Happiness is...

why would she take off the ring @noromance ?

@unclewilbur I have a lot of stories but happy endings is not my thing.

She went through a phase of taking the rings off to wash up. Still does on occasion.

We lost the platinum wedding band down the central console of the car when she’d take them off to put on hand cream. 

why would she take off the ring @noromance ?

@gano 

I think I know what you mean, but you’re still alive.

Since the subject is "Happiness is" it helps to find a positive ending for a disastrous story.

For example, when I was about 6 or 7 years old we had a serious car accident. We slid off an icy road, and down a long hill toward a big lake where we probably would have drowned in ice water. But instead, we bounced off a tree, and crashed into a nice lake cottage. We went all the way through the wall, and were looking at a man and his wife, in bed on the other side of the room! 

They were shocked upright in bed with jaws hanging wide open, and horror in their eyes. And we were looking back at them with the same horror!

So, in this story, happiness is narrowly avoiding a drowning death, by bouncing off a tree, crashing into a house, and meeting a nice couple in bed on the other side of the room!

PS... Just in case these stories seem hard to believe, I promise they are all completely true. I’m pretty sure I’ve had a very unusual life! 

@unclewilbur your stories are believable and amazing. And I agree, if I survived it, it's not sad overall, and has an uplifting angle :) Just discussing it makes me feel lucky.