My Father's Ring

My Father's Ring

In January 2013, the relation with my wife had become impossible and I choose to divorce.

At first, she started to ask for huge financial demands to sign the divorce. But after a few discussions and pointing her to the facts that I had prove of her gambling addiction and that she was failing to be a good wife, she agreed to sign the divorce papers without a court case. I let her take her belongings and she left the conjugal home.

A few weeks after we divorce, she called me to tell me something "very important".

Since 2008, when I found out that she was constantly "stealing" money out of my pockets while I was sleeping, I decided to buy a small safe where I used to keep my valuables and my purse before sleeping. But somehow, she had managed to open the safe and steal a ring that I had been keeping for many years without being noticed. Later I found out that she had instructed my daughter to watch closely which numbers I was dialing to open the safe.

My ex-wife called me to tell me that she had pledged the "ring of my father" at the gold shop (pawn shop) and needed to pay monthly interest. If the gold shop did not receive the monthly interest, they would keep the ring.

I was thinking about her words, but I had no "ring of my father".
My father was never wearing any jewelry.
But anyhow, the ring was stolen out of my safe and thus was belonging to someone I knew.

I asked my ex-wife to go to the gold shop the next day at 10am and I would be waiting for her. The gold shop was located near my house.

The next day, I brought my daughter to her school and went to the gold shop.
About 10 am. my ex-wife came to the gold shop and asked for the ring. The owner of the shop took a plastic bag with the ring and a paper showing the money she got for the ring. Inside the plastic bag was the engagement ring with my first wife, not my "fathers ring".

As usual in these gold shops, a policeman was in the gold shop too.

I called the policeman and asked him to arrest the owner of the gold shop on the fact that he had pledged a ring that was stolen from me. Inside the ring, my name and the name of my first wife was engraved. Besides that, the ring was in 18 karat gold which had no real value for a gold shop in Thailand. In Thailand, only 24 karat gold jewels are sold.

The owner started to fear a legal claim and gave me the ring back. He said sorry and he would settle the case with my ex-wife. I left the gold shop with the ring and went home.

Later, I was informed that my wife was forced by the owner of the gold shop to get a loan from a friend and pay him back or she would end up with a few broken bones in the hospital.

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