I wore your promise on my finger for a while...

now I don't want it, I don't want you.

So what do you do with that ring? Do you sell it? Do you give it back to the person who gave it to you?

Would you buy someone else engagement/wedding rings if it was a bargain and give it to someone you love? If you did, would you tell them where the ring came from?

A friend broke up with his fiancee. She didn't take it very well , smashed a few of his toys, including his car and left the engagement ring at the scene of the crime so he would know who did it. He doesn't want the ring and trying to give it to us in payment for room and board. He stayed over at our place for a week or so and then again the night of the 'incident'. We don't want it either for obvious reasons.

cheers,
JJB

Comments

        • +1

          He told it here

          This is my kids favorite love story, closely followed by Tangled :) However they still don't get why she had to get on that plane. I wonder what someone else would have done if they had been in the same situation :

          • they had paid $1200 for a non-refundable one-way ticket to go back home.

          • their friends and family were eagerly waiting to see them after 4 years of absence. Their parents had taken the day off to come pick them up at the airport.

          • their student visa had already expired a couple of days ago.

          • had donated all of the things that they couldn't fit in their suitcase (furniture, kitchenwares, most of their clothes…etc) , quit their job, returned the keys to their flat.

          Do they ignore the boarding call and say "YES"?

          Does it make any difference that the poem was this one:

          Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
          Enwrought with golden and silver light,
          I would have spread the cloths under your feet:

          But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
          I am spreading my dreams under your feet;
          Please tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

          My kids reckon that where he went wrong was that:

          • he didn't get down on his knees

          • sang the poem because then a flashmob would have ensued and theirs no way she could have said no to that

          They also think that DIAC agents are romantics. They would have overlooked the fact that she had already overstayed on her student visa and grant her Permanent residency just so these star-crossed lovers can be together.

        • @wicket1120:

          Sigh. Seriously big sigh. I'd love to read the story of what was going through your head when this happened and what portion of the 13 hour flight had elapsed before you decided you'd be saying yes.

        • +3

          @woz:Sorry but I feel weird about sharing my innermost feelings on a public forum :(
          unlike my husband …which is quite surprising because he comes across as quite reserved in real life. One of my colleague calls him my "tall, dark, handsome, brooding" man and says he looks like Ralph Fiennes in Wuthering Heights. A girlfriend at our wedding said something about how he was a man with a "tortured soul" just like Angel from Buffy the vampire slayer.

          I'm glad that his true personality is coming through in these threads. He can be intense but he's neither unhappy nor brooding and his soul is just fine. In fact he's a slightly eccentric but quite contented man, with an irresistibly, wicked sense of humour and a dirty mind.

          As for his looks, he's good-looking but he's nowhere near the hotness that is Ralph Fiennes : The gardener , The english patient…. *drools :b

        • -1

          @wicket1120: Is he an Aquarius by any chance?

        • -1

          @cheng2008: Nope Scorpio like me. Why?

        • +1

          @Jar Jar Binks: I'm getting negged because I know our astrological signs? o.O we don't believe in astrology but its always funny to hear what people who believe in these things have to say about it.

          We've been told that scorpios are supposedly passionate, 'raw', 'animalistic','volcanoes' in bed but that we also demand total control of our partner's body, mind and soul. We are possessive, we refuse to compromise..etc

          According to those unsolicited well-wishers, there is nothing worse than 2 scorpios together because all we'll ever do is fight and f*** and it will all end horribly.

          Hmmm, the sex's great and I'd love to think that I'm an animal in bed. (That's a compliment , right?)
          As for fights, we fight like every other couple. It can get quite heated sometimes but only because we are very stubborn and feel strongly about things: she once threw a tea-towel at me, it was hilarious because she has such a bad aim.

          What's your thoughts on it @Cheng2008 ? Do you think we'll make it to our 60th wedding anniversary? :)

        • @Jar Jar Binks:
          I'm not into astrology, but my mum's really into it and she keeps telling me that Aquarius is the slightly eccentric and reserved star sign. Dunno about Scorpio though, I might check with her later.

          Lol I don't get the down votes either.

        • +1

          OK, so apparently my cousin and her husband are both Scorpios. Given that they are getting along like a house on fire (from what I see anyway) and rarely argue perhaps the naysayers are wrong after all.

