Tom_in_CA
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About 15 yrs. ago, someone got my name from a local detector dealer. To come look for a lost ring on the beach. The fellow had rented a detector from the dealer, but couldn't find his ring. Guess he just wasn't fluent in the operation, etc.... So when he went to return it from the rental period, had asked if the dealer knew of any local md'ing persons who could help.
I agreed to meet the fellow in front of one of our touristy hotels which is situated right on the beach. He explained that he'd been playing frisbee and nerf-football a few nights prior, and saw his ring launch into the distance, after one of the ball throws.
At first he thought it's merely a matter of scratching around in the sand where it landed, right ? But as any good md'r knows: dry sand "swallows" up a dense heavy item like that. Daylight was running out, so he figured he could just come look for it again in the morning. So he made a mental marker of a certain clump of seaweed that the spot was next to.
Imagine his horror, the next morning, when he realized the high tide had re-arranged all the seaweed piles on the beach. Doh ! Being from the mid-west, he just wasn't aware of this .
The background story was that he was a newly-wed. Had only been married for scarcely a month. As soon as him and his bride returned from their honey-moon, and as soon as he'd returned to work, his boss announced to him that he had to take a business trip to Monterey, CA to meet a client for business. He went home and told his new wife that he had to be gone a few days for this business trip.
At first, she was excited. Because she knew that their company policy was to let spouses go along on these mandatory trips, all expenses paid by the company. So she was thinking "yippee, we get to go on a 2nd honeymoon, see the beach and the tourist spots, blah blah". But the husband dissuaded her by telling her that "It's going to be all work work work. No time for fooling around. So you really don't want to go". Thus she reluctantly agreed to stay home
After he and his coworker flew into Monterey, CA, and had the first day of meetings with their client, they went to check into their hotel room, right on the beach. And immediately progressed to go clowning around on the beach in front of the hotel. That was when he lost his ring.
He looked up in the phone book of where he could rent a detector. But .... couldn't find it. That was when I got the call. He explained that he was dog-meat if he didn't find the ring, since .... after all,... if he had to explain to his wife that he'd been out on the beach tossing frisbees and nerf balls, she would ... of course ... say "Wait ? I thought this was a strictly business trip !"
By this time, a few days tides had come & gone, so ..... all he had was a rough idea of where the ring had landed.
Continued in part II
I agreed to meet the fellow in front of one of our touristy hotels which is situated right on the beach. He explained that he'd been playing frisbee and nerf-football a few nights prior, and saw his ring launch into the distance, after one of the ball throws.
At first he thought it's merely a matter of scratching around in the sand where it landed, right ? But as any good md'r knows: dry sand "swallows" up a dense heavy item like that. Daylight was running out, so he figured he could just come look for it again in the morning. So he made a mental marker of a certain clump of seaweed that the spot was next to.
Imagine his horror, the next morning, when he realized the high tide had re-arranged all the seaweed piles on the beach. Doh ! Being from the mid-west, he just wasn't aware of this .
The background story was that he was a newly-wed. Had only been married for scarcely a month. As soon as him and his bride returned from their honey-moon, and as soon as he'd returned to work, his boss announced to him that he had to take a business trip to Monterey, CA to meet a client for business. He went home and told his new wife that he had to be gone a few days for this business trip.
At first, she was excited. Because she knew that their company policy was to let spouses go along on these mandatory trips, all expenses paid by the company. So she was thinking "yippee, we get to go on a 2nd honeymoon, see the beach and the tourist spots, blah blah". But the husband dissuaded her by telling her that "It's going to be all work work work. No time for fooling around. So you really don't want to go". Thus she reluctantly agreed to stay home
After he and his coworker flew into Monterey, CA, and had the first day of meetings with their client, they went to check into their hotel room, right on the beach. And immediately progressed to go clowning around on the beach in front of the hotel. That was when he lost his ring.
He looked up in the phone book of where he could rent a detector. But .... couldn't find it. That was when I got the call. He explained that he was dog-meat if he didn't find the ring, since .... after all,... if he had to explain to his wife that he'd been out on the beach tossing frisbees and nerf balls, she would ... of course ... say "Wait ? I thought this was a strictly business trip !"
By this time, a few days tides had come & gone, so ..... all he had was a rough idea of where the ring had landed.
Continued in part II
