{"id":121,"date":"2009-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/2009\/01\/25\/give-me-a-ring\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:16","slug":"give-me-a-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/give-me-a-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me A Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;ve just finished eating or are about to start..I apologize in advance for the following:<br \/>\nI was reminded this week of an old joke about a Norwegian gentleman using an outdoor toilet.&nbsp;As he was pulling up his pants, some change fell out of the pockets and down the hole.<br \/>\nHe then took a five dollar bill from his wallet and threw it in the hole too.&nbsp;When&nbsp; a friend asked why the heck he did that, the Norwegian said, &ldquo;Vell, it vasn&rsquo;t vert it to go fishin&rsquo; around down there for yust 35 cents.&quot;<br \/>\nWhat would it take for you to make such a disgusting descent?&nbsp; Certainly not five dollars; probably not for five hundred dollars. What about five &ldquo;thousand?&rdquo;<br \/>\nThat&rsquo;s what Phoenix plumber, Mike Roberts, aka Mr. Rooter, did it for.&nbsp;Here&rsquo;s the poop. (sorry)<br \/>\nA California woman, Allison Berry, had just finished eating at Phoenix&rsquo;s Black Bear Diner when she excused herself to the rest room.<br \/>\nApparently, as she was completing that mission, her 70 thousand dollar diamond ring slipped off her finger and into the&nbsp; toilet which she proceeded to flush before realizing what had happened.<br \/>\nIt was gone..lost forever in the bowels (sorry) of the Phoenix sewer system.&nbsp;Or was it?&nbsp;An emergency call was&nbsp;placed to Mr. Rooter who spent the next eight hours fishing down the biffy with his fiber-optic cable.&nbsp;Then, finally, &ldquo;success!&rdquo;<br \/>\nThe &ldquo;root&rdquo; man was able to return the treasure to a greatly relieved (sorry) Ms. Berry who, after a thorough hand washing..one would hope, wrote out a check to Mr. Rooter for $5,200 ..another for $250 to retile the bathroom and another for $200 to an employee for staying late. &nbsp;<br \/>\nI hope she has enough left over to pay a jeweler to have that expensive ring resized.This is the ring. It has 7 carats and a couple pieces of corn.(sorry)Az.Central Photo&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;ve just finished eating or are about to start..I apologize in advance for the following: I was reminded this week of an old joke about a Norwegian gentleman using an outdoor toilet.&nbsp;As he was pulling up his pants, some change fell out of the pockets and down the hole. He then took a five&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-at-large","category-60","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12017,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/12017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}