Rings.

I was walking from town to the place where I had parked, and caught the glint of something on the ground. It turned out to be a lovely engagement ring set with diamonds and a sapphire, quite distinctive. I decided that I would take it to the police station, and set off again to collect my car. On the way I met the mother of my brother-in-law's fiancee, and showed her the ring. She was ecstatic as it turned out that this was her daughter's engagement ring, which she had lost earlier in the day and had been looking all over for. This was a busy route for pedestrians so I was very pleased that I was the one who had found it out of all the people who could have passed that way. Another time I had misplaced my wedding ring and could not find it anywhere despite turning everything inside out including the car, so I resigned myself to the fact that it was lost. We went to visit my own in-laws, and on leaving, my ma-in-law gave me a Marks and Spencer's bag with something in it that she had bought for me, I forget what. When we arrived home and I was lifting the bag out of the boot, my wedding ring fell out. I thought at first that she must have found the ring and forgotten to tell me that she had put it in the bag, but neither she nor my pa-in-law knew anything about it. I was staggered, and at a loss to know how the ring came to be in a bag, especially as the boot had been thoroughly searched along with everywhere else. I was just glad to have it back, but I can't help thinking back to it and smiling every time I see an illusionist on TV pull things out of thin air!