Valentines Day is the day when people declare their love to their special someone (at least that’s what the makers of cards and chocolates say). People have all sorts of reasons to say that they should be with their someone. Some can see love in their partner’s eyes, some feel warm in their someone’s embrace, some just like the same video games. But me? I’ve come to think car parks are important. Yes, car parks, so you can wipe that grin off your face right now.
The particular car park in question is Target’s at their store on Overton Ridge in Fort Worth. As car parks go it’s pretty standard, flat, wide, and with lines all over it. An unlikely place for a miracle, you might think.
One afternoon a couple of years ago I called in at Target. I parked in a corner and picked up some groceries. After stashing the groceries in the trunk and walking around to the driver’s door, I noticed something on the ground. It was shiny, and I’m remotely related to blackbirds, so I picked it up.
It was a ring. A gold ring, in fact. It had a pretty pattern on it, a random set of swirls with a smooth band either side. I wouldn’t say they were a unique set of random set of swirls, but they were a set that seemed familiar. Very familiar. Incredibly familiar. So familiar, in fact, they were exactly like the swirls on a ring I wear. My wedding ring. Only it wasn’t my ring, because I was wearing mine, but I knew someone else who had a ring with just the same swirls.
Naturally, I called that someone. Yes, she had visited Target earlier in the day. Yes, she had taken her rig off to put on hand lotion, and no, she couldn’t quite place her ring at that moment.
So for several hours my wife’s wedding ring had lain in the car park. No one else had noticed it glinting on the ground, no-one had driven over it, and when I pulled into Target, I parked in exactly the same spot my wife had chosen. That evening I returned home to put a wedding ring on my wife’s finger for the second time.
What about you? Have you ever had a sign that you’re meant to be with someone?
And, if you’re not with someone at the moment, feel free to fill us in on the reason that the hollywood-star-or-starlet-of-your-choice is really the someone for you, and I’ll see if I can put in a good word for you with Cupid.
Fabulous story, Nigel. You and your wife were obviously meant to be together.
Q: How warm-and-fuzzy does that story make me feel?
A: Very
Me? These things happen to me all the time. I lose something and then — miracle (!) — I find the item almost at random.
Usually, my sunglasses. And, I typically find them when I hit the top of my head in frustration.
I know. The Cosmos works in mysterious ways.
Hi Gloria
Glad you liked it. Yes, its a mysterious universe. Let’s keep it that way 🙂
Cheers!
Wow!
How utterly amazeballs is that? You and your wife were obviously meant to be! And meant to park in exactly the same parking spot at Target! Now that’s really two people who think as one. Been married a while, Nige?
The Universe certainly does work in mysterious ways.
Happy Valentines Day!
Hi Christine
In truth we always tend to park on one side of the car park, but even so the odds are pretty amazing. I think it’s a really good sign 🙂
I’m sure your someone has a great Valentine’s Day line up – enjoy!
Cheers!
What a great story, Nigel! You were definitely meant to be together. 🙂
By all accepted evaluation systems, Hubby and I should be completely incompatible. None of our friends thought we’d stay together. We’ve been happily married for 14 years so far…
Hi Diane
We’re both pretty different and I think that’s what makes us compatible. 14 years? That sounds pretty compatible to me 🙂
Cheers!
What an awesome story. I love it
Hi Jillian.
Glad you liked it 🙂
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Wow, Nigel – what a fab story! I love all of the coincidences. You two are truly meant to be together.
While hubby and I are soulmates, too, I actually ran over my ring with my own car. It wasn’t my wedding ring, but an opal one that hubs gave me. I couldn’t figure out where it had gotten to, until I found it smashed in my parking space later.
…we can rebuild it. We have the technology…
Yep, we got it rebuilt. I don’t use hand lotion so much any more, either! 😀
Hi Kathy
After all those coincidences I still didn’t stop to get a lottery ticket!
Ran over your own ring? Yeah, I think the lotion manufacturers are in league with jewelers. Glad you got it fixed.
Cheers!
Great story, Nigel. I’ve never lost anything. Now, where did I leave my mind? Hmmmm.
Hi David
Never lost anything? Boy, I’m your polar opposite. Bizarrely I’m getting better with age, as a child I used to lose everything.
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Wow! What an amazing story, Nigel. Just think of all the things that had to line up just perfectly in order for you to find your wife’s ring. Incredible. I guess it truly is a sign of things meant to be. 🙂
Hi Rhonda
Yes, the odds are pretty remote. I should have bought a lottery ticket on the way home 🙂 But maybe I used up my luck for the week in one go!
