Auction Shocker.....

My moms folks went to estate auctions for years. It was a favorite thing for them to do and my brother and I loved going along with them. We had a group of auction friends, who all came with parents and grandparents like us, and had a great time running around, being silly, like kids can be.

A common purchase at these auctions were boxes of stuff. It could be the stuff from some one's junk drawer, a bunch of odds and ends, soaps and cleaners, old tin cans full of nails. You just never knew all the goodies you had until you got home and went through them. Grandma loved costume jewelry, so she usually grabbed up boxes of that sort of stuff. When we went through grandma and grandpa's house after they had passed away, we got to make new boxes of stuff that the auctioneer who had probably sold most of it to them got to sell to someone else. Mom did keep most of her jewelry, and through the years has sorted through it and given different items to the kids.

Kathryn recently came home with a few new items. She took one ring to school yesterday morning and when she got in the car in the afternoon, she was grumbling about the ring. She told me the ring had a picture of a naked lady inside it. Mind you, this ring didn't look like anything special, a simple clear stone on a ring of very worn metal with a bent band. I said "what are you talking about?" She explained that there is a little hole on the side of the ring that when you look inside you can see a naked lady. I asked for the ring, looked inside the hole and OH MY, she was right! It was a peepshow ring. I had no idea such things even existed!! Of course the other two in the car instantly caught on to what was up and requested an opportunity to look and see as well. NO! was my answer. We headed to moms for an afternoon visit, and I sent all the kids off to various places in the house and then showed mom the offending object. She was equally as shocked, having no idea what she had sent home with Kathryn. Needless to say, the ring is gone and the shock has begun to wear off.