If something you flushed down the toilet showed up again 10 years later, you may not exactly be thrilled. Unless, of course, it was a priceless engagement ring.
Luckily for Carol Oram, that’s exactly what it was.
According to CBS News, Michigan company Titan Plumbing had responded to an emergency call when they discovered an engagement ring. After putting a photo of the ring on social media, they were contacted by a woman named Sue, who recalled a customer at her place of employment who’d accidentally dropped their ring down the toilet.
“Sue and this customer tried to fish it out themselves,” says Titan Plumbing owner Greg Johnson. “They got big rubber gloves, and they were reaching in the toilet trying to get this ring out, and it was gone.”
Sue then contacted the customer, who she remembered was Oram.
“She finally came in and saw the ring and said, ‘It looks like mine,'” says Titan Plumbing general manager Jason Matznick. “She had original paperwork from 1965. She had been married with her husband for like 60 years.”
Oram took the ring to local jeweler to be cleaned, and it was good as new.
“She put it on; she was crying,” says Matznick. “It was cute.”