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[gothicoldbat]

Just when I think I've become jaded enough to not be fazed by this place, someone has to go above and beyond to astound me with their lack of sense. I was talking to one of my friends named Melinda. The mailman walks in. I tell him he's got a very important package to deliver to me. We joke around for a bit, mailman leaves. Melinda asks me what I'm expecting and I tell her about the ring. While we are talking, the SAME stupid cow who pissed me off about olives awhile back waddles in. We go on talking. I'm trying to describe the ring to her. She asks me how big the main stone is. I say "It's 7.5 carats but I have no idea how big that is since carat is a weight measurement and not volume or area so it means nothing to me." Melinda starts to laugh because she knows how impaired I am in that regard. Stupid olive eater butts in, and rather loudly. She says, "You ain't gots no 7 carats diamond! You ain't no movie star or no *insert unintelligible word here*, shit you gots cubit zircona not no damn diamond." We both look at her in disbelief. I tell her that first, we weren't talking to her and second, nobody said anything about a damn diamond. I think diamonds are butt ugly. Anyway, she opened her mouth as if she were going to say something else but Melinda gave her the look. The one that leaves no doubt that if one more word is uttered, bodily harm will likely follow. She mumbled something and waddled back out of the store. We just looked at each other with the WTF? face.

I told Mark about the stupid olive woman's comments. I said I couldn't even guess how much a 7 carat diamond would cost. So for shits and giggles I looked on the internet. I couldn't find anything that large (single stone) in the short time I spent looking. My attention span isn't very long and well, I'm not that interested in finding such a rock. I did find this peach of a ring though, but it's only 3 carats. And at  $65K - they can keep it!