This strange story isn’t exactly a synchronicity, but it’s an unlikely scenario. It shows how great desire for something can overcome all odds. You could call this guy lucky, but it’s something more than that. An ineffable factor came into play and the odds no longer mattered.
Here’s the story. Brian McGuinn, who lives in suburban Fort Lauderdale, accidentally threw away his wife’s $10,000 ring when he tossed out an old razor blade. His wife had just handed him the ring as she stepped into the shower, and asked him to put it in her jewelry box. It never made it.
McGuinn didn’t realize his mistake until the next morning, but by then Waste Management had collected the garbage. The ring, it seemed, was lost forever…or was it?
Distraught, Anna McGuinn called the company that processes the garbage and was told that her husband could come and search. Which he did. The plant manager figured out where the ring most likely would be, based on where that neighborhood’s trash was dumped. Then he got McGuinn a protective suit and goggles.
“It was absolutely disgusting. It stunk beyond belief. The smell was God-awful. Everything unsanitary you could think of crossed my path at least a couple times.” McGuinn recalled in an interview with the Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale.
Incredibly, within 30 minutes, McGuinn spotted something shiny surrounded by black sludge sticking out between brown bags. “It looked like a screw and I reached down and it looped around my index finger. I was ecstatic. It was probably one of the best moments ever.”
McGuinn let out a whoop that was heard across the landfill. He went home and took a very long shower, and even scrubbed his skin with toothbrushes.
What are the chances?
Great story. I love a happy ending.
Sorry, I have been so out of touch. I can barely keep up with everything these days.
*Here is another fun story for you. My sister was looking for a Christmas ornament that had belonged to my mother. This was a few years after my mother had passed away. She knew it should be in the playroom of our family home but the room was as large as a two car garage and about as full as a hoarder’s basement. She was poking around in one of the large walk-in closets in that room when she was startled by a box dropping off the shelf behind her. Of course she found the very ornament she had been looking for inside the box.
Hey Butternut, always good to see you and her from you. What a cool synchro THAT is.
geeeee – all that just reminded me of when my son was so critically ill a number of years and the doctors kept telling me that 99% of such patients didn’t make it at the stage where he was and that i should prepare etc – and then, one time when one of them was going through the whole 99% death i said – well, thank goodness for that! and he and his little entourage all looked as if i’d lost my mind – and i then said, cause he’s got ONE PERCENT and that’s all he needs! and it was –
The fighting Leo!
well, you know how we lionesses are about our cubs! and then…there’s science – and then, there’s “knowing” [a step up from believing] – it wasn’t denial – just a different reality – for me –
i read this somewhere else in the media – what a story – and the chances? = 1
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That’s some story – shows we can beat the odds, with the right attitude.
Attitude seems to be the bottom line is just about anything!
Wonderful story!
Hey D! Good to see you.
Amazing……..and what determination!
All I can say is WOW! That husband went from being in the doghouse to being King of the Castle! That must be some special ring!!! Whoop whoop! 🙂
There’s a feeling that comes over you when you’re convinced you can overcome the odds to find a lost object. It happened to me when I lost my billfold in a lake and it was returned by a fisherman (using a net) a week later, and when we lost a cat for several days and I said that cat would return by midnight Saturday. I was convinced of it. We heard a knock on the door a couple of minutes before midnight, and there was our neighbor holding Fox, our lost cat. – R