celticnoodle
Yes, you are correct here, Nevermore. I should not have advised the above. However, Muser, if you do strongly feel like one of your parents did take the ring, why don't you instead just come right out and ask them point blank if they happened to have found your ring and have it in their possession?Nevermore said:I'm gonna warn you Muser.
If the ring is found in his room, and he finds it's not there anymore or he sees you wearing it, it'll be a really awkward and unpleasant situation, even though it is your ring and it's totally a mean and ridiculous way to teach lessons.
My parents would regularly go through my room, determine it was messy or if they were just angry at me, they'd go take things out to throw. So long as they believed it wasn't vital to my existence, they'd throw things out from books to my dear, cheap but very sorely missed guitar. I honestly stopped caring because if my room was messy or super tidy they were going to go through it and throw what they didn't like no matter what. But since garbage day isn't everyday sometimes I'd have luck finding things taken from me in the garage or in places they kept their own things.
I once found my old diary hidden in my parents room and I took it back and found it back in their room and a not so nice message written about my messy room. You can imagine that after I found it how I felt about my parents, there was NO WAY that things would ever be the same. This was before I lost my guitar, so before that point I honestly felt that it was my fault that I lost my non hidden things regularly. There was no way I could say that maybe I had forgotten the book somewhere, or that my parents' intentions were for the best. If you find in his room and you haven't found things of yours with him before, it's going to be real weird and unpleasant. Would he do more damage if he found out you got your ring back from where he kept it?
If only there were a way you could get it back without him realizing that you had found it and taken it back.
just wanted to add that I agree with you, Nevermore, it is a mean and ridiculous way to teach a lesson. I learned from my mother doing this, and never did that to my own daughter. I never caught my mother throwing my things out though-I think that is even worse. Parents do some crazy things though, and though they may think they are doing the right thing for us, sometimes they don't think things through. However, you (we) should learn from the first mistake and not allow it to occur again, thus not having to wonder if the parents stepped in and took it to teach us a lesson.
I think Muser, you should just ask your parents face to face about the ring.