117 Ring

117 "A" Ring

Object: Cheap ring with engraved letter A

Acquired: Before I turned 10

From: I think mom got it for me?

Notes: I wore this ring for a long time. Always on my left hand (the ring finger, to be precise), and since I was learning to tell left from right then, that's how I learned to identify it; my left hand was the one with the ring.

Eventually this ring needed to be retired, but I needed to have another ring on my hand or I wouldn't know which way was which.  Eventually that was replaced with wearing a watch on my left wrist, but even now I can feel a phantom ring on my finger when I need to remember which way is left.

Also, once I ended with with a bracelet on my right wrist and nothing on my left, and I was very, very disoriented until I switched things around. Weird.