At this particular position and time in my existence, this column’s heading is my new mantra. We have all read it claimed, “You only are living the moment.” Or “You have to get all the gusto you can.” Then there is “You only go this way the moment.” and “Live each and every day as if it is your final.” Then there is my favourite, “Pick the road much less traveled.” So now you acquired the photo of exactly where I’m coming from or should I say in which I’m intending to go quickly!
My intentions this summer time was not to disappoint any one. Gratefully I am in excellent overall health even however my existence will quickly be 70 a long time on this planet, and I certainly have no strategies of leaving this world whenever before long. Most people needs to go to heaven, but no one needs to go now, myself involved.
I have been living and performing on this spit of sand and coral located in the Gulf of Mexico considering the fact that 1994 (29 yrs if you do the math). In addition to that actuality, I also labored beforehand in the jewellery industry while residing in New England for 24 several years right before coming to Marco, so we are talking a complete of 53 decades doing my detail in the jewellery business.
So be sure to forgive me for staying redundant (here’s where the unfortunate violin solo cues in!) if some of my past or new purchasers are “quote and unquote” “Very disappointed” that I resolved to just take most of the summertime of 2023 off.
That becoming stated, I would also like to thank those of you who realize the factors for my absence. I’ll be back again when I’m good and completely ready, expending my kid’s inheritance this summer. I guarantee I’ll be back in the retail trenches total-time by October 2nd.
I have been back several moments in the store concerning my adventures for a 7 days or so to do hurt manage, only to come across out my son and daughter have all the things more than below regulate.
The only hiccups are the regular occasional summertime whack-a-doodles that someway stumbled on the island or not long ago found habitation right here, and it becomes apparent they don’t know me that well. These folks only further more influence me that this strip shopping mall was created on an ancient Calusa Indian burial floor and someway appeals to these malcontents. And speaking of malcontents…
I was (un?) the good thing is in the store last week in concerning my summertime places when a very not happy youthful girl was raking my daughter above the coals for issues regarding an engagement ring she said was purchased from us in February (It is now August, so why did it get seven months to complain?).
From my workbench in the other place I could listen to she was practically screaming at Lindsay with much more than many complaints about the ring we sold her fiancé with other shoppers overhearing this commotion. I got up and instructed her to serene down and what is the trouble? She ticked off a number of points whilst I was analyzing the ring, oddly it did not appear common to me, and I gave her the advantage of the question the ring did have some issues…the heart stone was established crooked, the prongs were all sticking straight up, and the ring was bent to an oval shape.
Some thing certainly was not appropriate. Even on my worst day, I would by no means let a ring out of my store wanting like this. I took it to my bench when she stood there fuming. I then straightened out the ring and the diamond, lowered the prongs on to the diamond, trimmed and polished them so they would no for a longer period snag. Minutes later, I handed it back to her – the ring was now looking perfect…So I assumed.
She was scrutinizing the ring as if she had been using an electron microscope she said there was a microscopic gap on a single aspect of a diamond baguette. I could not for the lifestyle of me see what she was talking about. I did not want to argue and have her start out dropping it again, so I instructed her she would now have to depart it, so I could “add some gold to it.”
Not even an hour later, she returned demanding the ring back again. My daughter defined we haven’t finished everything to it still. Give it back again to me my fiancé instructed me he did not obtain it listed here! She then grabbed the ring out of Lin’s hand and stormed out of the shop! Whaaat? Lindsay was speechless!
Not so significantly as even an apology by producing a scene in entrance of shoppers, no thank you and no present of having to pay me to repair her messed up ring that many thanks to me was no for a longer time a faulty ring!
What a class act that queen of Whackadoodleville was!
I’m tagging up on island 2nd foundation suitable now. I’ll soon be heading back to Europe in a handful of times. I have a couple of additional disagreeable experiences I could speak about listed here, but I’d alternatively not go digging up not long ago buried bones correct now! I’m off all over again to my pleased area. Mallorca, Spain, awaits me!
Delight in the rest of your summer time!
Richard Alan is a designer/goldsmith and proprietor of The Harbor Goldsmith, Marco’s island jeweler because 1994. He welcomes your issues and opinions about “All That Glitters,” www.harborgoldsmith.com.
