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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4252884" data-attributes="member: 26737">My dad never wore his wedding ring for as long as I could remember. Right around the time I was born, he broke his ring finger while working on a car, and they had to cut the ring off. He couldn't wear it at work (more on that below), so he never got it fixed, and it sat in my parents' chest of drawers until some sorry sack of excrement broke into the house and stole the ring (among other things).Dad was an engineer who worked on mainframe computers, so he couldn't wear a nice highly-conductive band of gold when he was having to stick his hands inside voltage-sensitive equipment. Plus, a lot of those cabinets had exposed high-voltage bus bars inside them--he once told me about a tech who came into his office, white as a sheet, needing to sit down for a moment. He'd just dropped a nice Excelite screwdriver on one of those bus bars, and it had "vaporized it." I still have that screwdriver; although it wasn't actually vaporized, it does have divot that is burned almost halfway through the shaft of the blade, which is about a quarter of an inch in diameter...</blockquote>