          "Do you think we'll make it to our 60th wedding anniversary? :)" Based on my experiences, I'd say yes, for as long as she can tolerate your mate's shenanigans :D

        • @Jar Jar Binks:

          I once threw garlic bread at my husband.

        • @amelyn: Did you miss him?

        • +3

          @Jar Jar Binks:

          Nope. We were in the car. The distance was very short.

          Taught him to take a pregnant woman's stressed out hormones seriously, lol.

        • @cheng2008:

          When did someone decide that a burning house was a good thing? ;-)

        • @cheng2008: The partner's mom is really into the chinese astrology, e.g. friends of ours broke up and she said, "Yeah you see, I told you snake and horse are not compatible, horse can step on the snake!" Lolol

          Hate to think what would happen if we happen to have uncompatible signs.

        • @lenlynn: yeah my mum's like that. I'm a rabbit, and she tells me that I cannot date a girl who is a rooster, it will be bad luck.

        • @cheng2008: I just googled a rabbit and a rooster too.i wonder, is it like we are supposedly not compatible with the animal directly 'opposite' us, I.e. 6 years apart?

          My bf's mom went to check with her chinese fortune teller (is that what you call him? He seems to do eveeeerything) and thankfully a dragon and rat is really compatible. Hate to think that she would not be logical enough to accept a person who is suitable for her son who just happened to be of an incompatible zodiac though.

        • +1

          @lenlynn:
          Yeah I think that's how it supposedly works. The opposite animal is incompatible, and the ones next to it are very compatible. (5 or 7 year difference) Not sure about the other ones.

          But yeah, being too obsessed with it makes no sense. Although with how picky some in-laws are, horoscopes might be the least ridiculous reason for not agreeing to the marriage :p

        • @lenlynn:

          "Yeah you see, I told you snake and horse are not compatible, horse can step on the snake!"

          Lol with that logic… that kind of sucks for dragons like me… dragons can eat any of the animals in the zodiac XD

        • @ProjectZero: lol according to her logic you need a rat cos only the rat is intelligent enough to match the dragon (according to the zodiac story the rat hitched a ride on the oz and jumped off at the end to claim first place. Something like that if I'm not wrong.).

  • Good news! We know who it is, the McLaren is already repaired, and his finances should soon improve:-
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2923781/One-not-care…

    • +2

      I've looked at the pictures upside-down and sideways, and I'm afraid I can't see it. I doubt that Mr Bean will be getting the lead male role in the live adaptation of Tangled anytime soon…

  • +1

    I don't know why anyone is giving this thread a second thought. Jar Jar is full of shit. His friend doesn't have a Mclaren.

    • Do you know him?

    • source?

      • The bullshit he is saying in this thread. His claims about the car are ludicrous. Maybe he is talking about himself and using the old 'my friend' trick, but so much of his story is untrue, it's hard to believe any of it. A damaged mclaren and no pictures, a friend with a $500k car but supposedly no money, and claims that he tried to finance a mclaren p1, a car not on sale here at all, not road legal and costing in excess of $2 million.

        • +4

          @thorton82,

          damaged mclaren and no pictures

          • well the car is not his

          • he said he hasn't seen the damaged car

          • he hasn't heard from his mate since the 'incident'

          • even if he had pictures, would it be wise to post it on a public forum when there may or may not be a police/ insurance investigation being carried out and lawyers involved?

          • the thread is about engagement rings and what happens to them when they are no longer needed, not about cars.

          a friend with a $500k car but supposedly no money

          Did JJB say that his mate didn't have money? I'm pretty sure he said that that person was living above his means,not that he didn't have money.

          mcLaren P1

          I think this was said in jest in reply to someone's comment about how mclarens aren't all that expensive. I don't know much about cars but here's what I know :

          • the mate drives a mclaren

          • his profile pic on facebook used to be one of him sitting at the wheel of a mclaren in taiwan, with a huge goofy smile on his face.

          • he was at some point trying to use his parents' house as collateral to buy a car.

          • the car that he has bought is not the one that he wanted.

          he is talking about himself and using the old 'my friend' trick

          if you've read the thread, you'd know that JJB's married….to me :b

    • You do have to suspend disbelief to read many of these forum topics but what the heck- they are amusing.

    • Still entertaining as hell =)

      Especially the comments lol

Login or Join to leave a comment