Cheers!
Hi Nigel.
Wonderful story.
What you described was one of the moments of life, which are worth living for.
Cheers.
P.S. You could celebrate that moment’s memory by revisiting it with your wife and then take her out somewhere nice. 😉
Hi Irene
Glad you liked it. Yes, things like that make life worth living. We often shop at Target and re-tell the story, but fear not, we will be going somewhere special later this week 🙂
Cheers!
That’s beautiful! I love this story. 🙂
Glad you liked it Piper 🙂
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Wow — that is pretty incredible. I love the universe. My husband and I are also very different, thank goodness or we’d kill each other. Our differences fill in the gaps in each other and our similarities do the rest. We just celebrated our 19 anniversary! 🙂
I loved your story.
Hi Ginger
Nineteen years – cool, congratulations. Without getting too deep, I think the differences between people are more important to making a relationship work than the similarities. Or maybe that’s because I’m weird 😉
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Oh that gave me shivers Nigel! You should bring it to my party tomorrow!
LOL! Ok, Susie. You had me at “party.”
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That’s an incredible story Nigel. I love those kinds of signs. 🙂
Thanks Coleen, hope you’re day’s a good one tomorrow!
Cheers 🙂
That is so sweet! It’s definitely a sign. What was your wife’s reaction when you told her you had found her ring?
I get regular signs that Mr. Weebles and I were meant to be together, mainly when we say the exact same thing at the exact same time. Completely random, out-of-the-blue stuff that anyone else would say, “Where the hell did that come from??” We’ll both blurt the same thing out. We just explain that we share a brain.
Hi Madame
My wife was in complete denial. She’s always misplacing her ring around the house, but a parking lot miles away was pretty hard to believe. Glad you and Mr W were meant to be together, otherwise you’d have some explaining to do! Hope you had a great non-valentines day!
Cheers 🙂
Awwwwwww!! I love this story. That’s the sweetest thing ever. And Lord knows, as the mom of a toddler, I spend TONS of time in the Target parking lot. 🙂
LOL Jenny. Yes, given the amount of time we too seem to spend in Target (and its parking lot) I guess the chances do seem a bit more probable 🙂 Hope you had a great day.
Cheers!
Such an endearing post, Nigel. I knew my future husband was a good guy when my brand new foster dog, Zoe, who’s known to “hate men,” rushed over to him with the closest thing I’ve ever seen to a dog-hug. She still does it, only with him. We were neighbors back then, and Zoe would sit with her head in the window, just staring at his place. i swear she’s our matchmaker.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
August! You mean to say you married the boy next door?! Awesome. Now there is a post for next year! Hope you and yours had a great day yesterday 🙂
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Wow. That’s amazing. It was indeed a sign. Two signs in fact. One sign was for you and your sweety. The other sign was to tell us all to go to Target stop shopping at walmart.
Hi Holmes.
… or at least to shop at the same store!
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Hey Nigel awesome story 🙂
By-the-way Susie sent me
Hi
Glad you liked it. Good videos by the way.
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What a beautiful story! I love it.
However, what does this mean for MY marriage?!!! My husband has lost not one, but two (count ’em, TWO) wedding rings in the course of our marriage. He is currently sans ring–perhaps supposing that after 20 years together, he just LOOKS married. To be fair, my husband is that absent-minded-professor type who has also lost approximately 18 umbrellas, 11 jackets, 2 testing kits (he’s diabetic), and 1 kid (okay, just that one time, and we did find said kid). Still, maybe the love doctors above need to let me know if we’re in the safe zone, or if my inability to pull into the correct parking spot and find my husband’s lost ring (or even one of those umbrellas) is a sign from the universe that we should throw in the towel. 😉
LOL! Great story Julie 🙂
Two rings? Yeah, he’s certainly testing the universes limits … or maybe just your limits 🙂 When my wife can’t find her ring, I keep telling her she’s still married and she’s not getting out of it that easily!
I wouldn’t worry about umbrellas. You don’t buy the things as much as rent them. I’ve lost plenty in my time and it doesn’t seem to have upset my marriage.
Best of luck for a ring-filled, umbrella-filled, kid-filled year!
Cheers!
WOW talk about being in the right place at the right time, lovely story so glad it was you who found the ring.
Thanks, Lynne, I was pretty glad, too!
Cheers 🙂
Wow Nige – what a story!! Totally amazing!! 🙂