, but even through everything I had imagined about it, I hadn't even imagined that this would happen. But even through all the panic attacks of it not fitting one finger after another, everything ended up ok, one finger just barely works. I could get it resized, but that would be just too much work for a ring.


But it's not all about the ring, it's about the memories with it...It doesn't fit, I had a panic attack over it, this side means this, the other side means this...there will be some pretty amazing stories to go with it, no doubt, but not everything can be perfect.