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[Ichiban]

I grew up around carpenters, masons, farmers, and the like.  Several were missing their ring finger or part of it.  Many were missing other digits from other work hazards.  A lot of them had their fingers grow around their rings, like a tree around around a fence wire.  I would take mine off when working around electricity and machinery.  Typically it would go on my keyring when I clocked in and on my finger when I clocked out. 

I suspect the our esteemed VP has none of those excuses.  Probably makes it easier when interfacing with "lobbyists" or their "representatives."

I'm sorry, did that sound cynical? 

[Timothy]

I suspect the our esteemed VP has none of those excuses.  

I also suspect he has never worked in a dangerous environment.  He is one of the poorer Government officials on record but I doubt he even mowed his own lawn while in Congress.  Now, as VP, he's set for life for doing nothing extraordinary other than his famous verbal gaffs.

[Solus]

There are several medical reasons to not wear a ring.  Several of which are very common.

There are also a ton of pratical ones as well.  I almost never wear mine.    Getting it cuaght in machinery or getting arced too it are two two that come to mine, for just safety reasons.  let alone it getting messed up.

I didn't work at jobs where wearing a ring was a hazard, but I did my share of work on my cars, building stone walls and stuff were your hands might take a bit of a beating.

After several years of marriage, I noticed my ring was nicked and scratched somewhat.  Rather than feel bad about it, I saw it as how my ring took the blows for my finger, protecting it and shielding it from them and helping me through rugged jobs.

To me it symbolized how marriage, the partnership, can protect and shield you and help you through rough times.

[Timothy]

I was 27 when I first put on my wedding ring, that was 27 years ago.  With the exception of a few years working behind the bar, it's been there ever since.  I lost the first one in 18 carat, replaced it with a cheaper version but it's held up well.

I've worked in damn near every dangerous place one could imagine at one time or another.  Now, I sit in front of a monitor all day...

Now, a necktie is another matter!  I don't even own one anymore...

 

[tt11758]

I never took mine off for the first 26-1/2 years of my marriage (except for the times when I had to stick my hand inside a 100kw FM radio transmitter).  Haven't worn it for the past year, however, since the 90 lb weight loss puts me in fear of losing it.  Once the weight stabilizes, however, I intend to have it sized, and then wear it into eternity.

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[crusader rabbit]

Mine has been on my finger since Bunny placed it there 24 years ago.  It's come off the three times I've had surgery as the docs were concerned that my fingers could swell and they didn't want to have to cut it off.  I didn't want that, either.  So, I complied with their requests.  Other than those times, I've had it off to buff and polish it on a few occasions, but like Solus,  I'm starting to like the nicks and scratches.

Looking at it I am reminded of something I was told by an old timer very early on in my marriage:  A wedding ring doesn't have to be expensive to cut off circulation--that's its job.

Crusader Rabbit

[PegLeg45]

Rings (actually, jewelry of any type) were a big NO-NO where I worked for many years. Too much machinery and electrical components in my line of work. We couldn't even wear metal-framed prescription glasses if opening/entering an electrical cabinet (they ranged from 10 volts DC to 600 volts AC).

I personally know one guy (and know of another) who had their ring fingers evacuated from their hands using only the weight and momentum of their hanging bodies. One was climbing off a scaffold, holding with his left hand, and his foot slipped. The ring got caught on one of the assembly pins and POP, off came his finger, cleanly at the joint. Same thing happened to another guy while jumping off the back of a flatbed truck with stake-pocket side-bodies. He was holding the top stake on one of the side-body panels (at the top) and when he jumped, his ring was caught on the metal frame part. Immediate case of "Digitus Gone-icus".


The first week I was married, I took mine off in the shower to get grease out from under it. I laid it on the shower shelf and I forgot to put it back on. My wife found it and went into a fit. She did calm down after I let her in on the fact that I took it off 8 1/2 hours every day at work....but I did carry it in my pocket. She wore it on a chain around her neck for the 4 weeks I was in ICU.

[Ichiban]

I know, it's what we do best.   

[tt11758]

I know, it's what we do best.   

Dude, seriously, we are one major sponsor away from being PROFESSIONAL thread drifters.   

[tombogan03884]

When I got married I was running a CNC punch press, when I reached into the tool change door during set ups or any other reason it would catch on the door latch every single time.
Even though I only did it when the machine was idle it was annoying.
But I was bad at remembering to take it off. My routine every shift was , open the door to check the tooling, snag on the latch, remove ring, begin work.