James Ng wanted to surprise his girlfriend by proposing on a hot-air balloon ride when he got a surprise of his own: he dropped the ring 500 feet into the woods!
James Ng was set to propose to his fiancée on a hot-air balloon ride when the symbol of their love fell 500 feet into the woods.
Ng, 26, pastor of New Mercies Community Church, had hidden the 1-carat diamond ring in a box in his camera case. As they floated along on Oct. 29, the case slipped from his hands.
"I just watched it tumble, and it hit a tree and spun around, and the stuff fluttered out of it," Ng recalls. "And I just put my head down on the side of the balloon, and I was just — I just couldn't believe I'd just done that.
"My first thought was don't tell her ... and buy another ring — which it took me forever to afford the one I had," Ng says. But Sonya Bostic, 27, caught on. "When he reacted the way he did, that's when I knew," she says. "Wait a second! My ring's in there!"
But the story has a happy ending. Dick Russ and Rob Jennings of USA Today have the story: Link
"I just kept looking at it," Bostic says. "It was so beautiful. It was perfect. It was everything that I wanted. And that we found it, and I never thought in a million years we'd find it, that was truly God. It really was."
USA Today is not the subject in that sentence.
Meanwhile, a blind diamond mine worker, age 12, fell down a shaft and starved to death because it would cost too much to rescue her.
For his wife's sake, I hope he's not as clumsy in bed.
Sex before marriage weeds out the no hopers.
Just goes to show how popular gods are around here. Oh look, a random deity has coincidently left a penny on the ground beside my chair, how fortunate of me. If anything is to blame it would be love since it makes guys do stupid things like propose to a woman on a windy bridge, or 500 feet above the ground without thinking of the consequences of mishandling an expensive piece of metal due to shaky anxious hands.
Did he renew the vows and reintroduce all the lost socks to their widowed counterparts?