[Jewelry making - Article 00415] - Re: [Orchid] Changing the term "semi-precious" stones

[Neilthejeweler]

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>     a little pile of green powder, and he said he stood there for about
>     ten minutes realizing it was what was left of a $10,000 (20 years
>     ago) emerald....... Just thought I'd share a good/bad story..... 

    If I may.... 

    At a low point in my career I had just taken a job at a really high
    end store. Xmas rush was just getting under way when I started. Set
    up my bench where they told me to. I dropped a carat diamond and it
    was nowhere to be found. "Good grief, new job on the line", I'm
    thinking as I tell the boss. So I pulled the bench out and
    searched...nothin. Pulled up the floor boards and moldings...nothin.
    Approached it from below in the basement..nothin. After a full day
    of angstified fruitless searching, Xmas work stackin up, I'm sitting
    there totally bummed, getting ready for the unemployment line. I'm
    looking at the big hole in the floor I have created where the bench
    was. And then there it was..perched precariously on top of a floor
    joist six inches into the wall. A veritable vision in the
    wilderness! Hallelujah Brothers and Sisters, we have found the
    promised land! 

    So I inform the boss, proud that my persistence just saved him a few
    thousand and me a job. Told him how it must have slipped between the
    openings where the raggedy baseboard was supposed to meet the floor
    in this hundred year old building. His reply.... 

    "did you happen to see the 2ct sapphire we lost there last year?" 

    DOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
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