Skwerly said:
Now I'm not sure I ever want to find a ring.
Not all experiences returning rings are bad, probably most are going to be pretty good if that is what you want to do and the feeling you will get when someone looks at you and you know they really appreciate what you just did for them is hard to replicate any other way.
I do have great respect for those that do it, even more for people that continue to do it after bad experiences but all people are different and can handle good and bad experiences in different ways.
I read a post from a very talented water hunter once that had found dozens and dozens of these things and did the work to track down everyone he could and most were returned.
He loved the ones that sincerely thanked him which was the norm but he told if a few others that acted differently.
Once he contacted an owner in another state that sounded great and asked if he would ship him the ring in the mail or UPS or whatever.
Promised he would let him know when he got the ring and would reimburse him for shipping.
The hunter tracked the ring, the owner got it but he never made contact again.
Another time, and this one would have demoralized me, he used his own gas and drove to a more local owner that lost a ring.
He knocked on the door, the owner opened it, the hunter held up the ring in his open palm and said here is your ring and the guy never said a word, reached out and snatched it out of his hand and then slammed the door in his face.
He just shrugged and wrote it off and went on with his life and continued to return rings every time he found one but me, that would have destroyed me and my faith in human kind...I would have been affected badly.
My empathetic nature is great and makes me want to help all I come across anyway I can but when I see the illogical actions of the underside of the human race that can affect me very deeply.
That is why I believe everyone should do what they want regarding this stuff.
I never judge, much respect for those that do it but for those that don't want to I can see there might be many reasons why.
There is no law that says you must return anything and those that think there are...or want to judge others as any less moral then their pious selves because they don't are very misinformed.
As I keep saying to each their own...and I still sleep very well at night even though I am a pirate.
