My grandmother was something. She bought herself this diamond without telling my grandfather. Apparently he had just gone to Brazil for work, and she begged him to bring her home an emerald ring. And when he came back, he handed her a jewelry box that had a keychain with a plastic emerald hanging off it. So she went to buy herself an emerald ring in spite of him. Then decided that green didn’t go with her skin tone and bought the diamond. She would wear it on the inside of her hand when he was around. My mom and dad were both there having dinner when my grandpa found out. She was serving him food, and he grabbed her hand, she had forgotten to turn the ring around! Asked her where the hell that came from. And she said she had earned it for herself.”
